Mas see. — A Monograph of the genus Inocybe , Karst en. 491 
s. cylindrical, slender, equal, whitish, 5-6 cm,; sp. broadly elliptical, smooth, 12-14 
X 8 /x ; c. absent. 
On the ground. India (Masulipatam). 
A fine, large species, superficially resembling /. pyriodora. The specimens, 
collected by Berkeley's son, are accompanied by coloured sketches. 
(Type specimen examined.) 
subdecurrens, Ellis and Everh., Journ. Myc., v, p. 27 (1889); Sacc., Syll. ix, 
p. 97 ; I fomentosa , Ellis and Everh., Journ. Myc., v, pp. 27-28 (1889). 
P. convex then plane, disc depressed and with or without a small umbo, densely 
adpressed pilose or tomentose, pale drab becoming yellowish, 2-5 cm. ; g. adnato- 
decurrent, dingy cinnamon, edge serrulate ; s. fibro-squamulose above, white-tomentose, 
hollow throughout or only upwards, 2-4 cm. ; sp. elliptical, ends obtuse, often very 
slightly curved, smooth, 8-10x5-6 /x; c. absent. 
On the ground under branches of Norway spruce. United States (Newfield, 
N.Y.). 
After a very careful examination of authentic specimens from Ellis and Everhart's 
exs., I feel constrained to consider that but one species is present. Both were found 
under the same tree, and both manifest the same salient features, among which are 
the depressed disc, a rare feature in Inocybe ; serrulate gills, agreement in form and 
size of spores, and in the absence of cystidia. In the dried condition the gills show 
a decided olive tinge. 
Ellis however does not hold the above view, and, in a paragraph following the 
diagnoses of these forms, says : — 
‘ I. subdecurrens is larger, with a hollow stem, and has the gills more crowded, 
nor is the margin incurved and tomentose, and it is also rather a darker shade and has 
the margin of the gills more strongly serrate/ 
In /. tomentosa the margin remains incurved till the plant is nearly full grown. 
In 1 . subdecurrens the margin is never incurved, even when young, nor is there 
any annular mark on the stem, though the fibrous veil is at first distinct. 
(Specimens from Ellis and Everh., N. Amer. Fung., ser. ii, nos. 1906 and 2101 
examined.) 
vatricosa, Karst., Hattsv., p. 465 ; Sacc., Syll. v, p. 790 ; Ag. (Ino.) vatricosus> 
Fries, Syst. Myc., i, p. 259; Icon. Sel., ii, p. 9, tab. no, f. 3. 
P. convex then plane, obtuse or umbonate, smooth, glabrous, becoming silky 
towards the margin, viscid when moist, shining when dry, white, 1-5-2 -5 cm. some- 
times broader; g. emarginate, slightly adnexed, almost free, crowded, whitish then 
brown ; s. fistulose, white, entirely covered with white down, not fibrillose, ascending 
or flexuous, about equal, 2-^5 cm. ; sp. elliptical, smooth, 5-6 x 3-3-5 /x ; c. absent. 
On the ground or on fallen chips, in damp woods. Britain, Sweden, Finland, 
Russia. 
Very variable in size, usually small ; superficially resembling I. geophylla , but 
generally smaller, and differing in absence of cystidia. Quite as much a Hebeloma as 
an Inocybe. 
ft Gills tinged olive. 
fibrillosa, Peck, 41 Rep. State Mus., p. 65 (1888); Sacc., Syll. ix, p. 98. 
