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thickened and yellow at base, viscid with the veil, fibrillose or 

 furnished with black scales ; cortina forming a fugacious ring. 



G. glittiiiosiis is frequent in pine woods from late summer to 

 early winter. A beautiful variety of this plant, generally small, has 



a bright rose-coloured pileus and white 

 stalk, rosy at the base. 

 \f Possibly edible, but taste watery- 



mouldy. 



85. Gomphidius viscidus Fr. — Pileus 

 rich red-brown, at first campanulate, then 

 expanded and umbonate, slightly viscid, 

 shining when dry ; flesh bright yellowish ; 

 gills deeply decurrent, distant, somewhat 

 olive, at length fuscous-purple ; stalk solid, 

 nearly equal, yellowish, rhubarb-coloured 

 within, scaly-fibrillose, not very viscous ; 

 cortina forming a floccose fugitive ring. 



-Gomphidius viscidus /^ ■ j ■ i _ j l i. 



(One-filth natural size.) G- viscidiis \s 3. large and extremely 



handsome fungus, common in woods, chiefly 

 of pine, from late summer to late autumn. Odour not unpleasant. 

 The Rev. Wm. Houghton says that Gomphidius ghttinosus and 

 G. viscidus are quite wholesome and very good. 



GENUS VI —PAXILLUS Fr. 

 In PaxiUus the gills are membranaceous, somewhat branched, 

 and anastomosing, spores ferruginous or ding}^ white; the pileus 

 is at first involute. Some species are terrestrial ; others grow on 

 stumps, sawdust, etc. There are fifteen British species of Paxillus ; 

 one is represented by a model. 



86. Paxillus involutus Fr. — Pileus deep dull ochrey-ferruginous, 

 darker in wet than dry weather, at first downy, then smooth, convexo- 

 plane, then depressed, somewhat viscid 

 when moist, shining when dry, villous 

 at the very involute margin ; flesh com- 

 pact, pallid, mottled ; gills dull yellow, 

 decurrent, branched, anastomosing and 

 forming pores near the stem, becoming 

 brownish when touched : sometimes the 

 gills are entirely replaced by pores, and 

 then it resembles Boletus ; stalk fleshy, 

 firm, solid, thickened upwards, naked, 

 dingy yellowish, spotted. 



P. involutus is a very common and 

 somewhat large inhabitant of woods and 

 open places near woods, from summer to _. „ „ ,, ■ , , ,r 



^ , '^ . r- • 1 1 j-i 1 Fir. 38. — Paxillus invohitus Fr. 



early wmter. Said to be edible, and (Onc-quarternatuiai size.) 

 highly esteemed in Russia; it is eaten in Belgium. It was tried 



