Part 71

Marginal cystidia: ellipsoid to pyriform and hyaline.

Facial cystidia: elongate cylindric larger than marginal cystidia.

On bare soil

~Leptonia babingtonii~ (Bloxam) P. D. Orton

Cap: 5-15 mm. Stem: width 1 mm; length 20-50 mm.

Description: Plate 76.

Cap: grey to sepia or greyish brown entirely scaly-hairy, at first, but then fibrillose.

Stem: silvery grey to grey-sepia and silky fibrillose.

Gills: greyish pink.

Spore-print: greyish pink.

Spores: very long, wavy angular in outline, very pale honey under the microscope and 14-20 × 7-9 µm.

Marginal cystidia: club-shaped or balloon-shaped and hyaline.

Facial cystidia: absent.

So very different to other species of Leptonia is it that it should be classified in Dr. Pilát’s genus Pouzaromyces.

~Conocybe mairei~ Watling

Cap: width 5-10 mm. Stem: width 1 mm; length 10-40 mm.

Description:

Cap: pale to deep ochraceous or buff, minutely tomentose.

Stem: flexuous, whitish or very pale ochraceous.

Gills: pale buff then ochraceous.

Spore-print: ochraceous.

Spores: medium sized, ellipsoid or slightly almond-shaped with small germ-pore and 6-8 × 3-4 µm in size.

~Flammulaster granulosa~ (J. Lange) Watling

Cap: 4-15 mm. Stem: width 1 mm; length 10-25 mm.

Description:

Cap: ochraceous to date-brown, darker at the centre and granular scaly throughout.

Stem: similarly coloured to the cap and similarly roughened, except for the slightly smoother paler apex.

Spores: ellipsoid to almond-shaped, very pale brown under the microscope and 8-10 × 4-5 µm in size.