144 OUTLINE S OE B R IT ISH EUNGOLOGY.
221. A. (Entoloma) ardosiacus, Bull.; brittle; pileus slightly
fleshy, convex, then expanded and depressed, even, smooth,
moist; stem hollow, elongated, steel-blue, attenuated from the
white base; gills nearly free, crowded, greyish flesh-coloured.
Bull. t. 348.
In moist meadows. A doubtful native, introduced on the
authority of Sibthorpe.
222. A. (Entoloma) frumentaeeus, B ull.; pileus fleshy, firm,
rather brittle, nearly plane, dry, finely streaked; stem streaked
and slightly cracked, obtuse at the base; gills hroad, emarginate
or rounded behind, cinereous, with a reddish-yellow tinge.
—Bull. t. 571. / . 1.
On the ground, under a hedge. Rare. Woodnewton, Northamptonshire.
Pileus 34 inches across, huff, tinged with red
as well as the stem.
223. A. (Entoloma) sericeUus, F r .; pileus slightly fleshy,
convexo-plane or depressed, silky, at length squamulose; stem
subfistulose, fibrillose, white, becoming pallid; gills adnate, seceding,
slightly distant, white, then flesh-coloured.
In woods. Not uncommon. Resembling Persoon’s figure,
Ic. t. 6 . f. 2, quoted doubtfully by Fries, but not exceeding
an inch in diameter. Pileus and stem white. Stem solid or
densely stuffed, never fistulöse in the British plant.
** Pileus hygrophanous.
224. A. (Entoloma) clypeatus, L . ; pileus slightly fleshy,
campanulate, then expanded, umbonate, somewhat virgate,
smooth, hygrophanous; stem stuffed, attenuated, fibrillose,
becoming pallid; gills rounded behind, adnexed, seceding,
serrulate, of a dirty flesh-colour.—Huss. ii. t. 42.
In gardens, etc. Not uncommon. Pileus 4 inches or more
across.
225. A. (Entoloma) rhodopolius, F r .; pileus slightly fleshy,
campanulate, then expanded, at length slightly depressed, hygrophanous;
margin flexuous; stem hollow, nearly equal,
smooth, white, pruinose above; gills sinuated, adnate, white,
then rose-coloured. (Plate 7, fig. 6 .)
In woods, etc. Not uncommon. Pileus about 3 inches
across. Smell like that of fresh meal.
226. A. (Entoloma) oostatns, F r .; pileus thin, convexo-
bullate, then nearly flat, subumhilicate, undulated, smooth,
hygrophanous; stem hollow, short, irregular, somewhat striate,
grey, with a few little white scales ahove; gills quite entire,
nearly free, transversely ribbed, pallid.
In meadows. Very common. Pileus 2 inches or more across.
227. A. (Entoloma) serieeus, B u ll.; pileus carnoso-mem-
branaceous, convex, expanded, smooth, hygrophanous, silky
when dry; margin inflected, waved, slightly striate; stem
short, fistulöse, fibrillose; gills emarginate, plane, rather distant,
greyish.—Bull. t. 413. / . 1.
In meadows. Not uncommon. Smell like that of meal.
In part A. pascuus, Eng. El.
228. A. (Entoloma) nidorosus, F r .; pileus carnoso-mem-
hranaceous, convex, expanded, somewhat depressed, smooth,
hygrophanous, when dry shining with a silky lustre; stem
equal, smooth, white, becoming pallid, pruinose ahove; gills
emarginate, separating from the stem, hroad, somewhat distant,
flexuous, slightly discoloured.
In woods. Common. Pileus from 14 to 3 inches across.
Smell strong, nitrous. This is A. rhodopolius of Eng. El.
Suhgenus 13. Olitopilus.—Hymenophorum confluent with the
fleshy or flbrous stem ; gills decurrent.
229. A. (Cütopüus) prunulus. Scop. ; pileus fleshy, com