ular or uneven, flesh
color.

The stem is cartilaginous, stuffed or hollow, lighter in color than the
pileus, equal or sometimes slightly enlarged at the base, polished from
which the specific name is derived.

This is a larger plant than E. carneo-grisea; and it differs materially
in the character of its spores, which are strongly angled and some of
them square, 10-12u in diameter, with a prominent mucro at one angle.
It is found in the woods from September to frost.

_Leptonia. Fr._

Leptonia means slender, thin.

The spores are salmon-color and irregular. The pileus is never truly
fleshy, cuticle always torn into scales, disk umbilicate, and often
darker than the margin which is at first incurved. The gills are
attached to the stem and easily separated in old plants. The stem is
rigid, with cartilaginous bark, hollow or stuffed, smooth, shining,
often dark-blue, confluent with the cap.

_Leptonia incana. Fr._

THE HOARY LEPTONIA.

Incana means hoary or grayish-white.

The pileus is about one inch broad, somewhat membranaceous, convex, then
plane, depressed in the center, smooth, with a silky lustre, margin
striate.

The gills are attached to the stem, broad, somewhat distant, white, then
greenish.

The stem is hollow, shining, smooth, brownish-green. The spores are very
irregular, dull-yellowish, pink, rough, 8-9u.

It is frequently found in pastures after warm rains. They grow in
clusters, and have the odor of mice to a marked degree.

_Leptonia serrulata. Pers._

SAW LEPTONIA.

[Illustration: Figure 207.--Leptonia serrulata.]

Serrulata means saw-bearing, so named from the serrulate character of
the gills.

The pileus is dark-blue, flesh thin, umbilicate, depressed, without
striate, squamulose.

The gills are attached to the stem, with a dark serrulate edge.

The stem is thin, cartilaginous, paler than the pileus.

_Nolanea. Fr._

Nolanea means a little bell, so called from the shape of the pileus.

It is rosy-spored. The stem is cartilaginous and hollow. The pileus is
submembranaceous, thin, bell-shaped, papillate, margin straight, pressed
close to the stem. The gills are free and not decurrent. They are found
growing on the ground in the woods and pastures.

_Nolanea pascua. P._

THE PASTURE NOLANEA.

Pascua means pasture.

The pileus is membranaceous, conical, then expanded, slightly umbonate,
smooth, striate, watery; when dry, shining like silk.

The gills are ne