398 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



crowded, beautifully connected by veins, yellow, not 

 pminose, sometimes veined. (Fries.) 



Var. badipus, Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 162; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 98 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 273b. 



Stem stuffed, somewhat iibrillose, base slightly bulbous 

 and with tawny down. 



On the ground ; gregarious. 



Pileus 3-11 lines across, broadly campanulate, sometimes 

 quite plane, of a beautiful yellow, inclining to ferruginous, 

 edge slightly silky; gills yellow; stem 1-2 in. high, i-1 

 line thick, scarcely fistulose, yellow above, then rufescent, 

 clothed with little yellow scales, thickest below, and there 

 covered with a dense tawny tomentum. (Cooke.) 



Var. papillata^ Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 162. 

 Pileus acutely conical, at length becoming depressed round 

 the umbo. 



On the ground, in pine woods, &c. 



Var. myriadea^ Kalchb., in Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 162. 



Usually about half the size of the typical form ; densely 

 caespitose, pale tawny, gills pale brick-red with a flesh tinge. 



Covering 2:>ine trunks and imparting a velvety appearance 

 owing to their numbers. 



This var. has not vet been recorded for Britain. 



Omphalia picta. Fr. 



Pileus 3-5 lines across, up to 7 lines high, membranaceous, 

 cj'lindrico-camparjulate, fuscous, disc umbilicate, usually 

 yellow, the perpendicular sides striate, margin entire, paler ; 

 gills adnate, subdecurrent, from the singular form of the 

 pileus, very broad, higher then broad, distinct, distant, 

 whitish then tinged yellow ; stem 2-3 in. long, very slender, 

 horny, rigid, stuffed, straight, glabrous, bay, base discoid, 

 apex slightly thickened, paler. 



Agaricus {Omj;jlialia) pidus, Fries, Epicr., p. 126 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 98 ; Cke., Hlustr., pi. 272c. 



On fallen twigs and branches. 



There are two forms as follows: — B. Pileus conical, 

 papillate ; C. smaller, umbilicus obsolete, disc coloured like 

 rest of pileus ; stem slender, and without the expanded mem- 

 branaceous disc at the base. Among fallen pine leaves. (Fries.) 



