Illustrations: Hvass 116; LH 99; NB 857; WD 299.

Entoloma helodes (Fries) Kummer

Cap: width 25-75 mm. Stem: width 2-6 mm; length 25-55 mm.

Description:

Cap: finely or minutely velvety at centre, fibrillose or white silky as if frosted towards the margin, sepia or bistre, or mouse-grey, dull-coloured but with a hint of violaceous brown.

Stem: equal or slightly thickened at the apex, sometimes club-shaped, thickened at the base, greyish brown and pale cream-colour at the base.

Flesh: dark sepia in the cap, whitish in the stem and smelling strongly of meal.

Plate 77. Moorland fungi

[Larger illustration]