250 BRITISH FUNGI 



species have the cap and stem bristhng with erect scales, but in 

 the majority the cap is coarsely fibrillose, sometimes silky. 



Most species are small ; all grow on the ground, mostl}' in woods. 

 None are edible. 



Hebeloma 



Medium-sized fungi, growing on the ground in woods. The 

 colours are for the most part dingy ; several species have a very 

 impleasant smell. The genus is closely allied to Inocyhe, differing 

 more especially in the cuticle of the cap being more or less viscid 

 and never coarsely fibrillose or broken up into scales. 



Hebeloma agrees in structure with Tricholoma in the Leucosporeae, 

 with Entoloma in the Kliodosporea^, and with HypJioloma in the 

 Melanosporeae. 



Naucoria 



The species are mostly small, and usually of a brownish colour, 

 growing on the ground among grass, moss, etc. The species are very 

 variable amongst themselves, but all agree in the following features. 

 Spores ferruginous ; stem cartilaginous ; edge of the cap incurved 

 when young. The last character distinguishes the present genus 

 from Galera, in which the edge of the cap is straight when young. 



Naucoria agrees in structure with Collyhia amongst the Leuco- 

 sporeae, and with Leptonia in the Rhodosporeje. 



Galera 



Generally small, slender, fragile fungi, growing on the ground. 

 Cap campanulate at first, and often remaining permanently so, 

 smooth ; stem elongated and slender, hollow. Corresponding in 

 structure to Mycena in tlie Leucosporeae, and to Nolanea in the 

 Rhodosporere. 



Tubaria 



Small fungi, characterized by having decurrent gills and a 

 cartilaginous stem. The only other genus having decurrent gills in 

 the Ochrosporece is Flammula, which differs in having the stem 

 fibrous externally. In some species the gills are obviously decurrent, 

 in others only very slightly so, being, technically, broadly adnate, 

 with a decurrent tooth. The colour is usually yellowish brown. 

 Some species grow on chips; fallen branches, etc., others are only 

 met with in swamps among Sphagnum, etc. 



Flammula 

 A large genus, containing many showy species, yellow and orange 

 being the prevaihng colours. In some species the cap is viscid or 

 glutinous, and scaly, as is also the stem up to the ring-zone. The 

 characters of the genus are not all that could be desired, and are 

 much in need of a thorough revision, after careful study, both in the 

 field and at home, aided by a microscope. As at present constituted, 

 the gills are adnate in some species, decurrent in others. 



