148 OUTLINES OF BRITISH FUNGOLORY. 



fibrous; gills attenuated beliiud, nearly free, ventricosc, crowded, 

 dirty-greyish. — Bolt. t. 35. 



In pastures. Not uncommon. Inodorous. Stem com- 

 pressed, splitting. 



238. A. (Nolanea) rufo-carneus, B. ; pileus submemhra- 

 naceous, hemispherical, mnbilicate, indistinctly fi])rilloso-squa- 

 mulose, red-brown ; margin striate ; stem elongated, pale 

 rufous, rather incrassated at the base ; gills adnatc, ventricosc, 

 attenuated behind, slightly connected and traversed by veins. 

 —Eng. Fl. v.pt. 2. p. 82. 



On heaths. Dorset. Pileus 1 inch across ; stem 2| inches 

 high. Taste rather bitter. 



239. A. (Nolanea) rubidus, B. ; pileus membranaceous, con- 

 vex, at length umbilicate, finely silky; stem short, thickest 

 above, solid, minutely silky; gills broad, ventricosc, adnate, 

 attenuated behind, sometimes subdecurrent, whitish, then rose- 

 coloured. — Mag. Zool. and Bot. i. t. 2./. 2. 



In stoves. Milton. Pileus one-third of an inch across ; 

 stem 1^-2 lines high, white or greyish. Smell like that of 

 new flour. 



240. A. (Nolanea) Babingtonii, Blox. ; pileus conico-cam- 

 panulate, cinereous, shining like silk, adorned with dark brown 

 subfasciculate fibres, which are free at one end ; stem equal, 

 fistulose, clothed with dark brown down, substrigose ; gills 

 ventricosc, distant, cinereous, darker at the base, adnate, glit- 

 tering with little points. — Ann. of Nat. Hist. v. xiii. ser. ii. 

 p. 400. 



Rare. Twycross, Rev. A. Bloxam. Occurs also in Penn- 

 sylvania. Pileus scarcely half an inch across. 



No species of the subgenus Eccilia has yet occurred in 

 Great Britain. 



