1 IG OUTLINES OF MIITISH FUNGOLOGY. 



pact, at first convex, regular, at length depressed, Avaved, 

 pruinose, dry; stem solid, ventricose, naked, striate; gills 

 deeply decurrent, rather distant, white, then flesh-coloured. — 

 (Plate 7, fig. 7.)—Huss. ii. /. 17. 



In "woods. White, or slightly cinereous. Smell like that 

 of new meal. Esculent. 



230. A. (Clitopilus) mundulus, Lascli. ; pileus fleshy, thin, 

 tough, piano-depressed, unequal, polished, dry; stem stuffed, 

 slender, floccnlose, thickened at either end, at length black 

 ■within; gills deeply decurrent, very crowded, narrow, pallid. 

 — A. nigrescens, Lasch, n. 521. 



In woods. Scotland, Klotzsch. King's ClifFe. A. carneo- 

 albus, With., is very doubtful. 



Subgenus 11. Leptonia. — Stem witli a cartilaginous bark. 

 Margin of pileus at first incurved ; gills separating from tlie 

 stem. 



231. A. (Leptonia) lampropus, Fr. ; pileus slightly fleshy, 

 obtuse, convex, flattened, not striate, at length dcj^ressed, 

 squamnlose, broken np into flocci; stem subfistulose, even, 

 unspotted, steel-violet ; gills adnate, ventricose, at first dirty- 

 white. 



In pastures. Not uncommon. Pileus 1^ inch across. 



232. A. (Leptonia) serrulatus, P. ; pileus earnoso-mcm- 

 branaccons, hemispherical, then expanded, umbilicate, sub- 

 squamose, stem fistulose, smooth, black, dotted above, gills 

 adnate, separating, broad at first, bluish, then greyish flesh- 

 coloured, edge black, finely notched. 



In woods. Rare. Wothorpe, etc. Stem sometimes grey. 

 Easily distinguished by the serrate edge of the gills. 



233. A. (Leptonia) evichrous, P. ; pileus slightly fleshy, 

 carapanulate, then convex, obtuse, squamuloso-fibrillose ; stem 



