HYPHOLOMA. SQS 



when dry truly rugulose, rather atomate, ochraceous hecom- 

 ing pale. Gills subadnate, crowded, dry, white then flesh- 

 colour, at length brown. (Fries.) 



Hypholoma catarius. Fr. 



Pileus ^-f in. across, flesh thin, hemispherical, then 

 expanded, even, glabrous, hygrophanous, ochraceous, becom- 

 ing paler when dry ; gills adnate, narrow, rather crowded,, 

 whitish then brown; stem 1-1|^ iu. long, 1-1| line thick,, 

 equal, white, rather shining, base incrassated and covered 

 with white floocose down, apex striate, hollow ; ring superior, 

 fugacious, often attached in fragments to the margin of the- 

 pileus ; spores eUiptic-oblong, 6 x 3 /a. 



Agaricus (^Hypholoma) catarius, Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 29ff;. 

 Cke., Illustr., pi. 1176 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 337. 



Agaricus felinus, Passerini (not of Persoon). 



On the ground amongst grass. 



Gregarious, subcaespitose, ochraceous, pileus scarcely 1 in> 

 diameter. Stem about li in. long. Spores 6 X 3 jtt. 

 (Cooke.) 



Hypholoma leucotephrum. B. & Br. 



Tufted ; pileus 2-3 in. across, at first pallid, subcampanu- 

 late, rugose, then convexo-expanded and whitish ; gills 

 narrow, 1 J line broad, slightly adnate, greyish- white, grey,, 

 then blackish ; stem 3-4 in. high, ^ in. thick, silky-fibrous 

 below, apex striate or sulcato-striate, fistulose, ring ample, 

 here and there appendiculate from margin of pileus ; spores 

 purple-brown, 10 X 6 /*. 



Agaricus (^Hypholoma') leucotephrus, B. & Br., Ann. Soi. Nat.,- 

 n. 1266; Cke., Pllustr., t. 548. 



In large masses at the base of ash-trees. This is clearly 

 different from A. Gandolleanus and A. appendiculatus. The 

 pileus is not of a rich brown when young, nor are the gills- 

 when old at all brown. (B. & Br.) 



Hypholoma egenulus. B. & Br. 

 Solitary. Pileus IJ in. across, hemispherical then ex- 

 panded, umbonate, watery white, when dry snow-white, 

 not decidedly rugose or atomate, quite smooth as if gummed,, 

 margin finely striate, appendiculate; gills slightly ventri- 

 cose, adnate with a decurrent tooth, rather distant, purplish- 



