The Botany of Iceland - 01.12.1932, Qupperneq 83

FUNGI OF ICELAND
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Cap c. 3 cm broad, convex or plano-convex with a very conspicuous
umbo, at flrst crisped-squamulose below the even summit, then splitting
deeply down into the flesh, ground colour brown (h 2) or yellowish
brown (e 3), but as a rule with a greyish tinge owing to the coating.
Stipe cylindrical or somewhat dilated at base, internally brown, fuscous
Sterile cells, cystidia and
spores X 500.
Cystidia and spores X 500.
externally, covered with fuscous fibrils and scurf, apex not or only indi-
stinctly mealy. — Gills moderately crowded, broad, ventricose, obtusely
adnate, colour about k 4. — Spores smooth, brown, irregular in form,
mostly shaped like a projectile, 1- or 2-guttulate, 13—16X6—7.5 fx. —
Cystidia at the edge and on the face of the gills flaskshaped with coro-
nate apex or fusiform with an even and rounded apex, 48—60X15—22 fx.
514. I. abjecta Karsten, Hattsvampar I, p. 456.
Hallormstaðir. — Among moss on peaty soil with an admixture
of sand.
Pileus 15—18mm broad, plano-convex, umbonate, radiately íibrillose,
at length splitting at margin, brown (h 3 to g 7), covered with a thin lace-
rate-fibrose white layer forming grejdsh-white hair-
like scales at margin. — Stipe cylindrical, 4—5 cm
high, 1— 2mm thick, somewhat flexuose, firm, stufied,
íloccose, pale reddish-brown (k 2 to g 6). — Gills
<iistant, anteriorly 3 mm broad, tapering towards the
stipe, emarginate, margin denticulate, pale reddish-
brown (k 1 to j 1). — Spores brown, smooth, pip-
shaped, 1-guttulate, 8—9.5X5—6 fx. — Cystidia both
on the face and at the edge of gills ílaskshaped
with obtuse more or less coronate apex. At edge
of gills also shortly clavate cells.
515. I. maculata Boudier, Société botanique de France, 1885, p. 282.
Lava fields (Rhaun) near the south end of Mývatn, Laxárdalur, Rey-
kjadalur, sandy meadows near Ljósavatn, littoral pasture near Akureyri
[P. L.].
Inocijbe abj'ecta
Sterile cells, Cystidia
and spores, X 500.