Hypholoma AGARICACE^E l8l 



G. crowded, light yellow, sometimes cinereous. Flesh white, 

 becoming light yellow, sienna in St. 



Taste acrid ; odour strong, acid. Stumps, fir, fallen firs, on the ground ; 

 frequent. Aug. -Dec. 3? X 6J X | in. Sometimes wholly bright yellow ; 

 often sterile. One form of this is Clitocybe Sadleri Sacc. 



825. H. elseodes Gill, (from the olive colour of the gills ; Gr. e/aios, 



olive, cidos, appearance) a b c. 



P. plane, subumbonate, tan or buff. St. fibrillose, colour as P., 

 becoming ferruginous. G. crowded, thin, white to olivaceous. 

 Flesh pale buff. 



Taste bitter ; odour sour. Stumps, on the ground. Oct. 2f X 2^ X J in. 

 Sometimes wholly ivory-whitish. Sometimes regarded as a form of 826. 



826. H. faseiculare Quel. (from the fasciculate habit) a l> c. 



P. flat, subobtuse, sulphur-yellow ; mid. sienna. St. hollow, 

 fibrillose, sulphur above, sienna below or wholly sulphur-yellow, 

 often fibrilloso-annulate. G. crowded, sulphur to green. Flesh 

 sulphur. 



Gregarious, densely caespitose. Probably poisonous. Taste and odour acrid, 

 nauseous, bitter, sickening. Stumps, on the ground ; very common. 

 April-Dec. 2 X 4! X in. There are many varieties. Recorded from 

 Glyncorrwg collieries with stems 4 feet long. 



827. H. instratum Mass, (from the naked, uncovered pileus; 



insfrafus, uncovered) a. 



P. convex, broadly umbonate, rugose, rich dark-brown. St. hollow, 

 smooth and white above, fibrillose and pale brown below. G. 

 adnato-ascending, brown to purple-brown, edge paler. Flesh 

 pale sienna-brownish. 



Stumps. Autumn, if X 2 X ^ in. 



828. H. dispersum Quel. (from the scattered habit of growth ; 



dispergo, to scatter) b. 



P. expanded, viscid, obtuse, tawny-yellowish to purplish-umber. 

 St. fistulose, sometimes rooting, silky-fibrillose, faintly ferru- 

 ginous above, rich fuscous-brown below. G. distant, thick, 

 brownish flesh-colour or shaded olive, with a white edge. 

 Flesh pale yellow-tawny. 



Woods, pine, dry to marshy places, on the ground, on sawdust. April-Nov. 

 1 1 x 4^ X in. Variable in colour and habit. 



b. VistidcR. 



829. H. ineomptum Mass, (from its simple, unadorned appearance ; 



incomptns, rough, without ornament) a. 



P. expanded, broadly gibbous, even, deep bay-brown, or orange- 

 tawny. St. hollow, equal, pale above, dark ferruginous below, 

 brown-fibrillose and yellow tomentose. G. adnato-rounded, 

 crowded, deep olive, purple-clouded. 



Stumps. Autumn. 4 X 3j X | in. 



