142 FUNGUS-FLOKA, 



Agaricus (Flanmmlci) Jielomorphus, Fnes, Epicr., p. 184; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 172 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 449a. 



On the ground in pine woods, Szg. 



Scattered. Pileus often obtusely umbonate, stem sometimes 

 slightly thinner downwards, rather silky above under a lens; 

 distinguished by its small size and white colour. Flammula 

 scamha, its nearest ally, is known by the flocculose stem which 

 eventually becomes tinged with tawny. 



Flammula scam.ba. Fr. 



Pileus j-li" in« across, rather fleshy, convex then plane 

 and more or less depressed, viscid in wet weather, floccosely 

 villose, dingy white ; gills adnato-decurrent, crowded, some- 

 what wavy, 2 lines broad, pale j^ellowish clay-colour ; stem 

 1-1 J in. long, 1 line or more thick, incurved, flocculose, white, 

 usually thinner downwards, partly stuffed ; spores elliptical, 

 yellowish, 10-12 x o-6 fx. 



Agaricus (Flammula) scamhus, Fries, Obs., ii. p. 45 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 172 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 449b. 



In pine woods, on larch and on the ground. 



Gregarious, tough, variable in form, pileus sometimes 

 convex and umbonate, stem becoming ferruginous down- 

 wards, and the pileus tinged pale dingy ochraceous. 



Flammula filicea. Cooke. 



Pileus |-li in. across, flesh thin, convex then plane or 

 slightly depressed, minutely squamuloso-fibrillose, deep yel- 

 low, tawny-orange in the centre ; gills adnate, crowded, 

 about 1^^^ line broad, sulphur-yellow, at length tawny cinna- 

 mon; stem l|-2 in. long, 1^ line thick, equal, even, almost 

 smooth, sulj)hur-5'ellow, base often tawny, hollow ; veil 

 adhering to the stem and the margin of the pileus in reddish, 

 fugacious fraojnients. 



Agaricus (Flammula) filiceiis, Cke., Seem., Journ. Bot. (1863), 

 p. 66, t. 3, f. 1 ; Clce., Hdbk., p. 173; Cke., Illustr., pi. 450. 



On old tree-fern stems. In all probability an introduced 

 species. Piemarkable for the sulphur-yellow colour of every 

 part, flesh also. 



Flammula purpurata. Cke. & Mass. (fig. 15, p. 3.) 

 Pileus 1-2 in. acfoss, fleshy, convex then expanded, ob- 



