The pileus is somewhat fleshy, convex, then expanded,
obtuse, umbonate, clothed with fibrous scales.

The gills are free, broad, ventricose, white, tinged with red,
light-gray. Spores are obliquely elliptical, smooth, 12x6u.

The stem is slender, short, stuffed, clothed with small fibers, naked
above, reddish within.

Found on the ground where the soil is clayish or poor. Not good.

_Inocybe subochracea Burtii. Peck._

[Illustration: Figure 218.--Inocybe subochracea Burtii. Natural size.]

This is a very interesting species. It is thus described by Dr. Peck:
"Veil conspicuous, webby fibrillose, margin of the pileus more
fibrillose; stem longer and more conspicuously fibrillose. The well
developed veil, and the longer stem, are the distinguishing characters
of this variety."

The plants are found in mossy patches on the north hillsides about
Chillicothe. The pale ochraceous yellow and the very fibrillose caps and
stem will attract the attention of the collector at once. The caps are
one to two and a half inches broad and the stem is two to three inches
long.

_Inocybe subochracea. Peck._

Pileus thin, conical or convex, sometimes expanded, generally umbonate,
fibrillose squamulose, pale ochraceous-yellow.

The gills are rather broad, attached, emarginate, whitish, becoming
brownish-yellow.

The stem is equal, whitish, slightly fibrillose, solid. _Peck._

This is a small plant from one to two inches high whose cap is scarcely
over an inch broad. It grows in open groves where the soil is sandy. It
is found on Cemetery Hill from June to October.

_Inocybe geophylla, var. violacea. Pat._

[Illustration: Figure 219.--Inocybe geophylla, var. violacea.]

This is a small plant and has all the characteristics of Inocybe
geophylla excepting color of cap and gills.

The pileus is an inch to an inch and a half broad, hemispherical at
first, then expanded, umbonate, even, silky-fibrillose, lilac, growing
paler in age.

The gills are adnexed, lilac at first, then colored by the spores.
Spores 10x5.

The stem equal, firm, hollow, slightly violaceous.

This plant grows in September in mixed woods among the dead leaves. Its
bright violet color will arrest the attention at once.

_Inocybe dulcamara. A. & S._

[Illustration: Figure 220.--Inocybe dulcamara.]

Dulcamara means bitter-sweet. The pileus is an inch to an inch and a
half in diameter, rather fleshy, convex, umbonate, pilosely-scaly.

The gills