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but not sinuate, usually entire; veil fibrillose, not inter- 

 woven, or altogether absent, never forming a distinct ring on 

 the stem ; spores ferruginous or brownish-ferruginous. 



Flammula, Fries, Syst. Myc, i. p. 250; Cke., Hdbk., p. 166. 



Closely allied to FhoUota, in fact the only difference 

 between the two genera depends on the relative development 

 of the partial veil, which in the present genus is fibrillose^ 

 and consequently does not form a persistent, spreading ring 

 on the stem, whereas in Pholiota the veil is interwoven, and 

 remains as a distinct ring on the stem. 



Yery few species are terrestrial, the majority growing on 

 wood. The colours are often bright, orange-brown or yellow- 

 being most general. 



ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIES. 



I. Gymnoti. — Veil absent; pileus dry, often squamulose. 

 Spores ferruginous. 



II. LuBRici. — Pileus covered with a continuous, viscid, 

 glabrous, partly separable cuticle; veil evident, fibrillose. 

 Spores ferruginous, not tawny, ultimately brownish-fer- 

 ruginous. 



Gregarious, growing on the ground, rarely on wood. Cor- 

 responds to Seheloma, but distinguished by the gills not 

 being sinuate, apex of stem not mealy, pellicle more viscid 

 and more readily separable, smell, &c. 



III. Udi. — Cuticle of the pileus continuous, not separable, 

 glabrous (superficially downy), moist or rather viscid in 

 rainy weather. Veil evident, ajDpendiculate. Spores not 

 tawny nor ochraceous. 



Allied to Pholiota ; caespitose, growing on wood. 



IV. Sapinei. — Pileus scarcely pelliculose (flesh splitting or 

 becoming torn at the surface into squamules), not viscid. 

 Veil silky, adpressed on the stem, not appendiculate, almost 

 absent or forming a silky zone round the stem. Known 

 more especially by the yellow, or yellow then tawny-colour 

 of the gills and the tawny-ochraceous spores. 



