FLAMMULA. 129 



pale umber, 5 X 3 /x ; stem about 1 in. long, 3 lines thick, 

 thickened at the base or equal, pale, delicately flocculose, 

 solid. 



Agaricus (Flammula) vinosus, Bull., Champ., t. 54 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 166 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 437. 



On the ground. Ilesh of pileus very thick at the centre, 

 very thin at the margin, gills very decurrent. Bearing a 

 general resemblance to Flammula paradoxa ; the latter, how- 

 ever, is recognised by the yellow gills and larger spores, and 

 by the stem being usually thickened at the base. 



Flammula floccifera. B. & Br, 



Caespitose. Pileus 2 in. across, convex, expanded, tawny, 

 somewhat zoned in drying, sprinkled with white fibrils, 

 rather fleshy ; flesh tawny at the edge and beneath the 

 ciiticle, elsewhere white ; gills moderately broad, rounded 

 behind, adnate, scarcely ventricose, wrinkled transversely, 

 ferruginous, edge white; stem Ih in. high, \ in. thick, 

 attenuated downwards, furfuraceous within the pileus, white, 

 with silky scales, hollow, umber within, ring none ; spores 

 ferruginous. 



Agaricus (Flammula) Jloccifer, B. & Br., Ann. Kat. Hist., 

 n. 909, pL 14, f. 1; Cke., Hdbk., p. 167; Cke., Illustr., 

 t. 438a. 



On stumps of lime. Resembling Hyplwloma velutinus in 

 habit. 



Flammula decipiens. Smith. 



Pileus about 1 in. across, deep clear brown, becoming pale 

 and the centre almost white, convex, sometimes very obtuse, 

 at others umbonate and with a depression round the umbo, 

 dry, minutely squamulose, flesh thick, golden-yellow ; gills 

 decurrent, crowded, 2 lines bread, orange-brown ; stem 

 about Ij in. long, 2-3 lines thick, attenuated downwards, 

 rich tawny, striate, often twisted ; spores orange-brown, 

 elliptical, apiculate at the base, 6-7 X 4 ^. 



Agaricus (Flammula) decipiens, W. G. Smith, Journ. Bot. 

 1869, t. 95, f. 5-8 ; Cke. Hdbk., p. 167 ; Cke., Hlustr., pi. 438b. 



On burnt earth, charcoal, etc. 



Inclined to be fasciculate, ring absent. Flesh of stem 

 brown at the base. Superficially closely resembling Flammula 



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