144 OUTLINES OF BRITISH FUNGOLOGY. 



221. A. (Entoloma) ardosiacus, Bull.; brittle ; pileus slightly 

 fleshy, couvex, then expanded and depressed, even, smooth, 

 moist; stem hollow, elongated, steel-blue, attenuated from the 

 white base; gills nearly free, erowded, greyish flesh-coloured. 

 Bull t. 348. 



In moist meadows. A doubtful native, introduced on the 

 authority of Siljthorpe. 



222. A. (Entoloma) frumentaceus, Bull. ; pileus fleshy, firm, 

 rather brittle, nearly plane, dry, finely streaked ; stem streaked 

 and slightly cracked, obtuse at the base ; gills broad, eraargi- 

 nate or rounded behind, cinereous, with a reddish-yellow tinge. 

 —Bull. t. 571./. 1. 



On the ground, under a hedge. Rare. Woodnewton, Nor- 

 thamptonshire. Pileus 3^ inches across, buff, tinged with red 

 as Avell as the stem. 



223. A. (Entoloma) sericellus, Fr. ; pileus slightly fleshy, 

 convexo-plane or depressed, silky, at length squamulose ; stem 

 subfistulose, fibrillose, white, becoming pallid ; gills adnate, se- 

 ceding, slightly distant, white, then flesh-coloured. 



In woods. Not uncommon. Resembling Persoon's figure, 

 Ic. t. 6. f. 2, quoted doubtfully by Pries, but not exceeding 

 an inch in diameter. Pileus and stem white. Stem solid or 

 densely stuffed, never fistulose in the British plant. 



** Pileus hjfjrophanoiis. 



224'. A. (Entoloma) clypeatus, L. ; pileus slightly fleshy, 

 campanulate, then expanded, umbonate, somewhat virgate, 

 smooth, hygrophanous ; stem stuffed, attenuated, fibrillose, 

 becoming pallid ; gills rounded behind, adncxcd, seceding, 

 serrulate, of a dirty flesh-colour. — Huss. ii. t. 42. 



In gardens, etc. Not uncommon. Pileus 4 inches or more 

 across. 



