Massee . — A Monograph of the genus Inocybe , Karsten . 487 
1 Inocy be frumentacea (Bull.), Bres., Fung. Trid., p. 88, tab. 200 ; Agaricus frumen- 
taceus , Bull., Champ. France, tab. 571, fig. 1 ; Ino. jurana, Pat., Tab. Anal., no. 551 ; 
Ino. rhodiola , Bres., Fung. Trid., p. 80, tab. 87 (forma gracilis)/ 
Bresadola is by no means the first mycologist who has essayed to define 
the exact species Bulliard’s figure represents, and judging by the diversity of 
opinion expressed, the task appears to be hopeless, and one would imagine, not 
profitable. 
Fries (Hym. Eur., 52) considers the Fungus in question to be a Tricholoma ; 
Berkeley (Outl. p. 144) places it in Entoloma ; Quelet (Flor. Myc. 262) regards it as 
synonymous with Hygrophorus russula, Schaeffer. 
No type specimen of Bulliard’s Fungus has been discovered, and Bresadola, like 
other people, has only the old figure to go by, and as Bulliard’s figures were hand- 
coloured, and variable within fairly wide limits in different copies, I have decided not 
to admit Bulliard’s figure, already claimed by so many mycologists, into the genus 
Inocybe , but have restored Bresadola’s first name given to this Fungus, which is 
obviously an Inocybe. 
fuscodisca, Mass.; Ag. (Heb.) fuscodiscus, Peck, 27 Rep. State Mus., p. 95, 
pi. 1, figs. 3-6 (1874); Sacc., Syll. v, p. 796. 
P. at first subviscid, conical, covered with blackish-brown fibrils, then campanulate 
or expanded and umbonate, whitish, the disc remaining blackish-brown, 1-5-2 -5 cm.; 
g. crowded, white then brownish, edge minutely fimbriate ; s. equal and solid, whitish 
and pruinose at the apex, remainder brownish, fibrillose, 3-7 cm. ; sp. pip-shaped, 
smooth, 8-10x5-5-5 AO c. ventricose, fairly numerous, 45-55x12-16^. The 
odour like chestnut blossom. 
In an old pasture under trees. United States (Forestburgh). 
The somewhat viscid pellicle is separable. 
(Peck's type examined.) 
comatella, Peck, 38 Rep. State Mus., p. 87, tab. ii, f. 5-8 ; Sacc., Syll. v, 
p. 791. 
P. convex or expanded, covered with whitish or greyish hairs, margin fimbriate, 
4-8-5 mm. ; g. adnate, rather distant, pale cinnamon ; s. equal, solid, flexuous, pallid- 
or rufous-brown, then darker, slightly mealy or pruinosely-fibrillose, with white 
mycelium at the base, 2-2-5 cm.; sp. pip-shaped, smooth, 8x4-4 *5/*; c - strongly 
ventricose, 45-55 X 12-20 /x. 
On trunks and branches among dead leaves. United States. 
Intermediate between I. tricholoma and I. strigiceps (Peck). 
(Peck’s type examined.) 
fiocculosa, Sacc., Syll. v, p. 768; Ag. (Ino.) flocculosus , Berk., Engl. FI., v, 
p. 97 (1836). 
P. convex or subcampanulate, umbonate, silky- squamulose, brownish-fawn 
colour, 2-5 cm. ; g. rounded behind and adnate but not broadly so, pale fawn then 
dull rusty, edge white ; s. fibrillose, apex squamulose, brownish beneath the fibrils, 
3 cm. ; sp. elliptical, smooth, 8-10 x 5-6 fx; c. abundant, ventricose, 50-60 x 12-15 /*-• 
Smell mealy but unpleasant. 
On naked soil and among grass. Britain. 
