284 FUXGUS-F LOE A. 



* Ciilide of ^ileus jihrillose or floccose. 



Pluteus cervinus. Scliaeff. 



Pileus 2-4 in. across, flesli Avhite, thick at the disc, be- 

 coming very thin towards the margin, campanulate then 

 expanded, even, at first glabrous, then becoming broken up 

 into fibrillose squamiiles that soon disappear, smoky with a 

 yellow, brown, or fawn-coloured tinge; gills free, crowded, 

 2—3 lines broad, white then salmon-colour ; stem 2-4 in. 

 long, ^ in. and more thick, equal, joale with blackish fibrils, 

 solid; spores broadly elliptical, smooth, 7-8 x 5-6; cystidia 

 3Fentricose, often spinose at the apex. 



Agaricus cervinus^ Schaelfer, t. 10; Cke., Hdbk., p. 114; 

 €ke., Illustr., pi. 501. 



On trunks and stumps. 



Solitary. Pileus 2-3 in. broad, carnose, here and there 

 wrinkled, campanulate, at length more or less plane, umber, 

 at length dark-brown ; gills free, ventricose, moderately 

 •close, at first white, then rose red. The texture consists of 

 long cells, and between the asci which cover their surface 

 under a high power at tolerably regular distances are trans- 

 parent bodies, longer than the asci, ending in two or three 

 ■curved spiculae ; spores round, rose-colouied ; stem 3-4 in. 

 high, firm, thicker at the base, whitish or here and there 

 •of the colour of the pileus, but paler, covered with fine black 

 rstreaks. (Ditm.) 



Var. patricius, Schulz., in Kalchbr., Icon. Hung., t. 10, 

 f. 2; Cke., Hdbk., p. 115; Cke., Illustr., pi. 565. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, whitish, then smoky-grey or fawn- 

 colour, with umber or cinnamon scales, at length smooth, 

 silky, and shining, and cracked in a radiate manner ; gills 

 as in the typical form ; stem stout, white, shining ; spores 

 elliptical, smooth, 8 X 5-6 /x. 



On dead logs, stumps, &c. 



Var. eximius, Saund. & Smith, Illustr., pi. 38 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 115; Cke., Illustr., pi. 302. 



Pileus 4-6 in. across, flesh thick, convex then expanded, 

 •even, covered with a separable cuticle, umber becoming 

 a-eddish ; gills crowded, free, but very close to the stem, 

 ^ in. and more broad, pale salmon-colour ; stem 4 in. long, 



