. British fungi (hymenomycetes). Basidiomycetes; Fungi -- Great Britain. 138 AGARICINI. Nyctalis. hollow places. There is scarcely any doubt that these species are forms of others, changed in appearance and disguised owing to their place of growth. II. PARASITVE (parasita, a parasite). Gills distinct, distant. On putrid fungi. I.—SPELE/E. 1. N. caliginosa Smith.—Pileus white when dry, marked with colours (as in Ag. butyraceus) when wet, very fleshy, floccoso-pruinose when dry, margin involute, slightly exceeding the gills. Stem solid, floccoso-pruinose, base naked. Gills decurrent, thick, bran
. British fungi (hymenomycetes). Basidiomycetes; Fungi -- Great Britain. 138 AGARICINI. Nyctalis. hollow places. There is scarcely any doubt that these species are forms of others, changed in appearance and disguised owing to their place of growth. II. PARASITVE (parasita, a parasite). Gills distinct, distant. On putrid fungi. I.—SPELE/E. 1. N. caliginosa Smith.—Pileus white when dry, marked with colours (as in Ag. butyraceus) when wet, very fleshy, floccoso-pruinose when dry, margin involute, slightly exceeding the gills. Stem solid, floccoso-pruinose, base naked. Gills decurrent, thick, branched. Odour and taste rank and disagreeable like Polyporus sqiiamosus. Closely allied to N. parasitica, but at once distinguished by its truly decurrent gills and other characters. Amongst earth and dead leaves in dense dark wood. Bishop's Wood, Highgate. Name—caligo, darkness. From its ha- bitat. Smith Journ. Bot. 1873, P- 337-. LII. Nyctalis parasitica. One- half natural size. II. — PARASITE. 2. N. asterophora Fr. — Pileus white when young, then/awn- colour, fleshy, conical then hemispherical, often papillate when young, then splitting Q^, floccoso-pulverulent. Stem scarcely exceeding 12 mm. (}4 in.) long, 1-2 mm. (j^-i lin.) thick, stuffed, equal, but often twisted, at first whitish and pruinose, then be- coming fuscous. Gills adnate, distant, thick, tense and straight, somewhat forked, dingy. Very abnormal. Gregarious. The dust covering the pileus represents stel- late spores under the microscope. B. even underneath and without gills. On dead Russula nigricans, &c. Frequent. Spores 2x3 mk. Name — aster , a star;fero, to bear. From the stellate bodies in the dust on the pileus. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 214. Hym. Eitr. p. 463. Berk. Out. p. 217. C. Hbk. n. 652. 5. Mycol. Scot. n. 623. Ag. Bull. t. 516. /. i. Asterophora Lycop. Dittm. Sturm t. 26. 3. N. parasitica Fr. — Pileus cent. (l/£-i in.) broad, whit- ish-fuscous, then beco
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