Chapter 67
=echinospora=, W. G. S. P. at first rather scurfy, moist, hygr. citrin, greenish marginate then pallid, edge slightly striate; g. citrin; s.
reddish-brown, white squamulose; sp. rough, 7 6.
GALERA, Fr.
I. CONOCEPHALI. _Pileus conico-campanulate, hygr. almost even, atomate when dry; stem straight, gills somewhat crowded, ascending._
[=apala=, Weinm. P. campan. equal, obtuse, even, hygr. pallid livid, white when dry; g. almost free, whitish then ochre; s. tall, fragile, narrowed upwards, white-velvety; sp. 12-14 7-8.
var. _sphaerobasis_, Post. P. campan. even; s. shorter, glabrous, base spherical.
=lateritia=, Fr. P. 2-3 cm. high, nut-shaped then conical, even, hygr.
gilvous then ochre, edge densely striate when moist; g. very narrow, tawny-rust; s. 6-9 cm. fragile, narrowed upwards, white-pruinose; sp.
11-12 5-6.
Differs from _G. ovalis_ by narrow, ascending g.
=tenera=, Schaeff. P. 1-2 cm. high, conico-campan. obtuse, hygr. pale yellowish rusty, pale and rather atomate when dry; g. adnate, crowded, rather broad, cinnamon; s. 6-9 cm. straight, fragile, rather s.h.i.+ning, colour of p.; sp. 12-13 7.
var. _pilosella_, Pers. P. and s. covered with short erect p.u.b.escence when moist.
[=flexipes=, Karst. P. campan. obtuse, rusty and slightly pellucidly striate, ochraceous when dry; g. adnexed, crowded, pallid then rusty, edge crenulate; s. equal, fistulose, wavy, pallid then rusty, white-fibrillose, apex white-pruinose; sp. 10-12 5-6.
[=p.u.b.escens=, Gillet. P. conical, reticulately wrinkled, atomate, very minutely p.u.b.escent, brown or ochre, hygr.; g. narrow, veined at base, rusty; s. tall, rigid, coa.r.s.ely longitudinally striate above, finely p.u.b.escent, paler than p.
=siliginea=, Fr. P. 1-1.5 cm. globose, then campan. finally exp.
unequal, even, greyish, not becoming pale; g. adnate, ochre; s. 4-7 cm.
rather wavy, equal, pallid, rather pruinose; sp. 11-13 5-7.
=campanulata=, Ma.s.s. Smell strong. P. 1-2 cm. persistently campan.
subacute, even, hygr. deep cinnamon, whitish, atomate and rather rugulose when dry; g. adnate, tawny cinnamon; s. 4-5 cm. wavy, pallid; sp. 12 7.
=ovalis=, Fr. P. 3-4 cm. thin, ovato-campan. even, hygr. dark rusty, yellowish when dry; g. nearly free, ventricose, very broad, rusty; s.
6-9 cm. straight, equal, slightly striate, colour of p. hollow; sp. 10 6.
Veil sometimes subannulate.
[=rabenhorstii=, Fr. P. acutely conical then exp. umbil. pellucidly striate, olive; g. lanceolate, white then rufous-brown; s. fibrously striate, brownish-white, base thickened, somewhat floccosely rooting.
=antipoda=, Lasch. P. 1.5-2.5 cm. campan.-convex, even, ochre, whitish and atomate when dry; s. 2-3 cm. striate, mealy, base bulbous and fusiformly rooting; g. almost free, crowded, yellowish-ochre;
=conferta=, Bolt. P. 1-2 cm. acutely conico-campan. striate, glabrous, hygr. fuscous, fuscous ochre when dry; g. slightly adnexed, white then brownish ochre; s. 2-4 cm. silky, s.h.i.+ning, naked, with an equal very long rooting base; sp. ----.
Densely crowded, very fragile.
=spicula=, Lasch. P. conico-campan. striate when moist, brown-ochre, flocculose when dry; g. adnate; s. straight, slender, white-floccose, base thickened, fibrillose.
=spartea=, Fr. P. 1-2 cm. campan.-convex, exp. obtuse, hygr. even when dry, glabrous, cinnamon then pale; g. adnate, crowded; s. 3-5 cm. rigid, flexile, glabrous; sp. ----.
Resembling _G. tener_ but smaller, and s. not straight.
