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pact, at first convex, regular, at length deprcssea, waved,
pruinose, dry; stem solid, ventricose, naked, striate; gills
deeply dccurrent, rather distant, white, then flesh-coloured.—
(Plate 7, fig. 7.)—Huss. ii. t. 47.
In woods. White, or slightly cinorcons. Smell like that
of new meal. Esculent.
230. A. (Olitopilus) mundulus, Lasch ; pileus flesliy, tlim,
tough, piano-depressed, unequal, polished, dry; stem stuffed,
slender, flocculose, thickened at either end, at length black
within; gills deeply decurrent, very crowded, narrow, pallid.
^—A. nigrescens. Lasch, n. 521.
In woods. Scotland, KZotocA. King’s Cliffe. A. carneoalbus.
With., is very doubtful.
Suhgenus 14. Leptonia. - Stem with a cartilaginous bark.
Margin of pileus at first incurved; gills separating from the
stem.
231. A . (Leptonia) lampropus, F r .; pileus slightly fleshy,
obtuse', convex, flattened, not striate, at length depressed,
squamulose, broken np into flocci; stem subfistulose, even,
unspotted, steel-violet; gills adnate, ventricose, at first dirty-
white.
In pastures. Not uncommon. Pilens 14 inch across.
232. A. (Leptonia) serrulatus, P .; pileus carnoso-mem-
branaceous, hemispherical, then expanded, umbilicate, suh-
sqnamose, stem fistulöse, smooth, black, dotted above, gills
adnate, separating, broad at first, bluish, then greyish flesh-
coloured, edge black, finely notched.
In woods. Bare. AYothorpc, etc. Stem sometimes grey.
Easily distinguished by the serrate edge of the gUls.
233. A. (Leptonia) euchrons, P . ; pileus slightly fleshy,
campanulate, then convex, obtuse, squamuloso-fibrillose; stem
stuffed, smooth, violet ; gills adnexed, ventricose, violet, edge
entire, darker.—Pers. Syn. p. 343.
On alder-trunks. Rare. Mossburnford, A. Jerdon. Gills
smalt-bluc when young. Cæspitose, not an inch across.
234. A. (Leptonia) ohalybæus, P. ; pileus slightly fleshy,
conve.x, subumbonate, not striate, at first flocculose, then squamulose;
stem stuffed, smooth, blue; gills emarginate, adnexed,
broad, ventricose, at first of a glaucous dirty-white, edge darker.
Sow. i. 161.
In pastures. Not uncommon. Pileus 4-1 inch broad.
235. A. (Leptonia) inoanus, Fr.; pileus suhmemhranaccous,
convexo-planc, umbilicate, smooth, with a silky lustre, or virgate,
margin striate ; stem fistulöse, shining, smooth, brownish-
green; gills adnate, separating from the stem, hroad, rather
distant, white, then greenish.—Sow. t. 162.
In pastures. Not uncommon. Smell exactly like that of
mice. Stem often with beautiful verdigris-coloured down at
the base.—A. Sowerbeii, Eng. El.
236. A. (Leptonia) asprellus, Fr. ; pileus submembranaceous,
convex, flattened, striate, hygrophanous, umbilicus darker,
squamuloso-fibrillose; stem fistulöse, slender, smooth; gills
adnate, separating from the stem, rather distant, equally attenuated,
whitish-grey.
In open pastures. Rare. Bristol, H. O. Stephens. Wans-
ford.
Suhgenus 15. Nolanea.—Stem cartilaginous. Margin of pileus
at first straight, pressed to the stem.
237. A. (Nolanea)pascuus. P .; pileus membranaceous, conical,
expanded, subumbonate, smooth, striate, hygrophanous,
when dry shining like silk; stem fistulöse, brittle, striate,
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