HYPHOLOMA. 385 



expanded, 1-1|- in. broad, even, superficially silky round tte 

 margin from the veil, or squamulose, the remainder even and 

 glabrous, tawny, honey-colour, not hj'grophanous. Flesh 

 thin, paler in colour than the pileus ; giUs adnate, thin, 

 ventricose, broader (3-i lines) than in Hypholoma fascicularis, 

 crowded, at first pale straw-colour, then clouded, obsolete 

 greenish. (Fries.) 



** YISCIDI. 



Hypholoma incomptus. Massee. 



Pileus 3-4 in. across, campanulate then expanding, broadly 

 gibbous, even, viscid when moist, margin usually flexuous, 

 deep bay-brown, becoming slightly silky and orange-tawny 

 when dry ; fiesh 2 lines thick, tawny, as is also that of the 

 stem; gills slightly rounded behind, adnate, crowded, 3-4 

 lines broad, tMn, pallid then deep oUve, finally clouded 

 with purple from the spores ; stem about 3 in. long, f in. 

 thick, equal, pale above, dark ferruginous below, covered 

 with minute, spreading, ferruginous, fibrillose squamulet^, 

 mixed with piimrose-yellow tomentum, hollow, cavity small ; 

 spores purplish, obliquely elliptical, 8 X 3—5 /t. 



On stumps. Easily distinguished by the viscid, dark-bay 

 pileus, and the broad dark-olive gUls clouded with purple. 



Hypholoma oedipus. Cke. (figs. 10, 14, p. 351.) 

 Pileus i—1 in. across, glutinous, fleshy in the centre, 

 membranaceous at the margin, at first turbinate or hemi- 

 spherical, with a ragged margin (which separates from the 

 inferior, very visible, and slightly darker evanescent ring), 

 then convex, with an even margin, smooth, dull, hygro- 

 phanous, disc umber, becoming pallid at the margin, which 

 extends slightly beyond the gUls. Stem 2 in. long, 2 lines 

 thick, enlarging downwards to a bulbous base, solid, fibrillose 

 below, prurnose above the median ring. Gills at first 

 whitish, becoming umber, adnate by their entire breadth, 

 sometimes with a minute decurrent tooth, plane, with a 

 somewhat granular margin. Spores dark brown. 



Agarieus (Hypholoma) oedijms, Cke., Grevillea, vol. xiv. 

 p. 1 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 204; Cke., Hlustr., pi. 587a. 



Attached to decayed sticks or dead leaves. Solitary or in 

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