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of the hand, fleshy, but not compact, convex, obtuse, soft, at first Pholiota 

 velvety, then torn into innate hairy squamules; flesh compara- 

 tively thin, soft, white becoming yellow. Stem as much as 20 

 cent. (8 in.) long, 12 mm. (Yz in.) thick, solid, somewhat equal, 

 even, smooth, becoming pale, but sprinkled towards the ring with 

 a separating/^rr//7>zw.y scurf, naked above the ring, but floccu- 

 lose at the apex. Ring distant from the pileus about 2.5 cent, 

 (i in.), properly inferior, but appearing to be medial, at first erect, 

 then spreading, sometimes small, often however wide, laciniate, 

 externally flocculose and ferruginous - furfuraceous, internally 

 even, golden-tawny. Gills adnexed then free, attenuated at both 

 ends, ventricose, crowded, connected by veins, pallid ferruginous. 



Very handsome, variable. The ring varies radiato-striate and veined. The 

 pallid mycelium sometimes glues the soil together at the base into a large ball 

 with the appearance of a bulb. Shedding very copious spores, making the 

 ring and apex of the stem pulverulent. 



On the ground. Dumfries Fungus Show. Sept. 



In the only British specimens I did not observe anything of the ball formed 

 by the mycelium and soil, but the stem itself was somewhat thickened at the 

 base, where several were united. The whole plant was larger than described 

 by Fries. Name aurum, gold. Golden. Mattusch. Sil, p. 351. Fr. 

 Monogr. i. p. 303. Hym. Eur. p. 214. Icon. t. 101. S. Mycol. Scot. Supp. 

 Scot. Nat. 1885, p. 22. C. Illust. PL 346. Var. Herefordensis C. Illust. 

 PL 347. 



Var. Vahlii Schum. Pileus even, smooth. Gills somewhat 

 free. 



This differs chiefly in the smoothness of the pileus. The British specimens 

 agree exactly with the figure in ' Flora Danica.' Rare. Dunkeld. Moncreiffe. 

 Fl. Dan. t. 1496. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 303. Hym. Eur. p. 214. B. & Br. n. 

 1652. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 268. 



491. A. caperatus Pers. Pileus 7.5-12.5 cent. (3-5 in.) broad, 

 more or less intensely yellow, fleshy, but thin in proportion to 

 its size and robust stem, ovate then expanded, obtuse, viscid only 

 when moist and not truly so, even at the disc, lacunoso-wrinkled 

 at the sides, incrusted with white superficial flocci. Stem 10-15 

 cent. (4-6 in.) long, more than 2.5 cent, (i in.) thick, solid, stout, 

 cylindrical with exception of the base which is often tuberous, 

 shining white, squamulose above the ring, which is membran- 

 aceous, reflexo-pendulous, and broken into squamules at the apex. 

 Gills adnate, crowded, thin, somewhat serrated, <:Azy-cinnamon. 



When young the pileus is incrusted with the veil or with white mealy-floc- 

 cose villous down, which is crowded on the even disc and squamulose towards 

 the thin lacunoso-sulcate margin ; and as this separates the pileus is naked. 

 Veil universal, floccoso-mealy, at the first cohering in the form of a volva but 

 not continuous ; in rainy weather remaining in the form of a volva at the base. 

 Spores dark ferruginous on a white ground, paler on a black ground. There 



