Entoloma AGARICACE^E 



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480. E. Bloxamii Sacc. (after the Rev. A. Bloxam) a b c. 



P. convex, umbonate or papillate, waved, splitting, dull dark 

 purple. St. solid, lighter than P. G. adnexed, pale salmon. 



Downs and exposed pastures. Sept.-Nov. 4! X 2| x in. Compare 

 482*. 



480a. E. Farrahii Mass. & Crossl. (after Mr. John Farrah) a. 



P. cylindrico-ovate, then campanulate and somewhat repand, 

 umbonate, smooth, fibrilloso-silky, blackish-blue ; marg. pallid. 

 6 1 /. solid, ventricose, glabrous, colour as P. with a white 

 base. G. sinuato-adnexed, broad, ventricose, somewhat distant, 

 salmon-colour. 



Gregarious. Taste mild ; odour none. Amongst short grass. 2j x 2j x f in. 

 Differs from its allies in its smooth, elliptical spores. 



481. E. ardosiaeum Que"l. (from its slate-coloured pileus ; ardosia, a 



slate) a c. 



P. convex, steel-blue, shaded greenish, brownish or purplish. 

 St. hollow, steel-blue, white at base. G. free, grey then 

 salmon. Flesh dull pale purplish. 



Odour none. Meadows, pastures, moist grassy places and under pines. 

 3f X 4 X 3^ in. Might be mistaken for one of the Pratelli as 802. 



482. E. liqueseens Sacc. (from the gills becoming liquescent) a b. 



P. campanulate, broadly subumbonate, ochreous ; mid. sienna. 

 St. hollow, white. G. free, crowded, pale slate. 



Gregarious. Under trees. April. 2f X 2 x in. Deliquescent like a 

 Coprinus, which character with the dull pink spores and time of growth 

 points to Bolbitius. Resembles one of the Pratelli. 



482a. E. madidum Gill, (from the moist pileus ; madidus, moist) a b. 

 P. campanulate, convex, obtuse, even, glabrous, moist, often 

 viscid in rainy weather, shining when dry, not hygrophanous ; 

 when young blackish-violet, purple-slate, dull smalt or dull 

 deep cobalt ; sooty when old ; mid. umber and whitish-yellow ; 

 marg. thin, inflexed, substriate. St. hollow, sometimes solid, 

 fleshy-fibrous, slightly attenuate upwards, fibrillose, apex naked, 

 colour as P., base whitish. G. slightly adnexed. ventricose, 

 greyish-white to salmon. Flesh white. 



Suspected poisonous. Odour strong, pungent, like 1341. Amongst moss, 

 leaf -heaps, etc. 2% X 2 X in. Much like 480 in appearance. 



483. E. ameides Sacc. (from its odour of starch) a b. 



P. convex, broadly subumbonate, pale reddish-grey ; mid. darker. 



St. stuffed, paler than P. or almost white. G. emarginato- 



adnexed, pale pink. 

 Tasteless; odour of hay, apples, meal, linseed, orange-flower-water and 



starch. Pastures. Sept.-Nov. 2X2^xm. Changing to yellowish 



or reddish when bruised. Must not be mistaken for 1222. 



