nt with the cap but of a different texture, hollow or stuffed.
The veil is absent or sometimes small traces may be seen attached to the
rim of the pileus, in young plants in the form of flakes. The spores are
of various shades of brown, dull or bright. They grow on the ground on
lawns and rich pastures. Some on wood.

_Naucoria hamadryas. Fr._

THE NYMPH NAUCORIA. EDIBLE.

Hamadryas, one of the nymphs whose life depended upon the tree to which
she was attached.

The pileus is one to two inches broad, rather fleshy, convex, expanded,
gibbous, even, bay-ferruginous when young and moist, pale yellowish when
old.

The gills are attenuated, adnexed, almost free, rusty, slightly
ventricose, somewhat crowded.

The stem is hollow, equal, fragile, smooth, pallid, two to three inches
long. The spores are elliptical, rust-color, 13-14x7u.

This is quite a common species, often growing alone along pavements,
under shade trees, and in the woods. The caps only are good. Found from
June to November.

_Naucoria pediades. Fr._

THE TAN-COLORED NAUCORIA. EDIBLE.

[Illustration: _Photo by C. G. Lloyd._

Figure 228.--Naucoria pediades. Natural size.]

Pediades is from a Greek word meaning a plain or a field, referring to
its being found on lawns and pastures.

The pileus is somewhat fleshy, convex, then plane, obtuse or depressed,
dry, finally opaque, frequently inclined to be minutely rivulose.

The gills are attached to the stem but not adnate to it, broad,
subdistant, only a few entire brownish, then a dingy cinnamon.

The stem is pithy or stuffed, rather wavy and silky, yellowish, base
slightly bulbous. The spores are of a brownish-rust color, 10-12x4-5u.

If the small bulb at the base of the stem is examined, it will be found
to be formed chiefly of mycelium rolled together around the base. It is
found on lawns and richly manured pastures from May to November. Use
only the caps. This plant is usually known as semiorbicularis.

_Naucoria paludosella. Atkinson n. sp._

[Illustration: Plate XXXIII. Figure 229.--Naucoria paludosella.

Showing mode of growth, clay-brown scales on the caps.]

Paludosella is a diminutive of _palus_, gen. paludis, a swamp or marsh.

Plants six to eight cm. high; pileus two and a half to three cm. broad;
stem three to four mm. thick.

Pileus viscid when moist, convex to expanded, in age somewhat depressed;
clay color, darker over center, often with appressed clay brown scales