Gomphidius 



AGARICACE^: 



251 



whitish-purple. Flesh yellowish, often with purple stains, 

 rhubarb-colour at base. 



Said to be edible ; odour not unpleasant. Woods, chiefly pine ; frequent. 

 July-Oct. 4f X 4$ X \\ in. Var. testacens Fr. P. brick-red. Woods, 

 beech. Every intermediate form occurs between this and 1168, including 

 the varieties roseus and testacens. 



1170. G. maeulatus Fr. (from the spotted pileus and stem ; macu- 



latus, spotted) a. 



P. becoming flat and depressed, white to brownish-salmon with 

 large umber or blackish spots ; marg. striate. St. solid, 

 slightly attenuate downwards, yellow or yellowish below, white, 

 grey or purplish in middle, whitish above. G. pale slate, 

 shaded umber. Flesh reddish. 



Woods, fir. Autumn. 2\ X 2\ X \ in. Var. Cookei Mass. St. whitish above, 

 blackish at base. 



1171. G. graeilis B. & Br. (gracilis, slender) a b c. 



P. becoming flat and depressed, pale vinous-brown covered with 

 dingy-fuliginous gluten, at length black-spotted and black- 

 bordered with the drying gluten. St. solid, slightly attenuate 

 downwards, white-scaly above, yellow and virgate below, 

 clouded vinous-tan. G. slate-white, white umber or greenish- 

 white. 



Woods, fir ; frequent. July-Oct. if X 2j X \ in. Berkeley's illustration, 

 Outlines, t. 12, fig. 7, does not agree with his description. Every inter- 

 mediate form occurs between this and 1170. 



XLVI. PAXILLUS Fr. 



(From the form, like a small stake or 



Veil obsolete. Pileus fleshy, margin at first involute. Stem 

 central, excentric or obsolete, when present fleshy, continuous and 



B 



Fig. 60. A, Paxillus involutus Fr., entire and in section ; gills 

 separating from hymenophore at * ; B, section of P. panuoidcs 

 Fr. One-third natural size. 



homogeneous with the hymenophore. Gills decurrent, often anas- 

 tomising behind and forming spurious pores as in Boletus, readily 



