270 BRITISH FUNGI 



ceous, sometimes slightly wavy, 2-3 in. long (spores pip-shaped, 

 8-10x4-5 fj. ; cystidia narrowly ventricose). 



In beech woods, etc. 



/. obscura. — Cap campanulato-convex, radially fibrillose, disc 

 squamulose, brown with more or less of a violet tinge, up to i in. 

 across ; gills crowded, olive, then brownish ; stem elongated, often 

 wavy, fibrillose, coloured like the cap, 2-3 in. long (spores pip- 

 shaped, 8-10x5-6 i>. ; C3'stidia ventricose, abundant). 



Smell strong. Flesh tinged lilac at ape.x of stem, as in /. cin- 

 cinnata. 



On the ground in damp pine woods. 



/. lacera. — Cap convex, then expanded, and often obtusely um- 

 bonate, smooth at first, then scaly, the scales soon spreading, 

 brownish, then mouse-colour, about i in. across ; gills sinuate, 

 adnexed, pinkish, then mouse-colour ; stem slender, short, covered 

 with brown, fibrillose flecks, paler than the cap, i-i| in. long 

 (spores pip-shaped, 9-11 x 5-5-5 /x ; cystidia ventricose, abundant). 



Differs from /. scaber and /. niutica by the reddish flesh of the stem. 



On the ground in pine and mixed woods. 



/. carpta. — Cap convex, becoming almost plane, usually at length 

 depressed at the disc, everywhere densely fibrillose, the fibrils 

 sometimes collected into erect squamules which are somewhat 

 concentrically arranged in old specimens, dusky brown, up to i in. 

 across ; gills adnate, then separating from the stem, broad, becom- 

 ing dark brown ; stem hollow, covered with a spreading fibrillose 

 woolliness, paler than the cap, i-|-2 in. long (spores pip-shaped, 

 8-10 X 5-6 fi : cystidia ventricose, often slightly curved, numerous). 



On the ground in woods, etc. 



/. hystrix. — Cap convex, then expanded, orbicular, dull brown 

 to mouse-colour, covered with spreading recurved scales \\hich 

 become fibrillose towards the margin, 2-3 in. across ; gills adnate, 

 crowded, broadish, greyish, then brown ; stem solid, coloured like 

 the cap, with spreading recurved concentric rings of scales up to a 

 distinctly marked annular zone, palhd and smooth above, 2^—3-3- in. 

 long (spores pip-shaped, 11-13x5-6 /x ; cystidia ventricose). 



Flesh white. No tinge of blue or green on the stem. Presents 

 the general appearance of a small specimen of PlioIioUi sqiiaryosa. 

 Sometimes rather small. 



On the ground in woods. 



/. incarnata. — Cap bell-shaped, then expanded and broadly 

 umbonate, fibrillose, then squamulose, yellowish red to flesh-colour, 

 edge fimbriate, 2-3 i in. across ; gills broad, greyish cinnamon, then 

 spotted with red or entirely reddish, edge paler, fimbriate ; stem 

 solid, somewhat rooting, slightly fibrillose, reddish, apex white 

 and scurfy, flesh red from the first, 2\-^\ in. long (spores pip- 

 shaped, 9-10 X 6 /A ; cystidia ventricose or clavate). 



