INOCYBE. 185 



♦* LACEEI. 



^ Inocybe pyriodora. Pers. 



Pileus 2-3 across, disc fleshy, the remainder thin, ovate 

 then cainpanulate, obtuse, disc very scaly, the rest everywhere 

 torn into fibrils, smoky or ochraceo-pallid, reddish when 

 young ; margin often incurved and wavy ; flesh becoming 

 reddish ; gills at flrst adnate, then somewhat emarginate, 

 crowded, thin, linear, often crisped, at first whitish then 

 brownish, margin whitish; stem 3-6 in. long, ^-1 in. thicks 

 almost equal, or attenuated at the base, often curved, ex- 

 ternally very fibrillose, pallid, apex powdered with white 

 meal, solid, internally fibrous and soft, reddish ; fragile ; 

 spores pip-shaped, smooth, 10 X 6 /n. 



Agaricus (Inocyhe) pyriodorus, Pers., Syn., p. 300 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk, p. 152 ; Cke., lUustr., pi. 472. 



In woods. 



Smell pleasant, resembling pears or violets. Pileus fuscous, 

 then pallid ochraceous, fiesh with a red tinge. (Fries.) 



Pileus 1^-3 in. broad, broadly and strongly umbonate, the 

 margia at length a little turned up, fibrilloso-squamulose ; 

 fleshy, pallid umber. Gills adnexed, ventricose, pale. Stem 

 2-3 in. high, 4 lines thick (solid in my specimens and in 

 BuUiard's figure), fibrillose, white, when bruised somewhat 

 of the same hue as the pileus. Veil very fugacious. Odour 

 penetrating, like that of rotten pears or Hyacinthus racemosus, 

 (Berk.) 



Inocybe incamata. Bres. 

 Pileus 2-3 in. across, flesh rather thick, convex, campanu- 

 lated, then expanded and gibbous or broadly umbonate-, 

 fibrillose then squamulose, margin fimbriate, yellowish then 

 rufescent or tinged with flesh-colour ; stem solid, about 2 in. 

 long, 4r-5 lines thick, attenuated and somewhat rooting at 

 the base, rather fibrillose, rosy flesh-colour, white and mealy 

 at the apex ; flesh of the pileus white, becoming deep red 

 when broken ; gills sinuate, adnexed, crowded, broad, rather 

 fringed at the margin ; whitish then greyish-cinnamon, at 

 length spotted with red, or wholly rufescent ; spores elliptic- 

 ovate, 10 X C //,. 



