PAXILLUS. 11 



In pine woods on trunks and on the ground. Commonly 

 solitary. 



Robust, firm, often large ; usually solitary. Stem solid, 

 elastic, 2-3 in. long, J-1 in. thick, subequal, not tuberous, 

 curved, ascending, routing, covered densely with umber- 

 black tomentum, which sometimes has a violet tinge. Pileus 

 compact, fleshy, excentric, plane then iufundibulifurm, some- 

 times entirely lateral and ascending, 2-4 in. and more broad, 

 dry, surface cracked into granules, sometimes tomentose, 

 ferruginous, form various. Gills adnate, hardl}^ decurrent, 

 and appearing from their position, ascending, branched at 

 the base, rather anastomosing but not porose as in P. 

 involutiis^ crowded, 3 lines broad, yellowish, readily separating 

 from the grooved flesh of the pileus. Spores almost clay- 

 colour, paler than those of P. involutus. (Fries.) 



Paxillus crassus. Fr. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, oblicjue, almost plane, even, becoming 

 ferruginous ; flesh thin at the margin, thick at the centre 

 and passing insensibly into the stem, soft and spongy, 

 yellowish-brown ; gills decurrent, 2 lines broad, rather 

 distant, straight, not anastomosing, cinnamon ; stem -},— 5- in. 

 long, tapering downwards, excentric, ascending, stuiFed, 

 coloured like the pileus ; sj^ores elliptical, ferruginous, 

 15-18 X 7-S IX. 



Paxillus crassus. Fries, Epicr., p. 318; Cke., Hdbk., -p. 288; 

 Cke., Illustr., pi. 877. 



On trunks, worked wood, &c. 



The present species looks much more like a Flammula than 

 a Paxillus. 



Paxillus panuoides. Fr. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, dimidiate, shell-shaped or fan- 

 shaped, minutely pubescent then almost smooth, sessile or 

 extended behind into a stem-like base, dingy yellow ; gills 

 decurrent, crowded, branched, crisped or rugulose, yellow ; 

 flesh of pileus 2 lines thick, equal. 



Paxillus panuoides, Fries, Epicr., p. 318 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 

 288 ; Cke., Illustr., pL 878. 



On pine and other wood, on sawdust, &c. 



Very variable. 



Yery distinct from the preceding species in the jpileus 



