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umbonate or gibbous, often splitting at the margin with age, slicht) 
viscid, fibrillose, glabrous at the centre, soon J/ongitudinally ee 
fawn but generally darker at the margin. Stem 4-7 cm. long, 8 
mim. thick, solid) round, pruinose at the apex, base bulbous and 
marginate, slightly attenuated upwards, white then pale straw-colour 
with age. Flesh white, odour somewhat earthy. Gills attenuated 
behind, adnexed, almost free, narrow, 3 mm. wide, crowded, white 
then dirty cinnamon with a white fimbriate edge. Spores angular 
g-11 x 5-6 yellowish ochre. Cystidia fusiform, ventricose, 55-75 x 
18-304, somewhat fuscous at the apex. 
On the ground, Swarraton, Hants., 15th August 1903. Rey. W, 
iy We Byre. 
Distinguished from Inocybe fastigiata and rimosa by its long 
angular spores and white or pale straw-coloured stem. . 
Inocybe brunnea Quél. Soc. Sc. n. de Rouen, 1879, pl. 2, f. 7. 
Pileus campanulate, 3-5 cm. across, umbonate, fibrillosely silky, 
then cracked, chestnut. Stem 6 cm. high, 5 mm. thick, stuffed, 
thickened at the base, fibrillosely striate, light brown, white and 
pruinose at the apex. Cortina concolorous and fugacious. Flesh 
white. Gills emarginate, broadest in front 5 mm. wide, cream 
colour then umber, with the edge white and indented. — Spores 
bistre 7-12 x 4-6. 
Amongst grass near Pines, Savernake Forest, gth October, 1903. 
Inocybe fulvella Bres. Fung. Trid., Vol. IL., p. Os, plaaQyetie2: 
Pileus 6-12 mm. across, conico-campanulate then expanded and 
umbonate, floccylosely silky, glabrous at the centre, somewhat hygro- 
phanous, olivaceous honey-colour with the umbo somewhat darker 
then becoming yellowish or fuscous olive with the umbo tawny. 
Stem 2-3 cm. long, 1-2 mm. thick, stuffed, attenuated downwards, 
glabrous, white pruinose at the apex, lilac but soon changing to 
rufescent. Flesh yellowish, 2 mm. thick at the centre of the pileus, 
lilac at the apex of the stem and then rufescent. Gills ventricose, 
I-5 mm. wide, rounded behind and almost free, subdistant, lilac 
then cinnamon, edge fimbriate. Spores ferruginous, angular and 
warted 7-9 x 5-6u. Cystidia fusiform, ventricose 45-60 x 10-18), 
somewhat fuscous at the apex. 
Amongst moss. Wyre Forest, Salop, 31st August 1903. C, Rea. 
The lilac tint of the stem, flesh, and gills can only be observed in 
the field as it very quickly disappears with age or dryness. 
Agaricus versicolor With. Ed. 3, Vol. IV., p. 166 (1796). 
This Worthington G. Smith refers to Armillaria mellea Vahl. 
Jour. Bot. XLI. (1903), p. 341. 
