168 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



bay-cinnamon wlien moist, oohraceous when dry, hygro- 

 phanous; gills adnate, then separating from the stem, 

 crowded, cinnamon ; stem about 1 in. long, 1 line thick, 

 fibrillose, brownish-cinnamon, apex with scurfy squamules. 



Agarieus conspersus, Pers., Ic. Descr., t. 12, f. 3 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 181 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 512a. 



On the ground, amongst leaves, sphagnum, &c. 



The gills are dark at every stage. Gregarious, fragile. 

 In swamps a remarkable form occurs, 2-3 times as large as 

 the ordinary form, stem lon<i;, twisted, umber, white and 

 downy at the base, pileus umbonate, l^ in. broad, brownish- 

 rufescent, gills broader. (Fries.) 



Naucoria escharoides. Fr. 



Pileus ^-§ in. across, flesh thin, white, conico-convex then 

 expanded, obtuse, scurfy or squamulose, tan-colour then 

 whitish, disc becoming brownish ; gills adnexed, with a 

 deourrent tooth, at length emarginate, broad, lax, ventricose, 

 pallid- tan then somewhat cinnamon ; stem 1-2^ in. long, 

 fragile, hollow, flexuous adpressedly fibrillose, pallid then 

 fuscous, apex rather pruinose ; spores elliptic-oblong, 14 x 7 /i. 



Agarieus (Naucoria) escharoides, Fries, Syst. Myc, i. p. 260 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 182 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 512b. 



On naked ground, &c. 



Gregarious, subcaespitose ; fragile; pileus pale from the 

 first, whitish-tan, disc and stem at length becoming brownish. 

 Gills becoming emarginate, lax, nearly free, variable in 

 colour. (Fries.) 



Pileus campanulate, obtuse, slightly fleshy, umbonate or 

 umbilicate, sometimes plane, hygrophanous, innato-squamu- 

 lose, often venulose, tawny at length pallid ; veil white, 

 evanescent ; stem flexuous nearly equal, clothed with white 

 fibrils, pale, ringless, fistulose ; gills broad, bright cinnamon, 

 distant, fixed, acute behind, at length seceding. Brittle. 

 Spores pure ochre, not peroxidate. (Berk. & Broome.). 



*** Fileus not scaly, silky or atomate. 



Naucoria carpophila. Fr. 

 Pileus 1-3 lines broad, somewhat membranaceous, convex, 

 obtuse, hygrophanous, pale tan when moist, pallid or whitish 



