FUNGI OF ICELAND at 
Cap c. 3 cm broad, convex or plano-convex with a very conspicuous 
umbo, at first crisped-squamulose below the even summit, then splitting 
deeply down into the flesh, ground colour brown (h 2) or yellowish 
brown (e 3), but as a rule with a greyish tinge owing to the coating. 
Stipe cylindrical or somewhat dilated at base, internally brown, fuscous 
Fig. 6. 
Inocybe hirtella. 
Fig. 7. 
Sterile cells, cystidia and 
Inocybe lacera. 
spores X 500. 
Cystidia and spores X 500. 
externally, covered with fuscous fibrils and scurf, apex not or only indi- 
stinctly mealy. — Gills moderately crowded, broad, ventricose, obtusely 
adnate, colour about k 4. — Spores smooth, brown, irregular in form, 
mostly shaped like a projectile, 1- or 2-guttulate, 13—16 X 6—7.5 u. — 
Cystidia at the edge and on the face of the gills flaskshaped with coro- 
nate apex or fusiform with an even and rounded apex, 48—60*15—22 u. 
514. I. abjecta Karsten, Hattsvampar I, p. 456. 
Hallormstadir. — Among moss on peaty soil with an admixture 
of sand. 
Pileus 15—18 mm broad, plano-convex, umbonate, radiately fibrillose, 
at length splitting at margin, brown (h 3 to g 7), covered with a thin lace- 
rate-fibrose white layer forming greyish-white hair- 
like scales at margin. — Stipe cylindrical, 4—5 cm 
high, 1—2mm thick, somewhat flexuose, firm, stuffed, PP 
floccose, pale reddish-brown (k 2 to g 6). — Gills Q 
distant, anteriorly 3 mm broad, tapering towards the © @ 
stipe, emarginate, margin denticulate, pale reddish- 42) 
brown (k1 to j1). — Spores brown, smooth, pip- Fig. 8 
shaped, 1-guttulate, 8—9.5%5—6 uw. — Cystidia both pe 
on the face and at the edge of gills flaskshaped Inocybe abjecta 
with obtuse more or less coronate apex. At edge Sterile cells, Cystidia 
of gills also shortly clavate cells. and spores, X 500. 
515. I. maculata Boudier, Société botanique de France, 1885, p. 282. 
Lava fields (Rhaun) near the south end of Myvatn, Laxärdalur, Rey- 
kjadalur, sandy meadows near Ljösavatn, littoral pasture near Akureyri 
[P. L.]. 
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