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512. A. Junonius Fr. Pileus 5 cent. (2 in.) broad, yellow, Phoiiota. 

 fleshy, firm, convexo-plane, obtuse, dry, even, smooth; flesh com- 

 pact, pallid. Stem 4-5 cent. (i/4-2 in.) long, 6-8 mm. (3-4 lin.) 

 thick, solid, equal, firm, incurved, often excentric, even (not 

 scaly), mealy above the ring, yellow. Ring inferior, reflexed, 

 entire. Gills adnate, crowded, comparatively broad, plane, yellow, 



at length becoming ferruginous. 



Spores ferruginous. Solitary. It must be carefully distinguished from a 

 somewhat ringed form of A. hybrid us. 



On trunks. Highgate. Oct. 



Spores 7x4, W.G.S. Name after Juno. Beautiful. Fr. Monogr. \. p. 

 315. //rw. Eur. p. 223. Sv. Bot. t. 584. B. & Br. n. 1231. C* Hbk. n. 

 302. Ill ust. PL 369. Saimd. & Sm. t. i8./. 3-6. 



513. A. tuberculosus Schaeff. Pileus 2-4 mm. (1-2 lin.) broad, 

 tawny-yellow, compactly flcsJiy, convexo-plane, obtuse, sometimes 

 depressed, very dry, properly smooth, but broken up into innate, 

 broad, adpresscd scales ; flesh becoming yellow, not very thick. 

 Stem curt, scarcely exceeding 2.5 cent, (i in.), 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.) 

 thick, but 12 mm. (^ in.) and more at tJic bulbous base, holloa, 

 incurved, fibrillose, somewhat scaly, often excentric, of a bright 

 light yellow. Ring somewhat membranaceous, reflexed, falling 

 off. Grills cmar^inate, crowded, broad, plane, light yellow then 

 tawny or spotted-ferruginous, edge serrulated. 



Spores ochrey-ferruginous. Solitary. When the ring falls off it may be 

 easily taken for Flammula. Allied to A. curripes. 



On sawdust. Coed Coch, 1879. Oct. 



The typical form is erumpent from the bark chiefly of birch. Spores 7x4 

 mk. I \'.l'. Name tuber, a swelling. \Yith small protuberances. Schccff. 

 t. 79 (a form departing frcm the type). Fr. M>n<^r. i. p. 316. Hym. L.ur. 

 p. 223. Icon. t. 104. B. dr" Br. n. 1863. C. Ill ust. PI. 370. a. 



514. A. curvipes Fr. Pileus 4-5 cent. (1^-2 in.) broad, tawny- 

 yellow or orange, fleshy, ////;/, but slightly firm and tough, convex 

 then expanded, obtuse, 'wholly innato-Jlocculose, then torn into 

 minute scales, dry, not hygrophanous. Stem 2.5-4 cent. (1-1% in.) 

 long, 2 mm. (i lin.) or a little more thick, Jistit lose, equal, incurved, 

 tough, fibrillose or delicately squamulose, light yellow. Ring 

 rarely manifest, commonly floccoso-radiate, soon vanishing. Gills 

 adnate, crowded, 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.) broad, light yellowish, pallid 

 at the sides, at length tawny, edge white, at length Jloccoso-crenate. 



Pileus well formed. Stem sometimes attenuated downwards. Spores 

 slightly tawny. Gregarious, somewhat caespitose, very changeable. From 

 the evanescent ring it may be easily taken for Flammula. 



