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AGARICACE^E Entoloma 



467. P. violarius Sacc. (from its bright violet exudation) a b. 



P. expanded, smooth, even, spongy, dry, purple, crimson-purple 

 or sienna. St. hollow, silky-white, black-fibrillose on a pale 

 umber ground below. G. serrulate, crowded. Flesh grey. 



Gregarious. Taste pleasant ; odour none. Stumps, rotten wood. i|xixjin. 



468. P. roseoalbus Gill, (from the rosy-white or salmon pileus) a b. 

 P. expanded, subumbonate. St. solid, pale rose or white. Flesh 



pale salmon. 

 Trunks, elm. Sept.-Nov. 3^ x 3 J X T 5 g in. 



469. P. leoninus Quel, (from the colour of the pileus, often lion- 



tawny) a b c. 

 P. convex, striate, lemon, yellow, orange, tawny or scarlet ; mid. 

 darker ; or orange with sulphur marg. St. solid, yellowish. G. 

 often with a yellowish edge. 



Csespitose. Wood ; rare. Sept. -Jan. 2§ X i\ X \ in. Var. coccineus 

 Mass., P. crimson-orange or vermilion. 



470. P. ehrysophaeus Quel, (from the dusky-golden stem ; Gr. chnisos, 



gold, phaios, dusky) a b c. 

 P. plane, cinnamon ; marg. striate. St. sulphur, sulphur-white or 

 yellowish. G. colour as St., then salmon. 



Taste insipid ; odour none or subacid. Rotten wood, rotten sawdust, 

 rotten ash, beech-stumps, boards, earth, hollow trees. May-Nov. 

 2l X 2\ X § in. 



471. P. phlebophorus Gill, (from the strongly veined pileus ; Gr. 



phleps, a vein, phero, to carry) a b c. 

 P. convex, subumbonate, umber ; marg. plain. St. hollow, white. 



Flesh greyish-white. 

 Dead stumps, rotten wood, sawdust, sticks ; rare. June-Oct. 2 X 2§ x \ in. 



472. P. umbrinellus Gill, (from its umber pileus) a b. 



P. sub membranous, expanded, sometimes subumbonate ; marg. 



fimbriate. St. hollow, fibrous, shining, whitish becoming 



brownish. 

 On the ground. Oct. 1 \ X 2^ x \ in. 



XV. ENTOLOMA Quel. 



(From the potential, rather than definite veil ; Gr. etitos, within, 



loma, a fringe.) 



Veil universal, faintly indicated by silkiness, flock, or scaliness. 

 Hymenophore confluent and homogeneous with the fleshy stem. 

 Pileus somewhat fleshy, margin at first incurved. Stem central, 

 simple, fleshy, fibrous, soft or sometimes waxy. Gills sinuato- 

 adnexed, sinuate or adnate often separating from stem, at first 

 white then usually salmon. Spores elliptical and smooth or sub- 

 globose and coarsely warted, rosy or salmon. (Fig. 24.) 



