,494 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



and the larger spores. The pileus is not in the least scaly. 

 Flesh becoming slightly tinged yellow when broken. Smell 

 none, taste pleasant, 



Polystictus zonatus. Fries. 



Pileus horizontal, more or less imbricated, rigid, flesh 

 rather thick, tuberculose and gibbous behind, convex, velvety 

 or sometimes almost strigose, somewhat zoned and banded 

 ■with various colours, opaque, margin -whitish ; pores short, 

 angularly rounded, obtuse, whitish, small ; spores elliptical, 

 7-9 X 3-4 /i. 



Polystictus zonatus, Fries, Syst. Myc, i. p. 368. 



On trunks. 



Pileus lJ-3 in. across; pores about J mm. across. Some- 

 what resembling P. versicolor in the colour and zoning of the 

 pileus, but differs in being'opaque and without a silky sheen, 

 and in being altogether thicker, and tuberculose or gibbous, 

 and. not depressed behind. 



(To follow P. velutinus, vol. i. p. 214). 



Entoloma porphyrophaeum. Fr. 



Pileus 2J-3| in. across, flesh rather thin, cracking ; cam- 

 panulate, soon expanded, umbonate, sooty-brown, not hygro-. 

 phanous, but becoming paler and mouse-colour when dry, 

 very opaque in every condition, even and almost glabrous ; 

 stem almost 3 in. long, 4-5 lines thick at the incrassated 

 base, solid, entirely fibrous and readily breaking up into 

 fibres, equally attenuated upwards, soft, naked, but un- 

 polished, opaque sooty purple, base with white down ; gills 

 truncate behind, almost free, rather distant, 2-3 lines broad, 

 ventricose, distinct, greyish- white at first, then reddish-grey 

 from the rosy spores ; spores irregularly nodulose, salmon 

 colour, 8-9 X 6 /;t. 



Agarieus (Entoloma) porphyropliaeus. Fries, Monogr., i. 

 p. 473 ; Fries, Icones, pi. 93, fig. 1. 



Among grass. 



Large, soft and rather rigid, but at the same time brittle. 

 Margin of pileus wavy and often incised and lobed. (Fries.) 



The present species has been confounded in this country 

 with Ag..{Eni.') juhatus, Fr., as shown by Dr. Cooke in the 

 followiDg note. 



