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at all darker, covered more or less with, fibrillose scales, 

 stuffed then hollow. Veil evident, white, appendiculate. 



Agaricus (Flammula) astragalinus. Fries, Syst. Myc, i. 

 p. 251 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 169; Cke., Illustr., pi. 435. 



On pine and fir stumps. 



Very distinct, exceedingly elegant. Stem elongated, base 

 attenuated, coloured like the pileus. Pileus when rather 

 moist blood-red saffron, then the margin becomes pale, flesh, 

 similar in colour, becoming black when wounded. Gills 

 colour of the base of the pileus ; sjoores dingy ferruginous. 

 (Fries.) 



Taste nauseous and disagreeable, like Armillaria mellea. 

 A most beautiful species, resembling in colouring Cortinarius 

 cinnabarinus. (Cooke.) 



Flammula alnicola. Fr. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, convex then expanded, obtuse, rather 

 slimy at first but not truly viscid, at first minutely and 

 superficially silky near the margin, yellow then tawny or 

 greenish ; flesh not veiy firm, coloured like the pileus ; gills 

 slightly adnate, 2 lines broad, plane, pale yellow then 

 ferruginous; stem 2-4 in. long, 3-5 lioes thick, nearly equal, 

 base attenuated, usually curved or wavy, fibrillose, yellow 

 then more or less ferruginous ; spores clear ferruginous, 

 elliptical, 9 x 4 /x. 



Agaricus (Flammula) alnicola, Fries, Syst. Myc, i. p. 250 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 170; Cke., Illustr., tab. 443. 



On trunks and stumps of various trees. Usually fasci- 

 culate. 



Smell strong. Pileus yellow then ferruginous, rarely 

 greenish, flesh similarly coloured. Gills sometimes rounded, 

 at others decurrent. Spores pure ferruginous. Veil fibrillose 

 or interwoven. There are two forms — (a) pileus irregular, 

 fibrillose near the margin, gills at first dingy pallid; 

 (6) salicicola, pileus subgibbous, glabrous, rarely at first 

 tloccosely squamulose ; gills at first yellowish-pallid. (Fries.) 



Flammula flavida. Schaeff. 

 Pileus 1-3 in. across, sometimes more, flesh}', convexo- 

 plane, obtuse, equal, glabrous, moist, not viscid, pale yellow ; 

 flesh white then pale yellow ; gills adnate, 2-3 lines broad, 



