228 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Distinguislied by the lurid (dingy brownisli-olive), slight! j 

 Tiscid, glabrous pileus and the straight white stem. 



Pholiota Cookei. Fr. 



Pileus 1-2 in. across, conical then convex, viscid when 

 moist, dirty pale yellow or yellowish-white, clad with 

 scattered, darker, adpressed scales ; flesh thin, white ; gills 

 adnate, slightly ventricose, 1^^ in. broad, pale, at length 

 brown; stem about 2 in. long, and 2 lines thick, equals 

 fibrillose wp to the very thin, imperfect, superior ring, whitisli 

 upwaids, reddish-brown below ; solid ; spores narrowly 

 elliptic-fusiform, brownish, 6 X 2'o fx. 



Agaricus (Pholiota) Coolcei, Fries, Grev., vol. v. p. 56, t. 82^ 

 f. 1 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 147 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 354. 



On the ground amongst grass, &c. 



Solitary or in small clusters. Care must be taken not to- 

 confound the jjresent species with some of the terrestrial 

 species of Flammula. Distinguished from Flioliota terrigena 

 by the absence of an olivaceous tinge on the gills. 



Pholiota confragosa. Fr. 



Pileus 1-H in. across, flesh thin, convex then plane^ 

 obtuse, hygrophanous, margin striate, rufous-cinnamon, 

 tawny when dry, at first covered with minute, w^hitisk 

 floccose squamules, then naked ; gills adnate, 1 line broad, 

 very much crowded, reddish-brown ; stem about 2 in. long, 

 equal ; below the distant ring obsoletely fibrillosely 

 peronate, hollow, rufous, spores elliptic-oblong, ferruginous, 

 8 X 4/x. 



Agaricus (Pholiota) cotifragosus, Fries, Epicr., p. 169; Fries, 

 Icon., ii. p. 4, pi. 105 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 148. 



On trunks, &c. 



A very distinct and remarkable species. Subcaespitose, 

 fragile. I have seen two forms: (1) Small (young), stem 

 1 in. long, 2 lines thick, fibrillosely peronate by the veil and 

 terminating near the apex in a membranaceous, joersistent, 

 spreading ring, stem above the ring striate, naked. (2) 

 (Old), stem up to 3 in. long, but slender, scarcely a line 

 thick, and like the pileus, naked, ring collapsed. Colour 

 cinnamon-rufoiis, tawny when dry. Gills adnate, linear, 

 very narrow, much crowded, very thin, cinnamon-rufous, 

 sometimes tinged with pu]p)le. (Fries.) 



