128 AGARICACE/E P/ioliota 



578. P. squarrosa Que'l. (from the rough-scaly pileus ; sqnarrosus, 



rough) a b c. 



P. convex, gibbous, dry, ochreous-sienna ; marg. appendiculate 

 with V. St. stuffed, attenuate downwards, brown-squarrose 

 below A. G. adnate with a decurrent tooth, olivaceous- 

 ferruginous, flesh light yellow. 



Caespitose, sometimes in fascicles of 50 or more. Sometimes eaten. Odour 

 strong and nauseous of putrid cheese or none. On or near stumps, beech, 

 oak, ash, laburnum, acacia, apple, plum ; common. July-Dec. 3^ X 4^ X in. 

 Sometimes twice the size of type. Var. verruculosa Gill. P. glutinous 

 when wet ; maple. Var. reflexa Gill. P. umbonate. Var. Mulleri Gill, 

 small, wholly sulphur. 



579. P. subsquarrosa Quel. (from the pileus, less scaly than 578) a c. 

 P. plane, viscid, brown ; marg. appendiculate with V. St. sub- 



squarrose below A., yellow-ferruginous. G. adnate with a 

 decurrent tooth, or almost emarginato-free, pale brown. Flesh 

 pale ochreous-brownish. 



Subcaespitose. Odour almost obsolete. Trunks, fir, and on the ground. 

 Sept. 2 x 2 X T 5 s in. 



579a. P. grandis Rea (grandis, large) b. 



P. convex, then expanded, broadly gibbous, dry, fulvous-tawny, 

 covered with small innate deeply tawny sq. at the circ., revolute 

 at mid. St. solid, fusiform, slightly squamulose and tawny 

 below the distant, almost fugacious A., deeply striate above. 

 G. broad, attenuate in front, deeply sinuato-decurrent behind, 

 somewhat crowded, pallid, then fuscous. Flesh light yellow, 

 ferruginous in St. 



Csespitose. Taste and odour very pleasant. Trunks, ash, oak. Oct. 

 9 X 8 X 2^ in. 



580. P. speetabilis Gill, (spectabilis, notable) a b c. 



P. convex, obtuse, dry, rich sienna-yellow. St. solid, squamulose 

 or smooth, ventricose, rich yellow. G. adnate with a tooth or 

 subdecurrent. Flesh sulphur. 



Crespitose. Taste, bitter-aromatic. Stumps, oak, beech, hornbeam, 

 hawthorn ; frequent. Aug.-Dec. S|X5|XiJin. Stem sometimes 9 in. 

 Resembles 1049 in appearance. 



581. P. adiposa Quel. (from the pileus, as if covered with fat) a b c. 

 P. plane, subdepressed, very glutinous, sulphur ; sc. floccose, 



ferruginous ; mid. deep sienna-yellow ; marg. appendiculate 

 with V. St. squarrose, viscid, colour as P. A. small, floccose. 

 G. adnato-rounded. 



Csespitose. Trunks, beech, ash, plum, silver-fir, birch ; frequent. July-Oct. 

 7 X 5 X | in. 



581a. P. lueifera Quel. (from the flame-like colours ; lux, light, 



fero, to carry) a. 



P. fleshy, convex, almost plane becoming umbonate, viscid, 

 covered at first with darker adpressed sc. which soon disappear, 

 yellow, or orange with sulphur marg. St. stuffed to hollow, 



