CLASSIFICATION 331 



Easily known by the \'iscid dark ])ay cap and olive gills 

 clouded with purple. 



On stumps. 



H. cedipus. — Cap up to i in. across, edge torn, di,sc umber, rest 

 paler ; gills whitish, then umber ; stem about 2 in. long, whitish, 

 becoming darker, enlarging downwards to a bulbous base, with a 

 median ring. 



Marked by the distinctly bulbous base of the stem. 



On sticks or dead leaves, etc. 



*** Cap streaked or silky, with adpressed fibrils. 



H. melantinnni. — Cap thin, convexo-campanulate, then expanded 

 and becoming almost plane, dusky umber sprinkled with minute 

 adpressed darker scales, becoming paler when dry, i|-2 J in. across ; 

 gills adnexed, ventricose, somewhat crowded, broadish, umber, 

 then blackish, with a violet tinge, dry ; stem fistulose, fibrillose, 

 pallid, 3-4 in. long (spores almond-shaped, minutely rough, opaque, 

 9-11X7-8/X). 



The general build and aspect of this species suggests H. velutinum, 

 from which it differs in the umber-coloured cap, which is not at all 

 fibrillose. 



First collected in this country by the members of the Mycological 

 Section of the Yorks Nat. Union, at the Sandsend Foray, Sep- 

 tember, 1910. 



On the ground among moss. 



H. storea. — Cap about 3 in. across, almost plane, umbonate, pale 

 brownish or pale dingy ochre ; gills brownish, edge white, serrulate ; 

 stem 4-5 in. long, fibrillose, pallid. 



Surface of cap broken up into adpressed longitudinal fibrils. 



On decayed beech trees, etc. 



H. hypoxanthnm. — Tufted. Cap about 2 in. across, viscid, dingy 

 white, umbo darker squamulose with black fibrils which dis- 

 appear ; gills purple-brown, edge white ; stem 2-4 in. long, curved, 

 whitish, floccosely squamulose below, base with a yellow tinge ; 

 orange-yellow mycelium. 



Known by yellow base of stem and orange-yellow mycelium. 



On rotten beech wood, etc. 



H. lacrymahundum. — Cap 2-3 in. across, convex, white, then 

 brownish with darker adpressed squamules ; gills crowded, 

 brownish purple ; stem about 2 in. long, whitish, then brownish, 

 fibrillosely squamulose. 



Cap and stem white, then brownish. Tufted. 



On the ground and on trunks. 



H. pseudostorea. — Cap convex, then expanded, at first purplish 

 brown, disc darkest, breaking up into large fibrillose purplish brown 

 scales on a pale ground, edge with fragments of veil when young ; 



