lOS A CATALOGUE OF ESCULENT BRITISH FUNGI. 



(118.) PANUS TORULOSUS ; The Bavarian Sprout. (PI. V. 



fig. 1.) 



Habitat. On stumps, cliiefly of bircli. In tufts. 



Season. August to October. Uncommon. 



Pileus. Two to three inches across, red-buff or flesh colour, 

 smooth, sleek, leathery ; dimidiate, depressed, concave. Margin 

 incurved, thin, perhaps split. Sessile. Base thick, oblique, 

 greyish, tomentose. 



Section. Flesh pallid, tliickish, tough. Gills pale tan, or red- 

 dish, unequal, not crowded, serrulate, a little crisped, pointed 

 before and behind, decurrent. Odour and taste pleasing. Spores 

 white. 



Obs. Eesembles the preceding. It seems to be very plentiful in Bavaria, 

 and is much esteemed there. It appears to be exported thence to France under 

 the name of Chair de Baviere. — W. D. H. 



Genus PAXILLUS. 



(119,) PAXILLUS INVOLUTUS ; The Paxil. (PL III. fig. 2.) 



Habitat. On the ground in and about woods and copses. 

 Scattered and singly. 



Season. June to November. Very common. 



Fileus. Three to six inches across, clay-colour, dull rusty brown, 

 mottled, moist, viscid in wet ; compactly convex, then plane and 

 depressed, ii-regular, sinuate or repand. Margin involute, tomen- 

 tose, striate when unrolled. 



Stem. One to three inches high, tint of pileus, pale, thick, 

 blunt, continuous, naked, perhaps bent or excentric, tapered to 

 base, firm, sub-tomentose or rough. 



Section. Flesh thick, firm, yellowish, becoming rusty where cut. 



Stem solid. Gills pale ochre, rusty where bruised, numerous, thin, 



unequal, moniliform below, furcate, anastomosing, broad, attenuate 



back and front, separable, decurrent. Odour of musty meal. 



Taste bland. Spores rusty brown. 



Ohs. In chapter vii. It must not be confounded with any of the Lactars 

 growing side by side with it, but it is easily recognisable. It is of inferior 

 llavour and tough, but wholesome, substantial, and nutritious. I think our 

 ])easantry and rural poor might be benefited by knowing of it, as is the case 

 abroad.— jr. D, II. 



Genus RUSSULA. 

 Obs. We have twenty-eight species, of which eleven are esculent and several 



