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yellow-green or yellowish-honey-colour, then pale, hygro- 

 phanous, somewhat membranaceous, sometimes slightly 

 floccose or fuscous -squamulose, slightly firm, campanulate, 

 then convex or wholly reflexed, pellucid, striate, smooth, 

 opaque, then slightly silky ; stem stuffed, rigid, more or 

 less mealy, same colour as pileus, or fuscous ; gills adnexed, 

 separating, ventricose, distant, pallid, saffron-yellow. 

 In woods and gardens. 



*** Gills shining ir/iite, then rosy^ hjjgrophanous. 



516. A. (Nolanea) pieeus, Kalch. : pileus black, umber 

 when dry, somewhat membranaceous, conical, then cam- 

 panulate, papillate, smooth ; stem tistulose, somewhat 

 tough, short, even, pruinose, same colour as pileus ; gills 

 emarginate, decurrent, with a small tooth, ventricose, some- 

 what distant, white, then flesh-colour. 



In grassy places. Odour of cucumber or fishy. 

 This is possibly a form of A. pisciodoriis, and both may 

 be the same with A. cucumis. 



517. A. (Nolanea) infula, Fr. : pileus \-\h in., fawn, 

 fuliginous, then dull livid, shining, membranaceous, pliant, 

 conical, or campanulate, often repand and irregular, centre 

 at length depressed, polished ; stem somewhat fistulose, 

 cartilaginous, very tough, striate, polished, naked, same 

 colour as pileus, pubescent, with mycelium at base ; gills 

 adnexed, separating-free, thin, narrow, crowded, shining- 

 white. 



On lawns. 



Var. versiformis; pileus \ in., densely striate, umbonate, 

 papillate, sometimes infundibuliform. 

 On burnt ground. 



