196 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



Tnocybe destricta. Fr. 



Pileus l|-2^ in. across, flesh thin, white; campanulato- 

 convex then expanded, umbonate, at length depressed 

 round the brownish umbo, cracked, fibrillose, then torn into 

 Kiuamules, pallid then rufescent; gills uncinately adnate, 

 crowded, thin, 2 lines broad, white then greyish-cinnamon ; 

 stem solid, soft, about 2 in. long, 2-3 lines thick, almost 

 equal, glabrous, fibrillosely striate, white with a red tinge, 

 apex slightly mealy ; spores elliptical, smooth, 8 x 4 /it. 



Agaricus {Inocybe) destrictus. Fries, Epicr., p. 172; Cooke, 

 Hdbk., p. 157 ; Cooke, Illustr., pi. 387. 



In pine woods, &c. 



Smell unpleasant. Distinguished from I. rimosa by the 

 adnexed gills and the stem becoming reddish with age. 

 I. asterospora is known from the present species by the nodrt- 

 lose, irregular spores. 



Inocybe perbrevis. Weinm. 



Pileus about 1 in. across, rather fleshy, eonvex, obtusely 

 umbonate, then expanded and often depressed round the 

 umbo, fibrosely squamulose or silky, rufous-brown then 

 paler and j-ellowish, margin somewhat striate and at length 

 ^plitting ; gills adnexed with a slight decurrent tooth, rather 

 distant, li line broad, brownish-white then tan-colour; stem 

 not more than 1 in. long, 2 lines thick at the apex, slightly 

 iittenuated towards the base, pallid, whitish fibrillose, 

 stuifed; spores elliptical, smooth, 10-12 X 5 /i.. 



Agaricus perbrevis, Weinm, p. 185; Cooke, Illustr., pi. 519; 

 Cooke. Hdbk., p. 157. 



In woods. 



Small, but rather firm, reddish-brown then becoming 

 yellowish ; stem palei', apex mealy, attenuated downwards. 

 Kesembling in habit and colour some of the small species of 

 Lactarius. 



Inocybe descissa. Fr. 

 Pileus up to 1 in. across, flesh thin except at the disc, 

 conical then campanulatus, fibrillose, becoming radiately 

 rr.iiked and splitting when expanded, whitish or pallid 

 A (jllow-brown, margin often striate ; gills almost free, 

 ciowded, thin, pallid then brownish; stem 1-1 1^ in. long. 



