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they are larger than in H. tener , but smaller than in H. 
decor as. (B. and Br., l.c.) 
Hymenogaster griseus, Vitt. Globose or irregular, pale 
brown, at first covered with whitish down ; cells minute, grey, 
becoming blackish, spores fusiform, irregularly tuberculose, 
dark umber brown, 28-32 x 20 /jl. 
Hymenogaster griseus , Vitt., Monogr. Tub. 23, t. iii. 
f. xv ; Tub, Fung. Hypog. 69 ( not Tul. in Ann. Sci. Nat. xix. 
374) ; Sacc., Syll. vii, p. 170. 
Amongst leaf soil. Epping Forest ! — Italy. 
The size of a pea or bean, rarely larger, outside whitish at 
first, septa greyish, as the spores become dark the flesh ap- 
pears mottled. Odour very pleasant, resembling Convallaria 
majalis. (Vitt., be.) 
Hymenogaster pusillus, B. and Br. (Fig. 21). Very small, 
obovate or subdepressed, white ; sterile base large ; substance 
dirty white ; cells large ; spores pallid-rubiginous, broadly 
elliptic, with a papillary apex, at length rough, 14 — 16 
x 10 ju. 
Hymenogaster pusillus , B. and Br., Ann. Nat. Hist, xvii, 
p. 75; Berk., Outl. 297 ; Tub, Fung. Hypog. p. 73 ; Cooke, 
Hdbk. n. 1063 ; Sacc., Syll. vii, p. 173. (Type in Herb. 
Berk. n. 4469.) 
On mossy ground in the Wilderness, Rushton, Norths. ! 
About two lines high, obovate or somewhat depressed, 
pure white, yellowish brown when dry, and then resembling 
strongly a specimen of Sclerotium complanatum , Tode, nearly 
smooth ; dirty white within, furnished with a large distinct 
absorbing base. Cavities of the hymenium large for the 
size of the fungus, clothed sparingly with the rust-coloured 
spores. Sporophores clavate, frequently forked or irregular, 
having two spores on rather long spicules. Spores short, 
minute, broadly elliptic, at first smooth, at length rather 
rough, obtusely apiculate. This species, which has no par- 
ticular odour, has at present occurred very sparingly. Its 
