226 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Solitary. Stem hollow, scarcely exceeding an inch in 

 length, 2-3 lines thick, base bulbous, incurved, fibrillose, 

 rather squamulose, often excentric yellow. Ring submeni- 

 branaceous, reflexed, deciduous, hence the species might be 

 taken for a Flammida. Pileus compact, fleshy, but some- 

 times thin, slightly convex, soon plane, obtuse, sometimes 

 depressed, 1-2 in. broad, very dry, tawny-yellow, glabrous, 

 but broken up into innate adpressed scales. Gills sinuate 

 behind, crowded, at first yellow, then foxy or ferruginous. 

 Spores rusty-ochraceous. (Fries.) 



Pholiota curvipoda. Alb. & Schw. 



Pileus 1-2 in. across, flesh thin, yellowish, convex then 

 expanded, obtuse, becoming broken up into minute, ad- 

 pressed, floccose scales, tawny-yellow ; gills broadly adnate, 

 crowded, 2 lines broad, at first yellowish then tawny ; stem 

 1-2 in. long, incurved more or less, 1-2 lines thick, fibrillose, 

 ring floccose, yellow, hollow ; spores ferruginous. 



Agaricus curvipes, Albertini & Schweinitz, Consp., p. 471 ; 

 Fries, Icones, p. 3, pi. 104, f. 3 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 146 ; Cke., 

 Illustr., pi. 370b. 



On trunks. 



Gregarious, subcaespitose, inodorous, very variable. Stem 

 hollow, 1-2 in. long, 1 line thick, equal, crowded, (rarely 

 almost straight, as in the fig Icon., pi. 104, f. 3) tough, 

 fibrillose or slightly squamulose, yellow. Eing rarely 

 evident, usually consisting of radiating fibrils, soon evanes- 

 cent ; and hence easily mistaken for a Flammida. Pileus 

 fleshy, thin, but rather firm and tough, convex then plane, 

 1-2 in. broad, obtuse, dry, tawny-yellow. Pileus when 

 young entirely innato-flocculose, then torn into minute 

 scales. Gills obtusely adnate, crowded, broad behind, 

 yellow, sides pale, at length tawny. Spores ferruginous. 

 (Fries.) 



Pholiota cruentata. Cke. & Sm. 

 Pileus about 2 in. across, fleshy, convex then expanded, 

 obtuse, dry, yellow, breaking up into darker adpressed scales, 

 margin incurved ; gills rather distant, emarginate, 2-3 lines 

 broad, yellow then tan-colour, finally separating from the 

 stem ; stem of the same colour as the pileus, curved, 1^2 in. 