=pygmaeo-affinis=, Fr. P. 2-3 cm. campan. exp. dry, not striate, slightly wrinkled, honey-tan; g. thin, crowded, very narrow, rusty-ochre; s. 4-6 cm. equal, s.h.i.+ning white; sp. ----.
Fries says this is possibly a tall form of _Naucoria pygmaea_.
II. BRYOGENI. _Pileus membranaceous, campanulate, striate, glabrous, hygr. even, opaque and rather silky when dry; stem slender, lax, flexile; gills broadly and abruptly adnate, broad, somewhat denticulate._
=vittaeformis=, Fr. P. 1.5-2.5 cm. conico-campan. papillate, striate, somewhat bay; g. adnate, ascending; s. 3-7 cm. equal, flexile, even, reddish; sp. 12 6.
=rubiginosa=, Fr. P. 0.5-1 cm. campan. obtuse, everywhere deeply striate, hygr. cinnamon or honey-colour, tan when dry; g. distant, broad, opaque; s. 4-5 cm. glabrous, reddish; sp. 10 5.
=hypnorum=, Batsch. P. 0.5-1 cm. campan. subpapillate, glabrous, striate, hygr. ochre or tawny-ochre then pale; g. broad, lax; s. 3-4 cm.
wavy, colour of p. apex pruinose; sp. 10 6.
var. _bryorum_, Pers. Larger, watery cinnamon, papilla somewhat h.o.r.n.y; sp. 10 6.
var. _sphagnorum_, Pers. Two to three times larger than type, yellowish-ochre; s. elongated, subfibrillose, tawny.
[=hypnicola=, Karst. P. conico-campan. obtuse, disc gibbous, deeply lineato-striate, livid fuscous, soon paler; g. crowded; s. equal, lax, flaccid, silky flocculose from veil, soon glabrous, pallid; sp. 10-12 7.
=mniophila=, Lasch. P. 1-1.5 cm. campan. subpapillate, striate, brownish yellow; g. broad, yellowish-ochre; s. 4-7 cm. equal, flexile, yellow, apex mealy; sp. 14 6.
=minuta=, Q. P. 3-5 mm. campan. striate, pale tawny bistre; g. arcuate, as broad as long; s. 1-2 cm. hair-like, tawny, s.h.i.+ning, woolly and white at base; sp. 6 4.
[=aquatilis=, Fr. P. campan.-convex, subpapillate, glabrous, watery, edge striate, pallid honey-colour or hyaline, then whitish; g. distant, triquetrous, pallid; s. very long, slender, even, very glabrous, pallid; sp. 10-14 6.
[=tenuissima=, Weinm. P. campan. obtuse, glabrous, slightly striate, tinged olive; g. crowded, cinnamon; s. very slender, flexile, glabrous, cinnamon; sp. 10-13 long.
III. ERIODERMI. _Pileus submembranaceous; veil evident, superficial, deciduous; at first--especially near the edge--silky or squamulose._
=pityria=, Fr. P. campan. exp. glabrous, viscid, lurid, tan when dry, fugacious veil append.; g. slightly adnexed, crowded, rusty; s.
fistulose, firm, glabrous, silvery, apex with white meal.
=ravida=, Fr. P. 1.5-3 cm. campan. then hemispher. even when moist, greyish, dingy ochre when dry, edge at first toothed with white veil; g.
nearly free, gilvous; s. 2-3 cm. fibrilloso-striate, pallid, silvery; sp. 8-10 4.
=mycenopsis=, Fr. P. 1-2 cm. campan. exp. disc even, striate to middle, at first silky-white near edge, ochre then pale; g. white then ochre; s.
6-9 cm. attenuated, white, silky; sp. 9-12 5-6.
[=morch.e.l.loides=, De Brond. P. conoid, obtuse, subgibbous, with anastomosing wrinkles, edge wavy, tawny ochre; g. whitish then fuscous; s. equal, squamulose, rufous.
[=vest.i.ta=, Fr. P. campan. striate, tawny yellow when moist, ochre when dry, edge fimbriately toothed with the veil; g. adnate, yellow then ochre; s. rigid, pulverulent, yellowish; sp. 10 4-5.
[=Sahleri=, Q. Minute. P. conical, acute, striate, chestnut tawny, honey-colour when dry, deciduous silky fibrils at margin; g. adnate, tawny ochre; s. fibrillose, s.h.i.+ning; sp. 8-10 4-5.
TUBARIA, W. G. Sm.