224 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



adnate, slightly rounded, broad, very entire, pale yellow then 

 ferruginous. (Fries.) 



Pholiota lucifer. Lasch. 



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

 Toecoming nnibonate, viscid, covered at first with darker, 

 adpressed scales which soon disappear, yellow; gills adfixed, 

 narrow, crenulate, almost golden yellow, then ferruginous ; 

 stem 1-2 in. long, equal, rather squamulose, yellowish, base 

 ferruginous, stuffed ; ring distant. 



Agaricus lucifer, Lasch, n. 356 ; Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 222 ; 

 Krombh., t. 3, f. 2. 



On trunks, branches, straw, &c. 



Small (2 in. across), much more slender than PJioUota 

 4xdiposa, from which the present is quite distinct. 



Pileus yellow, becoming, along with the stem, at length 

 smooth ; stem ferruginous without and within, fibrillose. I 

 once found in a pine wood an allied form; subterrestrial, 

 stem hollow, gills emarginate. (Fries.) 



Pholiota flammans. Fr. 



Pileus 1-2 in. across, fleshy, convexo-plane, slightly 

 umbonate, dry, tawny-yellow, with scattered, minute, pale 

 yellow squamules ; gills rather rounded or sinuate, adnexed, 

 crowded, margin entire, yellow then tawny; stem about 

 2—2h in. long, 3 lines thick, equal, rather flexuous, with 

 squarrose squamules up to the superior ring, yellow, stuffed 

 then hollow ; spores elliptical, ferruginous, 8 X 4 /x. 



Agaricus (Pholiota) flammans, Fries, Syst. Myc, i. p. 244; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 146; Cke., Illustr., pi. 368 (the pale 

 squamules on the pileus omitted). 



On pine trunks and amongst pine leaves. 



Subcaespitose. Very elegant. Known by the pale yellow 

 squamules on the tawny yellow pileus, and the scaly stem. 



Stem stuffed then hollow, 3 in. long, 2-3 lines thick, equal, 

 often flexuous, furnished with deep yellow, crowded, squar- 

 rose squamules. Ring membranaceous, entire, near to the 

 pileus, yellow. Pileus fleshy, convex then plane, subum- 

 bonate, 2—1 in. broad, absolutely dry, tawny-yellow, with 

 seattered, superficial, squarrose, sulphur-coloured squamules; 

 margin at first inflexed, then repand. Flesh thin, yellow, 



