ENTOLOMA. 273 



Entoloma ardosiacum. Bull. 



Pileus 1-2 in. across, flesh rather thin, campanulate then 

 convex and usually more or less umhilicate, even, moist, 

 steel-blue with a tinge of brown, at length giej'ish; gills 

 slightly adnexed, cut out behind, ventricose, crowded, white 

 or greyish flesh-colour ; stem about 3 in. long, 2 lines thick 

 at the apex, thickened towai'ds the base, glabrous, steel- 

 blue, base white, hollow ; spores rosy, snbglobose, nodulose, 

 9-10 ju, diameter. 



Agaricus (Frntoloma) ardosiacus, Fries, Monogr., ii. p. 295 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 121 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 328. 



Agaricus ardosiacus. Bull., Champ., t. 348. 



In damp meadows, also under pines. 



Size very variable ; somewhat blackish when young. 

 Eesembling in colour some species of Leptonia. Known 

 from the remaining blue or grey species by the even, moist 

 pileus and long stem. A doubtful native. Cooke's iigures 

 are drawn from French specimens. 



Entoloma madidum. Yr. 



Pileus 1-2 in. across, rather fleshy, campanulate then 

 convex, even, glabrous, moist and often viscid in rainy 

 weather, shining when dry, not hygrophanous, when young 

 blackish-violet, soot-colour when old, margin thin, inflexed, 

 slightly striate ; j^ills slightly adnexed, almost free, ven- 

 tricose, watery and soft, greyish-white ; stem fleshy-fibrous, 

 hollow, distinctly thickened in a clavate manner below, 

 2-3 in. long, base 4-5 lines, apex 2-3 lines thick, surface 

 fibrillose, apex naked, violet except the white base. 



Agaricus (^Entoloma) madidus, Fries, Epicr., p. 143. 



Among moss, heaps of leaves, &c. 



The verystioug pungent smell, lesembling Bussula foeteus, 

 along with the dark colour of the pileus and stem, readily 

 stamps this species. 



Entoloma liquescens. Cooke. 

 Pileus 1-2^ in. across, flesh uniformly thin, convex then 

 expanded and almost plane, broadly umbonate, margin very 

 thin, wavy, smooth, even, ochraceous-yellow, disc rufous ; 

 gills free, crowded, Ij line broad, thin, white then pale 

 dingy lilac ; stem 2-3 in. long, 2-3 lines thick, equal, white, 



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