176 FUNGUS-FLOBA. 



tflesli is thick, very fragile wlieii thin, margin naked (except 

 in the first species. 



Young specimens are often fibrillose from the remains of 

 ithe veil, and not from the torn cuticle. 



* Gills white or pallid, not becoming spotted with rufous 

 or grey. Smell often unpleasant. 



** GUIs discoloured, becoming spotted with rufous or 

 grey. 



IV. Sericella. 



Pileus (without a distinct pellicle") slightly silky at first ; 

 ■soon almost glabrous, very dry ; not moist, viscid, hygro- 

 phanous, not distinctly scaly. Pileus somewhat thin, 

 opaque, absorbing moisture, but the flesh resembles the gills 

 in colour, and is not hygrophanous. Flesh of stem entirely 

 fibrous, a character by which the smaller species that 

 lesemble CoUybia in habit, are distinguished. 



* Gills broad, rather thick, somewhat distant, strong- 

 iscented. 



** Gills thin, crowded, narrow. Small ; inodorous. 



Series B. Pileus even, glabrous, not downy, nor scaly, 

 «ot viscid, moist in rainy weather; when quite young 

 'pruinose from the universal veil (but this character is not 

 always v ery conspicuous). Flesh soft, spongy or very thin, 

 Twatery a nd hygrophanous. 



V. Guttata.] 



Pileus fleshy, soft, fragile, marked with drop-like spots, 

 ■orrivulose; stem solid. 



Appearing in the spring, rarely obvious during the 

 .a utumn, oaespitose or growing in troops, often in circles. 



* GUIs whitish, 



** Gills discoloured, rufous or smoky grey„ 



