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ous ; very much allied to A. spumosus, but very easily distinguished from all Flammula. 

 the preceding species by the fuscous-ferruginous spores. Its stature also is 

 smaller, its structure tougher and lasting long, and its colours more intense. 



On charcoal and burnt earth. Frequent. Sept.-Nov. 



Name carbo, charcoal. From its habitat. Fr. Monogr. \. p. 355. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 247. B. 6 Br. n. 1120. Worth. Smith in Seem. Jo urn. 1869. C. 

 Hbk. n. 344. Illust. PL 442. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 321. 



III. UDI. Cuticle of the pileus continuous^ &c. 



601. A. fusus Batsch. Pileus 5 cent. (2 in.) and more broad, 

 somewhat brick-colour, fleshy, compact, convex then plane, obtuse, 

 even, smooth, slightly viscid ; flesh firm, pallid. Stem about 5 

 cent. (2 in.) long, firm, stuffed, attenuated in a fusiform manner 

 downwards and roo\..<\,jibrtlloso-striate, pallid. Cortina manifest, 

 appendiculate. Gills somewhat decurrent, not very crowded, 

 pallid or light yellow then becoming ferruginous. 



Spores dingy ferruginous. Gregarious rather than caespitose. Odour not 

 bitter, taste mild. The colour of the gills is variable, becoming green-grey, &c. 



On the ground and stumps. Worthing, &c. Nov. 



Name -fusus, a spindle. From the stem. Batsch f. 189. (Very small.) Fr. 

 Monogr. i. p. 355. Hym. Eur. p. 247. Icon. t. 117.7". I - var - C. Illust. PI. 

 433- 434- A. pomposus Bolt. t. 5. A. hybridus Bull. t. 398. 



602. A. astragalinus Fr. Pileus 5 cent. (2 in.) and more 

 broad, blood-saffron or golden-flesh colour, darker at the disc, 

 pale at the circumference, fleshy, convex or lens-shaped then 

 flattened, obtuse, somewhat moist in rainy weather, but not viscid, 

 even, smooth, but when young superficially-silky round the margin 

 with the very thin adpressed whitish veil; flesh firm, of the same 

 colour, often becoming black when wounded. Stem 5-10 cent. 

 (2-4 in.) long, 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.) thick, stuffed then hollow, equal 

 or attenuated downwards, flexuous, scaly-jibrillose, pallid, scarcely 

 darker at the base. Cortina manifest, appendiculate, white. 

 Gills adnate, crowded, broad, when young pallid light yellow^ 

 somewhat of the same colour as the pileus at the base, the obtuse 

 edge flocculose when young. 



Somewhat caespitose. Spores scanty, pallid or dingy ferruginous. The 

 attachment of the gills varies with situation. The colour is very peculiar, and 

 cannot be easily described. Taste bitter, peculiar. 



On pine and fir stumps. Rothiemurchus. Glamis. Aug.-Sept. 



Although the colour of the flesh is the same it is always much brighter than 

 that of the pileus. When exposed from being eaten by slugs the flesh does 

 not turn black as it does when bruised. Name dorpayaA.ii/os, a goldfinch. 



