168 A CATALOGUE OF BEITISH POISONOUS FUNGI. 



Season. June to N'ovember. Common. 



Pileus. Two to three inches across, sulphur-yellow and greenish, 

 with tawny disc, smooth, glabrous, moist ; conical or convex, then 

 plane and sub-umbonate. Margin thin, involute, fimbriate with 

 veil-fragments. 



Stem. Two to nine inches high, green-yellow, slender, unequal, 

 bent, floccoso-fibrillose, sometimes attenuate and tomentose at 

 base. Ring yellow, fibrous, high, patent, upper side sprinkled 

 with the dark spores. 



Section. Flesh sulphur yellow, thickish, firm. Stem hollow, 

 Gills yellow, then greenish, overlaid by purple-black spores, 

 crowded, unequal, linear, serrulate, moist, denticulato-adnate. 

 Odour and taste repelling. Spores purple-black. 



Ohs. A most dangerous species. The poisonous principle is intensely 

 virulent, and is a drastic irritant. Site and habit are those of the Spindlesbank 

 and Stumptuft, but the colouring of the Hypholomes is distinctive. — W. D. H. 



(XIV.) AGARICUS LACRYMABUNDUS ; Hypholoma lacryma- 

 bunda ; The Crocodile. (Tab. IV. fig. 29.) 



Habitat. On tree-trunks, stumps, and the ground. In tufts. 



Season. June to November. Uncommon. 



Pileus. Two to four inches across, pale red-brown, disc dark, 

 epotted, fibrilloso-squamulose ; campanulate, then convex, expand- 

 ing. Margin thin, firm, even, incurved, fringed with veil-frag- 

 ments. 



Stem. Two to three inches high, whitish above, dingy below, 

 slender, flexuose, firm, elastic, fibrilloso-squamulose, enlarged at 

 base. Ring dusky, floccose. 



Section. Flesh thickish, dingy, firm. Stem hollow. Gills 

 pallid, then red-brown, clouded with dark spores, numerous, 

 ventricose, adnate. Odour repulsive. Taste nauseous. Spores 

 purple-black. 



Ols. Like the preceding in quality. Intensely irritant. It is bowed with 

 the weight of its guilt !—>F. 1>. i/. 



(XV.) AGARICUS SUBLATERITIUS ; Hypholoma sublateritia -, 

 The Red-Tuft. 



Habitat. On stumps, tree-roots, and the ground. In dense 

 tufts. 



