Massee. — A Monograph of the genus Inocybe , Kars ten. 497 
violascens, Qudl., Jura et Vosg., xiv Supply p. 4, tab. xii, f. 6 ; Flor. Myc., 
p. 103 ; Sacc., Syll. v, p. 766. 
P. conico-campanulate, fibrillose, silky, clear buff to brown, velvety and lilac 
at the disc, 2*5 cm.; g. adnate, narrow, lilac then bistre; s. hollow, silky, striate 
and lilac under a white, silky cortina, 3-5 cm. ; sp. pip-shaped, smooth, 12-15 x 6 ft. 
Among grass, appearing in spring. France. 
Allied to /. corydalina , resembles the violet form of /. geophylla . 
tenebrosa, Qu£l., Assoc. Franc., 1885, t. 8, f. 8 ; Sacc., Syll. v, p. 775. 
P. campanulate, minutely velvety, yellowish-brown, 2-3 cm. ; g. adnate, narrow, 
ochraceous then brown; s. slender, fibrillose, striate, dusky brown or olive, apex 
whitish, 3-4 cm. ; sp. elliptical, apiculate, sometimes slightly curved, smooth, 
7-8 x 4 /*. 
In woods, spring. France. 
Merletii, Qudl., Assoc. Franc., 1884, t. 8, f. 7; Sacc., Syll. v, p. 769. 
P. convex, greyish, speckled with brownish fibrillose flecks, 3-5 cm. ; g. sinuate, 
pale then brownish ; s. whitish, streaked with yellow-brown fibrils underneath a white 
cobweb-like veil, 4-7 cm.; sp. elongato-elliplical, apiculate, smooth, 11-14x5-6^. 
Under poplars in damp places, spring. France. 
* * P ileus pale coloured. 
connexifolia, Gillet, Rev. Myc., v, p. 30 (1883); Sacc., Syll. v, p. 771; Gill., 
Champ. Fr., with figure. 
P. conical then somewhat spreading, margin always more or less recurved, 
obtusely umbonate, disc with fibrous adpressed scales, fawn-colour or pale reddish, 
3-4 cm. ; g. crowded, narrow, uncinnately adnexed, connected by numerous veins 
and anastomosing, colour of p. ; s. solid, equal, fibrously squamulose, whitish or 
tinged red, 5-7 cm. ; sp. elliptical, smooth. Smell resembles fruit. 
On the ground in woods. France. 
Closely resembles I. pyriodora , differing mainly in the gills being anastomosing 
and conspicuously connected by ribs. 
flava, Massee; Hebeloma flavum , Clements, Bot. Surv. Nebraska, iv, 1896, 
p. 22 ; Sacc., Syll. xiv, p. 134. 
P. campanulate, viscid, 5-6 cm., edge incurved, appendiculate, pale yellow, with 
tawny subconcentric scales 2 mm. broad ; g. somewhat sinuate, rather crowded, 
dingy ; s. stout, solid, short, curved, yellow, densely covered except at the base with 
concentric, floccose, tawny scales, 3-5 cm. ; sp. ovoid, smooth, 7-8 x 4 ft. 
On the ground. United States (Nebraska). 
maculata, Boud., Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr., xxxii, p. 283, pi, 9, f. 2 ; Sacc., Syll. 
v, p. 775. 
P. campanulate then expanded and umbonate, rimose, covered with brown 
adpressed fibrils and ornamented with whitish adpressed squamules, mostly con- 
centrically arranged, 3-5 cm. ; almost free, broad, fawn-colour with a tinge of olive ; 
s. solid, cylindrical, slightly thickened at the base, slightly fibrillose, colour of p., 
apex paler and scurfy, 3-8 cm.; sp. elliptic-oblong, smooth, 10-13 x 5-6 ft. 
In woods. France. 
Near to I. rimosa , differing in the white scales on the pileus and larger spores. 
