PORPHYROSPORiE 
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In tufts amongst leaves, at the foot of stumps, etc., in sum. 
and aut. Very common. “ Very distinct from Hypholoma 
appendiculatum , which it approaches in colour, in the more 
rigid pileus and stem, and in the complete absence of a veil. 
Known from every other species of the present genus in the 
gills being white, then flesh colour, and finally brown. In 
size and other points, very variable. Typically large, 
. terrestrial, forming large loose clusters” (Fries). 
P. fcenisecii (fcenisicia , hay harvest—occurring amongst 
grass in recently mown pastures). Plate IX. i. 
P. J-i in., bell-shaped at first, then expanded; dingy brown, 
becoming pale; drying from the apex downwards. G. 
adnate, ventricose (hence appearing broadly emarginate), 
rather distant, umber-brown. 5 . 2-3 in., slender, rigid, 
fragile ; reddish-brown, then paler ; hollow. “ Stem straight, 
or often a little flexuous ; somewhat resembling, superficially, 
Panceolus papilionaceus, but much smaller, and differing in 
the umber gills and spores ” (Massee). Common in fields 
and on lawns; not appearing in win . 
P. semilanceata (semi, half; lancea, a spear—the pileus 
nearly spear-shaped in vertical section), “ Little Spear,” 
appears in aut. in troops in fields, etc. P. |-f in., acutely 
conical, margin more or less persistently incurved, sticky 
when moist, very pale yellow or bluish-green when dry. G. 
broadly adnate, brown, then blackish-purple, margin paler, 
S. 2-3 in. slender, tough, shining, pale, wavy. Easily 
recognised by the spear-shaped pileus. 
HYPHOLOMA 
(Gr. huphe, a web; loma , a fringe—from the fringe-like veil) 
H. fasciculare (fasciculus , a small bundle), “ Sulphur-tuft.” 
Plate XXXVIII. 10. 
P. 1-2 in., conic, then expanded, thin, glabrous, tawny, 
margin yellow. G. adnate, very crowded, yellow, then 
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