LEUCOSPORI. 143 



Spores sphaeroid-ellipsoid, irregular, 8-9 x 6-7 mk. K. ; irregularly toothed, Mycena. 

 roundish, 7-9x5-8 mk. B. ; 6x8 mk. W.G.S. Namesanguts, blood. 

 From the juice. Alb. & Schw. p. 196. Fr. Monogr. \. p. 225. Hym. Eur. 

 p. 148. Icon. t. 83. /. 3. Berk. Out. p. 127. C. Hbk. n. 197. lllust. PL 

 163. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 176. Go tin. &> Rab. t. j. f. 10. Bull. t. 518.7. P. 

 right hand. 



301. A. crocatus Schrad. Pileus 1-2.5 cent - ( 1 A~ 1 i n -) broad, 

 olivaceous, cinereous or shining white, somewhat membranaceous, 

 conical then campanulate, the even umbonate disc reddish, striate 

 towards the quite entire margin. Stem 7.5-12.5 cent. (3-5 in.) 

 long, slightly attenuated from the base, about 2 mm. (i lin.) thick, 

 tense and straight, even, smooth, saffron-blood-colour, especially 

 towards the rooting fibrillose base. Gills attenuato-adnexed, 

 somewhat distant, broader in front, somewhat ventricose, white. 



Quite inodorous, scattered. Readily distinguished by its saffron-blood juice. 

 The base of the stem creeps among leaves. There is a smaller variety on 

 beech. 



In woods among leaves. Uncommon. 



Name crocus, saffron. From the juice. Schrad. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 226. 

 Hym. Eur. p. 148. Berk. Out. p. 127. C. Hbk. n. 198. lllust. PL 163. 

 S. Mycol. Scot. n. 177. FL Dan. t. 1550.7. i, 2024.7 i. Knapp. Journ. Bot. 

 t. 7. 



302. A. chelidonius Fr. Pileus 1-2.5 cent - ( 1 A~ 1 i"-) broad, 

 becoming yellow-flesh-colour, somewhat membranaceous, cam- 

 panulate then convex, obtuse, smooth, pellucid-striate when moist, 

 even and opaque when dry, margin quite entire. Stem 4-5 cent. 

 (i l /z-2 in.) long, almost 2 mm. (i lin.) thick, fistulose, slightly firm, 

 even, smooth, becoming yellow, sparingly filled with yellow juice, 

 rooting and villous at the base. Gills adnate, somewhat distant, 

 distinct, whitish or becoming yellow-white. 



Somewhat caespitose, with the habit of yellowish forms of A. alkalinus to 

 which it is allied. Odour somewhat alkaline. 



On stumps of beech. Rare. 



Name chelidonium, the name of a flowering plant (Celandine) with yellow 

 juice. The name is derived from x e ^i6i>, a swallow; the swallow arriving 

 about the time the plant flowers. The fungus is so named from its yellow 

 milk. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 226. Hym. Eur. p. 148. Berk. Out. p. 127. C. 

 Hbk. n. 199. lllust. PL 207 a. A. pumilus Sow. t. 385. f. 4. 



303. A. galopus Pers. Pileus 6-10 mm. (3-5 lin.) broad, at 

 first becoming black, then cinereous, varying white with a black- 

 ish papilla, membranaceous, conical then campanulate, some- 

 what umbonate, striate, naked or pruinate. Stem 5-7.5 cent. 

 (2-3 in.) long, fistulose, slender, somewhat fragile, even, smooth 

 or pruinate, cinereous-blackish, paler upwards, somewhat thick- 



