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gills (Iccurrcnt, rather distant, narrow, reddish-grey. (Plate 6, 

 fig. 8.) 



Amongst short grass on lawns, etc. Not uncommon. When 

 moist of a deep red-grey. Gills at first flesh-coloured. A 

 small species. 



164. A. (Omphalia) hepaticus, Batsch ; tough, rigid; pi- 

 lous smooth, rather shining, even ; stem at length compressed, 

 flesh-coloured, inclining to rufous ; gills distant, connected by 

 veins and forked, rather thick, pallid. — Batsch, f. 211. 



On lawns. Coed Coch, Denbighshire. Of the same colour 

 as the last, but rather different in habit, and approaching 

 A. umheUiferus. 



165. A. (Omphalia) sphagnicola, B. ; tough; pileus infun- 

 dibuliform, subcarnose, minutely squamulose, moist ; stem 

 fistulose ; gills narrow, dirty-ochraceous. 



On Sphagnum acutifoUum. Chartley Moss, Staffordshire. 

 Pileus 1-1 i inch across, of a dirty pale-ochre, obscurely stri- 

 ate ; gills thick ; edge flattish. Stem at first minutely squa- 

 mulose above, distinguished from A. Philonotis by its tough, 

 elastic substance, and other points. 



166. A. (Omphalia) Oniscus, Fr.; pileus submembrana- 

 ceous, convex, piano-depressed, remotely radiato - striate ; 

 smooth, hygrophanous, smooth when dry ; stem subfistulose, 

 firm, equal, livid or dirty-white, as well as the adnate, decur- 

 rent, straight, somewhat distant gills. — Bolt. t. 41. 



In swamps. Not observed since the time of Bolton. 



** Gills very distant., broad, and generally tliicJc ; margin at first 

 i7icurved. 



167. A. (Omphalia) muralis, Soiv. ; pileus submembrana- 

 ceous, umbilieate, radiato-striate, smooth ; brownish-rufous, 

 as well as the short tough stem ; margin crenulate ; gills de- 

 current, distant, paler. — Sow. t. 322. 



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