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Hbk. n. 345. Illust. PL 444. 6'. Mycol. Scot. n. 324. Compare Trait. Flammula. 

 Austr. f. 14. 



605. A. inauratus Smith. Sulphury yellow. — Pileus 2.5 cent, 

 (i in.) or more broad, fleshy, moist, smooth, furnished with a 

 distinct veil. Stem somewhat hollow, incurved, clothed with 

 innate scales. Gills adnate, with a decurrent tooth, broad, pale- 

 yellowish clay-colour. 



Taste mild, insipid. Allied to A. Jlavidus and A. Junonius. 

 On willows. North Wooton, Norfolk. Nov. 



Name — inauro, to gild. Gilded. From the colour. Worth. Smith. Journ. 

 Bot. 1873,/. 336. C. Illust. PI. 477. 



606. A. conissans Fr. — Pileus 1-7.5 cent. (>^-3 in.) broad, 

 light-yellowish-taji, fleshy, thin, hemispherico-expanded, obtuse 

 (varying umbilicate), smooth, moist ; flesh equal, only 2 mm. 

 (i lin.) thick, white. Stem hollow, 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long", some- 

 times equal, sometimes attenuated downwards, commonly 4-6 

 mm. (2-3 lin.) thick, but often compressed and then 8-10 mm. (4- 

 5 lin.) broad, irregular, twisted, becoiniiig light-yellow-white, white- 

 villous at the base, scarcely becoming ferruginous. Cortina silky- 

 fibrillose, appendiculate. Gills adnate with a decurrent tooth, 

 very crowded, not exceeding 4 mm. (2 lin.) broad, linear, whitish, 

 at length becomiitg fiiscoiis-clay-coloiir. 



Spores very plejitiful, dark ferriiginoits. Densely csespitose, emitting an 

 acid odour. It seems very different from A. Jlavidus, &c., thinner than these, 

 with the habit oi A. fascicular is. 



In woods, &c. Uncommon. Sept.-Oct. 



Spores pruniform oblong, 7-9 mk. Q. Name — Kovts, dust. From its shed- 

 ding abundance of spores. Fr. Mojiogr. i. p. 358. Hym. Ezir. p. 249. B. 

 ^ Br. n. 1243. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 325. C. Illust. PI. 445. A, pulverulentus 

 Bull. t. 178. 



607. A. inopus Fr.— Pileus 5-10 cent. (2-4 in.) broad, honey-tan 

 or reddish-tan (not changeable), paler round the margin, fleshy, 

 thin, convex then expanded, obtuse, slippery when moist, almost 

 viscous, arid when dry, even, smooth; flesh thin, of the same 

 colour as the pileus, hygrophanous, white when dry. Stem 7.5- 

 10 cent. (3-4 in.) long, 2-4 mm. (1-2 lin.) thick, [fistiilose, thin, 

 tough, flexuous, equal, adpressedly fibrillose, pallid, brick-colour 

 downwards. Cortina fugacious. Gills adnate, thin, crowded, 

 linear, light-yellow-white, sometimes green. 



There are two forms ; one figured by Bolton with the branched-rooted stem, 

 densely caespitose ; the other (described by Fries) solitary or slightly c^spitose. 



