Part 53 (1/2)

=coelestina=, Fr. P. 1.5-2 cm. campan. obtuse, blue, disc darker, scabrid; g. adnate, very broad; s. 2-3 cm. blackish blue, apex pruinose; sp. glob. 10.

[=cruentata=, Q. P. campan. mammilate, edge exp. pruinose, bluish-lilac; g. broad; s. slender, glaucous or bluish, rufescent when touched; sp.

rough, 10.

=exilis=, Fr. P. 2 cm. conico-exp. striate, livid grey, apex darker and papillate; g. adnexed; s. 4-6 cm. filiform, bluish green, apex naked; sp. ----.

[=Kretzschmarii=, Rab. P. ovate then exp. reddish then greyish white, umbo rather fleshy, pellucidly striate at edge; g. decur.; s. yellowish brown, base floccosely rooting.

=rubida=, Berk. P. up to 1 cm. convex then exp. umbil. whitish grey then rufescent, minutely silky; g. adnate, slightly decur.; s. 4-6 mm. white; sp. 4-5 3.

[=cocles=, Fr. Small. P. at first cucullate, furcato-sulcate, disc umbil., umber, scabrid, becoming exp.; g. adnate, broad, distant; s.

glabrous, livid.

[=monach.e.l.la=, Q. P. campan. apiculate, striate, diaphanous, white, centre spotted sooty; g. adnate, uncinate; s. bulbillose, white, hyaline; sp. rough, 10-12 6-8.

[=minuta=, Karst. P. convex, sometimes sub.u.mbil. striate up to umbilicus, glabrous, pallid fuscous, paler when dry and s.h.i.+ning; g.

adnate, pallid; s. pallid fuscous, glabrous; sp. rough, 7-9.

LEPTONIA, Fr.

* _Gills whitish. Pileus rather fleshy, not striate, not hygr._

[=Linkii=, Fr. P. convexo-plane, fibrillosely virgate, sooty black then grey, disc darker; g. white then flesh-colour, edge black; s. glabrous, smoky, base incurved; sp. 10 long.

[=Forquignoni=, Q. P. umbil. wavy, rugulosely striate, granulated, olive, diaphanous; g. eroded, h.o.a.ry; s. slightly striate, silky; sp.

rough, 11 long.

=placida=, Fr. P. 2-3 cm. convex, obtuse, grey or bluish, downy disc darker, fibrillosely scaly; g. adnexed, broad, entirely whitish; s. 4-7 cm. blackish-blue, apex with white bloom and very minutely spotted black; sp. ----.

Differs from _L. lappula_ in p. not being umbil.

=anatina=, Lasch. P. 3-4 cm. campan. indistinctly umb. greyish brown, longitudinally fibrillosely squamulose; g. adnexed, broad; s. 3-4 cm.

bluish, pruinose then fibrillosely squamulose, apex even (not spotted black); sp. 8 5. (10-12 7-8 Sacc.)

Differs from _L. placida_ and _L. lappula_ in not having black points at apex of stem.

=lappula=, Fr. P. 2-3 cm. exp. umbil. grey, even, the darker umbilicus with erect fibrils, giving a muricellato-punctate appearance; g. broad, crowded; s. 4-5 cm. brownish-lilac or blackish-purple, apex naked and with black points; sp. ----.

=lampropoda=, Fr. P. 2-3 cm. convex then exp. or subdepr. flocculose then squamulose, sooty grey then paler; g. adnate, ventricose; s. 3-4 cm. even, firm bluish violet, apex not black spotted; sp. rough, 10-11 6-7.

Differs from _L. asprella_ in even p. not being umbilicate.

var. _cyanulus_, Lasch. Slender. P. sub.u.mbil. floccosely villose, blackish blue; s. capillary.

=aethiops=, Fr. P. 1.5-2.5 cm. plano-depr. even, s.h.i.+ning, black then smoky, glabrous but innately fibrillosely virgate; g. adnate, entirely whitish; s. 3-5 cm. blackish brown, black punctate upwards; sp. rough, 10 7.

Differs from _L. lampropoda_ in black punctate s.

=solst.i.tialis=, Fr. P. 1-1.5 cm. exp. at length depr. papillate, rugulose, obsoletely innately fibrillose, fuscous; g. emarginate, broad; 2-3 cm. smoky, glabrous; sp. rough, 12-14 7.

[=camelina=, Lasch. P. obtuse, pallid rufous; g. arcuate, crowded; s.