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and usually with a rufous tinge, even ; flesh watery, pale 

 yellowish-green; gills adnate, crowded, 1^ line broad, pale 

 yellow, then ferruginous ; stem 2-4 in. long, about 2 lines 

 thick, subequal, more or less fibrillose, but with a distinct 

 cuticle, pale yellow or the colour of the pileus, hollow ; spores 

 yellow-brown, elliptical, 9 X 5 /a. 



Agaricus (Flammula) spiimosus, Fries, Syst. Myc, i. p. 252 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 169 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 476. 



In fir woods, on sawdust, &c. 



In pine woods on the ground, very abundant, rare on 

 trunks, Gregarious, more or less caespitose, inodorous, 

 yellow, stem yellow or olive-brown, often attenuated down- 

 wards. Very viscid in wet weather. 



Flammula carbonaria. Fr. 



Pileus 1-2 in. across, fleshy, convex, then almost plane, 

 thin, even, viscid, often depressed in the centre, margin 

 inflexed, tawny-j^ellow, flesh rather firm, yellow ; gills 

 adnate, crowded, 2-3 lines broad, pale then brownish clay- 

 colour ; stem 1 1-3 in. high, 2-3 lines thick at the apex, 

 equal, or often attenuated downwards, rigid, pallid, base 

 usually darker, fibrilloso-squamulose, imperfectly hollow; 

 Bpores ferruginous-brown, elliptical, 7 x 3'o /x. 



Agaricus (Flammula) carhonarius, Fries, Syst. Myc, i. p. 252 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 169; Cke., Illustr., pi. 442. 



On burnt earth, charcoal, &c. 



Sometimes with pileus 3 in. diam., and stem to 4 in. long ; 

 usually smaller. (Cooke.) 



Gregarious, tough, 1 in. or a little more broad, pileus 

 rather tawny, flesh yellow, spores ferruginous -brown. 

 (Fries.) 



The soil is often rolled together by the mycelium into a 

 small bulb. The blackness at the base of the stem may be 

 from its habitat. Densely gregarious ; very much allied to 

 Flammula spumosa, but very easily distinguished by the 

 fusco-ferruginous spores. Its stature also is smaller, its 

 structure tougher and lasting long, and its colours more 

 intense. (Fr.) 



