258 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



Everywhere in pastures and woods throughout the year, 

 an exceedingly variable and changeable species, always 

 watery (moist), very fragile, of a squalid colour, nearest to 

 Entoloma sericeum. Stem fistulose, soft, usually 2-3 in. long, 

 1-2 lines thick (sometimes compressed), equal, silky-fibrous, 

 or fibrillose when adult, striate, usually pale smoke-colour, 

 not cartilaginous. Pileus membranaceous, somewhat acute, 

 conical then expanded, but not flattened, usually umbonate, 

 glabrous, smoky-grey and striate when moist, even, silky- 

 shining, hoary or fawn-colour, becoming pale when dry; 

 size very variable, the smaller forms hardly 1 in. across; 

 the larger 2-3 in. broad, undulately lobed in luxuriant indi- 

 viduals. Gills very much narrowed behind, almost free, 

 thin, crowded, ventricose, or especially towards the margin, 

 broader and obtuse, grey or smoky-white, powdered with 

 the rosy spores, but not tinged rosy. (Fries.) 



Pileus 1 in. or more broad, subcarnose, brown, when dry 

 changing to ochraceous-brown, umbonate, smooth, satiny 

 not fibrillose, the margin striate when moist. Stem 1 in. 

 high, stuffed minutely fistulose, when old quite hollow, and 

 fibrillose within and without, often compressed, paler than 

 the pileus. Sometimes the pileus is depressed and the gills 

 appear decurrent. Odour like that of fresh meal. The 

 above is a description of one state of the species, but it 

 will not apply universally. The stem is sometimes much 

 longer, and the gills vary much in shape. It occurs of 

 various colours, and the form of the pileus is bj' no means 

 constant. I have found specimens very much resembling 

 A. lanuginosus, which though very different from the common 

 state I imagine to be only a variety. The pileus is conico- 

 oampanulate, umbonate, umber-grey, decidedly silky, the 

 gills adnate with a distinct tooth, or sub-adnexed, dull 

 pink with a shade of umber, extreme margin white, scarcely 

 serrulate. Stem pale, darker below, fibrillose. It has the 

 same odour. Another form of the species, if not distinct, 

 has very broad secedento-adnate gills, and a subfibrillose 

 pileus. I can, however, find no other mark of distinction ; 

 this also has the mealy odour. (Berk.) 



Nolanea Babingtonii. Bloxam. 

 Pileus about ^ in. across and a little more in height, flegh 



