Flam mul a 



AGARICACE.^ 



147 



c. Pusillce. 



668. H. magnimamma Karst. (from the large umbo : mag/ius, large, 

 mamma, breast) a. 

 P. plane, ochreous-red, then pale yellowish. St. stuffed or 

 fistulose, smooth, naked, colour as P. G. adnate, subsinuate, 



ferruginous. 



1 x i± x i in. 



Amongst grass, under apple-trees. Sept. 



669. H. petiginosum Quel, (from the scurfy-hoary pileus • petigo, 

 scab) a b c. 

 P. convex, subumbonate, hoary-silky, brown or shaded ochreous, 

 rufescent, slate or purplish. St. stuffed, rufescent, paler above, 

 white-pulverulent. G. slightly adnexed, or free, crowded, 

 olivaceous-brown or shaded rufescent. 

 Woods, beech. Oct. 1 x i£ X \ in. 



XXVII. FLAMMULA Quel. 

 (From the frequent flame-like colours ; flamma, a flame.) 



Veil fibrillose, fugitive or obsolete. Hymenophore confluent and 

 homogeneous with the fleshy stem. Pileus fleshy, margin at first 

 involute. Stem central, subannulate or simple, fleshy-fibrous, not 



Fig. 36. — a, section of Flammula gymnopodia Quel. ; 

 B, ditto F.Jlavida Quel. One-third natural size. 



mealy above. Gills decurrent or adnate, without a sinus, commonly 

 entire and of one colour, at first whitish, clay-colour or yellowish, 

 then coloured by the spores. Spores mostly pure ferruginous, some- 

 times fuscous-ferruginous or tawny-ochraceous. (Fig. 36.) 



The species usually grow on wood, some grow on the ground, 

 many are bright yellow, orange or orange-brown in colour. Some 

 agree in structure with Clitocybe and Clitopilus, those growing on 

 wood approach P/ioliota, and agree with Armillaria and in part with 

 Hebeloma and Stropharia. Species 670 — 702 



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