388 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Hypholoma velutinus. Pers. 



Pileus 2-4 iu. across, rather fleshy, campanulate then 

 expanded, at length obtusely umbonate, even, at first 

 tomentose with adpressed fibrils, then almost glabrous, 

 hj^grophanous, flesh very thin, coloured like the pileus ; 

 stem 3-4 in. long, 3-5 lines thick, hollow, silky-fibrous, dirty 

 clay-colour : gills separating from the stem, rather crowded, 

 brownish then bay-brown, spotted with black; spores 

 elliptical, 10 X 5 fx. 



Agaricus velutinus, Persoon, Syn., p. 409; Fries, Hym. 

 Eur., p. 293 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 205 ; Cke., Illustr., ph 563. 



Amongst grass, &c. Size variable, often very large, 

 fragile. Not caespitose. 



Subcaespitose, fragile ; stem hollow, up to 4—5 in. long, i 

 in. and more thick in the largest forms, in smaller forms 2 

 in. long, 2 lines thick,- equal, silky-fibrillose, tomentose above 

 from the veil, dingy clay-colour ; veil especially attached to 

 the margin of the pileus, woolly, at first white, then blackish ; 

 pileus rather fleshy, campanulate then expanded, at length 

 obtusely umbonate, not squamose, but when young entirely 

 tomentose with adpressed filirils, at length almost glabrous 

 and even, 2-4 in. broad, livid when fresh, tawny Avhen half 

 dry, dirty clay-colour when dry. Flesh very thin, coloured 

 like the pileus, fragile. Gills adfixed and readily seceding 

 (almost free), broad (4-5 lines in larger form), not crowded, 

 at first brownish, margin white, then bay-brown, spotted 

 with black. (Fries.) 



Hypholoma velutinus. Pers. (3. leiocephalus. 



Pileus hygro]ihanous, rugged, smooth except at the 

 margin, which like the stem is fibrillose, apex of stem 

 farinose. 



On old stiinips. 



Densely caespitose ; much smaller tlian the common form, 

 but apparently a mere variety, though a very striking one, 

 itom its smooth, but very rugged disc. (B. & Br.) 



Hypholoma pyrotrichus. Ilolmsk. 

 I'ileus 2-4 in. across, rather fleshy, conical, then hemi- 

 Bi)herical, obtuse, covered with orange-tawny fibrils collected 



