l8o AGARIC ACE^E Hypholoma 



fibrilloso-annulate. Gills adnate or sinuate. Spores slate-purple. 



(Fig. 45-) 



The species grow on wood and have a caespitose habit. None 

 are edible, some are nauseous-bitter. 



Hypholoma agrees in structure with Ti'icholoma, Entoloma and 

 Hebeloma. Species 821 — 844 



a. Fasciculares. Pileus tough, smooth, dry, except 821 and 828, 



brightly coloured, not hygrophanous. Gills adnate. 



821—828 



b. Viscidce. Pileus naked, viscid. 829, 830 



c. Velutiuce. Pileiis silky with innate fibrils or streaked. 



831—834 



d. Flocculosce. Pileus with floccose superficial separating scales. 



835, 836 



e. Appendiculatce. Pileus smooth, hygrophanous. 837 — 844 



a. Fasciculares. 



821. H. silaeeum Quel, (from its colour ; sil, yellow-ochre) a. 



P. subexpanded, obtuse, viscid, brown-ochreous ; marg. cracked, 



whitish. Si. bulbous, fibrilloso-striate, shining, colour as P. 



G. purplish-brown or grey-olivaceous. 

 Solitary to caespitose. Taste mild ; odour mealy. Old pastures, under firs. 



Aug. -Nov. 2 X 2>h x i i n - N Qt unlike some forms of 822 ; intermediate 



forms occur. 



822. H. sublateritium Quel, (from the colour of the pileus; sub, 



somewhat, later, a brick) a b c. 



P. convexo-plane, obtuse, tawny brick-red ; marg. paler, ap- 



pendiculate with V., sometimes with sc. St. stuffed, attenuate 



downwards, scaly-fibrillose, pale yellow above, ferruginous 



below. G. sinuate, arcuate or decurrent, dull yellow-greenish 



to pale slate-purple. Flesh sulphur-white. 



Caespitose to solitary, sometimes in rings near trees. Probably poisonous. 

 Taste usually bitter-nauseous. Forests, hedgerows, stumps, rails, old pine 

 wood, oak ; common. April-Dec. 3 J x 4! X J in. Polymorphic, P. 

 sometimes 7 in. in diam. Var. Schaeffcri Sacc. G. deeply decurrent. 

 Var. sqtiamosum Sacc. P. brown-squamulose. 



823. H. eapnoides Quel, (from the smoky-tinted gills ; Gr. kapnos, 



smoke, eidos, appearance) a b c. 

 P. subexpanded, obtuse, shining, pale ochreous with mid. sienna- 

 red, or wholly orange. St. hollow, silky, even, elastic, pale 

 ochreous, or whitish above and brownish below. G. sub- 

 crowded, arid, grey to fuscous-purple. 



Taste and odour mild. Woods, pine, pine-stumps ; uncommon. April-Dec. 

 2£ X 5 X § in. 



824. H. epixanthum Quel, (from the yellowish-brown colour ; Gr. 



epixanthos, yellowish-brown) a b c. 

 P. expanded, obtuse, silky, apt to split; marg. lobed, undulate. 

 St. hollow, floccoso-fibrillose, reddish-sienna, darker below. 



