482 Mas see. — A Monograph of the genus Inocybe , Kars ten. 
flavella, Karst., Symb. Myc. Fenn., xxix, in Med. Soc. Flor. et Faun. Fenn., 
1889, p. 100; Sacc., Syil. ix, p. 100. 
P. acutely conoid then expanded and acutely umbonate, innately fibrilloso- 
rimulose, glabrous, yellowish and somewhat shining, 2-3 cm. ; g. adnexed, crowded, 
yellowish then olive, edge paler and crenulate ; s. solid, equal, flexuous, white with 
a yellow tinge, apex white-flocculose, about 3 cm. ; sp. oblong, ends very obtuse, 
almost cylindrical, smooth, 12-14 X 4-6 [x ; c. fasciculate, cylindrical, and apex clavate, 
sometimes ventricose, 60-90 x 8-14 \x. 
In pine woods. Finland. 
ttt Gills tinged violet. 
violaceifolia, Sacc., Syll. ix, p. 98; Ag. ( Ino .) violaceifolius , Peck, 41 Rep. 
State Mus., p. 66. 
P. convex or almost plane, fibrillose, subsquamulose, grey, 1-1-5 cm. ; 
g. crowded, adnexed, pale violet then brownish cinnamon ; s. firm, solid, slender, 
fibrillose, whitish, 2*5 cm. long; s. smooth, elliptical, iox6-5/xj ventricose, 50-60 
X 12-16 {x, fairly numerous. 
Mossy ground in woods. United States (Selkirk). 
Distinguished among species having the gills tinged lilac by the whitish stem. 
(Peck’s type examined.) 
** Stem coloured. 
t Gills brown , ochraceous or cinnamon. 
caesariata, Karst., Hattsv., p. 459 ; Sacc., Syll. v, p. 783 ; Ag. caesariatus , 
Fries, Epicr., p. 176; Ag. ( Inocybe ) caesariatus, Cke., 111 ., pi. 338. 
P. convex then expanded, broadly subumbonate, tawny-ochraceous, densely 
covered with spreading ochraceous fibrils, which are sometimes collected into more 
or less concentric squarrose squamules, 2-3 cm. ; g. adnexed, rounded behind, edge 
quite entire, pale ochraceous; s. equal, sometimes slightly wavy, solid, strongly 
loosely fibrillose, pale ochraceous, 4-8 cm. ; sp. 8-10 x 4-5 pip-shaped, smooth; 
c. narrowly ventricose, fairly abundant, 70-80 x 12-15/x. 
In beech woods, &c. Britain, France, Germany, Sweden. 
The above diagnosis is drawn up from specimens examined by Fries in a fresh 
state, being sent by Berkeley. Cooke’s figure in 111 ., pi. 383, is copied from Berkeley’s 
original drawing of the specimens sent to Fries. The superficial fibrils are not well 
shown. 
(Specimens determined by Fries examined.) 
obscura, Karst., Hattsv., p. 460; Sacc., Syll. v, p. 770; Ag. obscurus, Pers., 
Syn. Fung., p. 347 (1801); Ag. ( Heb .) obscurus , Saund., Sm. and Bennet, Myc. 111 ., 
i, pi. 21, lower fig. (1871). 
P. campanulato-convex, obtuse or subumbonate, radially fibrillose, disc squamu- 
lose, brown more or less suffused with violet, 1-5-2 -5 cm.; g. adnexed, uncinate, 
crowded, ventricose, olive then brownish ; s. elongated, stuffed, often slightly wavy, 
fibrillose, colour of p., 4-7 cm. ; sp. pip-shaped, smooth, 8-10 x 5-6 \x ; c. ventricose, 
65-75 X 1 2-1 6 ix, abundant. Smell strong. 
Damp pine woods. Britain, France, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Holland. 
The above is the typical form as described by Persoon. Pileus and stem 
