254 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



SpoiTiles rose-coloured, elliptic with a globular nucleus. 

 Stem 1| in. higli, 1 line thick, stuffed, at length hollow, 

 indigo without, dark within, nearly smooth above, downy at 

 the base. (Berk.) 



Leptonia lazulina. Pr. 



Pileus § in. across, submembranaceous, campanulate then 

 expanded, obtuse, striate, at first glabrous, then becoming 

 more expanded, obsoletely umbilicate, and torn into squa- 

 mules, blackish smoke-colour, at first often blackish-blue or 

 greyish-bay, the disc darker ; gills adnate, seceding, crowded, 

 pale blue, edge similarly coloured, equally attenuated from 

 the margin to the stem ; stem about 2 in. long, 1^ line thick, 

 cartilaginous, hollow, glabrous, even, deep blue, base with 

 white down; spores 10 X 6 /i. 



Agaricus (Leptonia) lazulinus, Fries, Epicr., p. 153 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 131 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 549. 



Among grass, &c. 



Gregarious, fragile, about the size of L. asprella. 



Allied to Nolanea. There are two forms; one with the 

 pileus blackish-blue at first ; the other bay -brown, the disc 

 darker. (Fries.) 



*** Gills pallid. 



Leptonia incana. Fr. 



Pileus about 1 in. across, somewhat membranaceous, fragile, 

 convex then expanded, umbilicate, striate, glabrous, brown 

 and green variegated, silky and becoming greyish when dry : 

 gills adnate, with a decurrent tooth, at length seceding, 2-;! 

 lines broad in the middle, plane, distant, greenish white 

 then flesh-colour; stem 1-2 in. long, about 1 line thick, 

 distinctly cartilaginous, even, glabrous, greenish or brownish- 

 green ; spores irregular, 8 x 9 /;i. 



Agaricus (Leptonia') incanus, Fries, Epior., p. 154; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 131 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 836. 



Among grass, moss, &c. 



Elegant, gregarious. Pileus almost plane, the disc rarelj^ 

 fibrillose, fuscous variegated with green. According to 

 Secretan, the stem is sometimes bluish. 



