NOLANEA. 263 



Nolanea icterina. Fr. 



Pileus ^-1^ in. across, ratter firm, almost membranaceous, 

 campanulate, soon convex, often becoming entirely reflexed, 

 but not umbilicate, undulate and variously formed in 

 vigorous specimens, glabrous, opaque, hygrophanous, pel- 

 lucidly striate, yellowish-green, rarely boney-colour with a 

 tinge of yellow, pale and slightly silky when dry ; disc some- 

 times obtuse, at others papillate, often brown and with 

 brown squamules; gills adnexed, seceding, ventricose, dis- 

 tant, pallid; stem 1-2 in. long, 1 line thick, stuffed, rigid, 

 the apex only or every part mealy, colour of the pileus or 

 brown ; spores oblong, nodulose, 11-12 x 8 /*. 



Agaricus (Nolanea) icterinus, Fries, Epicr., p. 157 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 134; Cke., Illustr., pi. 338. 



Among grass, also in cultivated places. 



Usually somewhat caespitose, very variable, stem often 

 compressed. Gills free, decurrent, anastomosing, &c., be- 

 coming saffron in decay. 



. Nolanea subglobosa. A. & S. 



Pileus about % in. across, rather fleshy, hemispherical, 

 even, rather viscid, yellowish, gills nearly free, 2 lines or 

 more broad ; rhomboid, convex, flesh-colour with a yellowish 

 tinge ; stem about 1 J in. long, 1 line thick, equal, longi- 

 tudinally striate, pale, becoming hollow; spores broadly 

 elliptical, smooth, pale pink, 9 x 7 /x. 



Agaricus svhglobosus, Albertini and Schweinitz, p. 169; 

 Grev., vol. xvii. p. 38 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 1170b. 



On the ground. 



Distinguished by the subglobose, viscid, yellow pileus and 

 broad gilts. 



*** Gills white, then rosy. Pileus hygrophanous. 



Nolanea picea. Kalchbr. 

 Pileus up to IJ in. broad, rather fleshy, scarcely hygro- 

 phanous, conical then campanulate, at leng-th expanded, 

 papillate, even, glabrous, black becoming paler at the margin, 

 umber when dry ; flesh tinged with umber ; gills adnexed, 

 ascending, with a short decurrent tooth, rather distant. 



