280 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



Agaricus (Entoloma) rhodopoUus, Fries, Epicr., p. 147; 

 Cke., lUustr., pi. 342. 



Ill woods. 



Fragile, usually large, and often showj-, almost inodorous. 



Pileus 1|-2J in. broad, piano-expanded or sub-depressed, 

 occasionally minutely umbonate, ocbraceous with a brownish, 

 tint, the margin sometimes darker and waved, in large 

 specimens subcarnose, smooth and shining with a satiny- 

 lustre, most minutely silky under a lens, but the silkiness is 

 quite adpressed. Gills very broad, thick, adnate, more or less 

 rounded behind, and separating I'rom the stem, covered with 

 elongated conical processes, surmounted by three divaricate 

 spiculae. Sporules elliptic, rose-coloured. Stem 2-4 in. 

 high, 2 lines or more thick, hollow, stringy within or occa- 

 sionally with transverse imperfect partitions, subflexuous, 

 pulverulent at the apex, downy at the base, minutely 

 iibrilloso-striate. Odour strong, sometimes resembling that 

 of nitric acid, sometimes that of Polyporus squamosus. (Berk.) 



Entoloma majalis. Fr. 



Pileus 1^-3 in. across, flesh rather thin, splitting, cam- 

 panulate then convex, somewhat umbonate, becoming ex- 

 jjanded, rather fragile, glabrous, even, more or less cinnamon- 

 colour, yellowish-ochre when dry, margin wavy, easily 

 cracking ; gills free, ventricose, crowded, margin crenate, 

 pallid, becoming rosy flesh-colour from the spores ; stem 3-4 

 in. long, 2-3 lines thick, slightly thickened below, twisted, 

 striate, rather fibrillose, whitish, base slightly incrassated, 

 white and downy. 



Agaricus (Entoloma) majalis, Fries, Epicr., p. 147 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 124. 



In fir-woods among moss, &c. 



Caespitose, large, slender, stems often connate at the base, 

 hollow. Allied to Nolanea. (Fries.) 



Pileus cinnamon-ochraoeous when dry. Sowerby's plate 

 174 is considered a variety of this species, which is a doubtful 

 native. (Cke.) 



Entoloma Wynnei. B. & Br. 

 Pileus 1-1| in. across, flesh white, very thin except at the 

 disc, somewhat convex soon becoming plane, more or less 



