HYPHOLOMA. 389 



into minute rather adpressed squamules, flesh and veil 

 tawny ; stem 3-4 in. long, 3-5 lines thick, equal, fibrillose 

 or with squarrose squamules, becoming tawny, hollow ; gills 

 adnate, pallid then brownish, 2-3 lines broad; spores 

 elliptical, 11 x 6 /x. 



Agaricus pyrotrichus, Holmskiold, Ot. ii. t. 35 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 205 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 564. 



On the ground near trunks, stumps, &c. Caespitose. 

 Very showy, pileus often bright orange-tawny, veil fringing 

 the margin, which is a little incurved. Stem fibrous, soft, 

 often with squarrose squamules. 



Tufted, rather firm. Stem hollow, fibrous, soft, 2-3 in. 

 long, 2-3 lines thick, equal, or very slightly thickened at 

 the base, fibrillose, commonly squarrosely squamulose, 

 becoming tawny. Veil conspicuously append iculate, tawny. 

 Pileus rather fleshy, at first hemispherical, obtuse, then 

 expanded, 3 in. broad, densely covered with tawny fibrils 

 that are collected into minute subdepressed squamules, colour 

 hence tawny or orange-tawny, persistent. Flesh tawny. 

 Gills adnate, rather crowded, broad, at first pallid, margin 

 flocculose, white, then brownish, at length free. (Fries.) 



Var. egregius. Massee. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, convex, obtuse, ochraceous, with 

 numerous small, orange-red squamules, margin incurved, 

 fringed with the remains of the veil, flesh thick in the centre, 

 becoming very thin towards the margin ; stem 4-5 in. long, 

 f in. thick, hollow, pale ochraceous, below the ring covered 

 with spreading squarrose whitish scales, above the ring 

 smooth ; gills crowded, broadly adnate, i in. broad, purple- 

 brown, margin white; spores broadly elliptical or nearly 

 globose, apiculate, purple-brown, smooth, G x 4-5 fx, cystidia 

 none. 



In a fir wood, Scarborough, October, 1880. Fasciculate, 

 near to stumps. Difi'ers from the typical form in the densely 

 shaggy stem. Flesh of pileus and stem pale ochraceous. 



**** FLOCCULOSI. 



Hypholoma cascus. Fries. 

 Pileus 1-2'- in. across, rather fleshy, oval then expanded, 



