382 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



at first silky then glal irons, pale yellow, disc darker, often 

 tinged tawny; gills adn ate, crowded, 3-4 lines broad, pale 

 yellow, becoming clonded with grey ; stem 3-5 in. long, 3-5 

 lines thick, subcqnal, Hoecoso-fibrillose, whitish, basal portion 

 brownish, ajiex mealy, liollow ; spores elliptical, 7 X 4 /x. 



Agaricus (Hiiplwloma) epixanthus. Fries, Epicr., p. 222 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p." 203 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 5G0. 



On old fir stnmps, &c. Fasciculate. Smell rather strong. 

 Known by the clear pale yellow gills. Not deliquescing. 



Stem hollow, about 3 in. long, 3-4 lines tliick, attenuated 

 from the base, thickened, or equal, floccoso-fibrilloso, pale 

 ferruginous or brownish below, ajiex mealy. Veil appen- 

 diculate, white. Pileus fleshy, rather thin ; not hygro- 

 l)hanous, convexo-plane, obtuse or gibbous, 2-3 in. broad, 

 even, silky then almost glabrous, yellow or pallid, disc 

 usually darker. Flesh white, becoming tinged with yellow. 

 Gills adnate, crowded, at first whitish-yellow, at length grey, 

 not deliquescent, neither purplish nor green. Size very 

 variable ; smell acid. (Fries.) 



Hypholoma fascicularis. Tluds. 



Fasciculate, intensely bitter. Pileus 1-2 in. across, cam- 

 panulato-convex then expanded, subuml)onate, thin, glabrous, 

 even, tawny, margin yellow ; gills adnate, very crowded, 

 narrow, yellow then greenish, subdeliquescent; stem 3-4 in. 

 long, 2-3 lines thick, fibrillose, yellow, as is also the flesh, 

 curved or flexuous, hollow; veil sometimes appendiculate ; 

 spores elliptical, 7 X 4 yu.. 



Agaricus fascicularis, Hudson, Flor. Angl., j). Glo ; Fries, 

 Syst. Myc.i. p. 288; Cke., Hdbk., p. 203 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 501 

 and 5G2 (the latter called Ag. fascicularis, var. claeodcs, Fr.) 



On old stumps, &c. 



Gregarious, densely caespitose. Pileus 2 in. broad, at 

 first conic then expanded, more or less irregular fi'om the 

 tufted mode of growth, subcarnose, thick in the centre, 

 tawny, the margin thin, j^ellow, with portions of the veil 

 adhering to it, often stained with the fcrruginous-purplo 

 spores. Gills green, clouded, adnate, with a subdccurrent 

 tooth. Spores elliptic. Stem 2-0 in. high, 2 lines thick, 

 curved and unequal, hollow, fibrillose or squamulosc, yclloAv, 

 greenish above. Ping stained Avith the spores, leaving 



