Flam mn la 



AGARICACE.E 



c. Piisilltz. 



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668. H. magriimamma Karst. (from the large umbo ; magnus, large, 



mamma, breast) a. 

 P. plane, ochreous-red, then pale yellowish. St. stuffed or 



fistulose, smooth, naked, colour as P. G. adnate, subsinuate, 



ferruginous. 

 Amongst grass, under apple-trees. Sept. i X \\ X \ in. 



669. H. petiginosum Quel. (from the scurfy-hoary pileus ; petigo, 



scab) a b c. 



P. convex, subumbonate, hoary-silky, brown or shaded ochreous, 

 rufescent, slate or purplish. St. stuffed, rufescent, paler above, 

 white-pulverulent. G. slightly adnexed, or free, crowded, 

 olivaceous-brown or shaded rufescent. 



Woods, beech. Oct. I x i X i in. 



XXVII. FLAMMULA Quel. 

 (From the frequent flame-like colours ; flamma, a flame.) 



Veil fibrillose, fugitive or obsolete. Hymenophore confluent and 

 homogeneous with the fleshy stem. Pileus fleshy, margin at first 

 involute. Stem central, subannulate or simple, fleshy-fibrous, not 



Fig. 36. A, section of Flammula gymnnpodia Quel. ; 

 B, ditto F.flavida Quel. One-third natural size. 



mealy above. Gills decurrent or adnate, without a sinus, commonly 

 entire and of one colour, at first whitish, clay-colour or yellowish, 

 then coloured by the spores. Spores mostly pure ferruginous, some- 

 times fuscous-ferruginous or tawny-ochraceous. (Fig. 36.) 



The species usually grow on wood, some grow on the ground, 

 many are bright yellow, orange or orange-brown in colour. Some 

 agree in structure with Clitocybe and Clitopilus, those growing on 

 wood approach P/wliotn, and agree with Armillaria and in part with 

 Hebeloma and Strophana. Species 670 702 



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