208 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



1 line thick, clavato-bulbous at the base, white, hollow; 

 spores (3lliptical, salmon-colour, 15-16 X 8-10 jx.. 



BolUtius tener. Berk., Outl., p. 183 ; t. 12, f. 2 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 235 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 691. 



Amongst grass. 



Very slender. Distinguished by the smooth, even, 

 whitish conical pileus and the bulbous base of the stem. 



PLUTEOLUS. Fr. (fig. 7, p. 3.) 



Pileus conical or campaniilate then expanded, flesh thin ; 

 viscid, margin at fir.-,t straight and adpressed to the stem ; 

 gills rounded behind and free from the stem ; stem central, 

 its substance differentinted from the flesh of the pileus ; 

 spores ferruginous or safi'ron-colour. 



Pluteolus, Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 266 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 182. 



Growing on wood. The present genus corresponds mor- 

 phologically to Pluteus in the Bhodosporae. 



Pluteolus reticulatus. Fr. (fig, 7, p. 3.) 



Pileus 1-1^ in. across, flesh thin, campanulate, becoming 

 plane, viscid, "tvith raised, anastomosing veins forming a 

 vague network, margin striate, greyish or pale lilac ; gills 

 i'ree, ventricose, crowded, Ij line broad, rusty-saffron colour ; 

 stem 1^-2 in. long, 1^ line thick, slightly incrassated at the 

 base, fragile, fibrillose, white, hollow ; spores ferruginous in 

 the mass, elliptical, smooth, 7 x 4 /i. 



Agaricus (Pluteolus) reticulatus, Pries, Hym. Eur., p, 266 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 183; Cke., Illustr., pi. 495. 



On dead wood. 



Closely resembling Pluteus in habit and structure, but 

 with ferruginous spores. 



Pluteolus aleuriatus. Fr. 



Pileus about f in. across, thin, conico-convex then flat- 

 tened, viscid, striate, not wrinkled, greyish or pink ; gills 

 free, ventricose, ochraceous-saffron ; stem l|-2 in. long, about 

 1 line thick, white, pulverulent, often incurved, hollow. 



Agaricus {Pluteolus) aleuriatus. Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 266 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 183. 



