Pholiota AGARIC ACE/E 1 29 



sometimes solid, equal, somewhat squamulose, becoming smooth, 

 whitish above, brown below without and within. A. distant. 

 G. emarginato-adfixed, narrow, crenulate, yellow-white, luminous 

 yellow, then olive or ferruginous. 

 Trunks, branches, straw, almost terrestrial. Odour strong. Autumn. 

 z\ X 2 X f in. 



582. P. flammans Karst. (from its fiery colours) a b c. 



P. convex, subumbonate, yellow or orange; sc. sulphur. St. 



squarrose, sulphur or yellow. A. superior. G. sulphur, then 



brown. Flesh sulphur. 



Gregarious or in clusters. Odour none. Woods, pine, pine-leaves, dead 

 pine-branches. July-Oct. 2 X 2^ X T 5 ^ in. Mycelium often deep orange. 



583. P. Junonia Karst. (from its beauty, belonging to Juno) a b. 



P. convex-plane, subumbonate, yellow to deep sienna-orange. 



St. even, solid, yellow above, sienna below. A. distant. 



G. adnate. 

 Usually solitary. Trunks. Oct. 3§ X 3§ X f in. Must not be confounded 



with 695. 



584. P. tuberculosa Gill, (from the bulbous base of the stem) a b. 



P. convexo-plane, obtuse, tawny or pale sulphur ; mid. brown. 

 St. hollow, subbulbous, attenuato-rooting, fibrilloso-scaly, light 

 yellow or ochre. A. fugitive. G. adnate or emarginate, 

 serrulate. 



Solitary or caespitose. Trunks, birch ; sawdust. Oct. 2 X if X | in. 



585. P. eurvipes Quel, (from the frequently curved stem ; curva, 



a curve, pes, a foot) a b c. 



P. expanded, subumbonate, tawny or orange ; marg. at first 



appendiculate with white V. St. fistulose, fibrillose, light 



yellow. A. floccose, fugitive. G. adnate with a white edge. 



Flesh light yellow. 



Gregarious, subcaespitose. Taste somewhat pleasant-insipid ; not strongly 

 scented. Trunks, sawdust, deal boards in greenhouses. Oct. 2^xi§X^in. 



586. P. eruentata Sacc. (from the blood-coloured scales of the 



pileus ; cruentatus, blood-stained) a b. 

 P. convex, obtuse, yellow; sc. crimson-brown. St. solid, 



attenuato-rooting, subsquamulose below A., colour as P. 



A. fibrillose. G. adnate or emarginate, brown, somewhat 



olive. Flesh pale yellow. 

 Taste insipid. Trunks, oak ; burnt ground. Aug.-Sept. if x ii X J in. 



c. Hygropha?ice. 



587. P. Paxillus Gill, (from its resemblance to 1181, Paxillus invo- 



lutus Fr.) a. 

 P. expanded, subumbonate, ochreous-buff; mid. darker. St. 

 solid, smooth, colour as P., brown at base. A. narrow, 

 spreading. G. subdecurrent, crowded. 

 Trunks. Autumn. 6 X 6| X | in. Sometimes wholly cinnamon. 



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