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Mottle-gills—on dung from Spring until Autumn.

Panaeolus semiovatus (Fries) Lundell

Cap: width 20-70 mm. Stem: width 5-10 mm; length 80-160 mm.

Description:

Cap: oval or bell-shaped, not expanding, dingy whitish or pale clay colour, smooth, slimy when moist, but soon drying and then becoming shiny, often wrinkled and cracked, and ornamented with fragments of veil at the margin.

Stem: dull, straight, rather rigid, tapering upwards, white, and striate at apex above a whitish erect and membranous, often collapsing, ring; yellowish below the ring and whitish and cottony at the slightly swollen base.

Gills: adnate, greyish then black, mottled and crowded.

Flesh: whitish or pale ochre.

Spore-print: black.