120 AGAEICINI. 



On the ground in woods. Common. [S. Carolina.] 



Pilens 1 in. broad, umbonate, at length sub-inverted, white, lilac, brownish, 

 yellowish, &c., satiny, often rimose. Gills adnate or adnexed,_ ventricose, 

 earthy, net cinnamon, margin white, sub-dentate. Stem 1-3 in. high, 1-2 

 Hues thick, flexuous, equal, or sub-bulbous, firm, very minutely farinaceous 

 above, solid, less compact within. Odour strong and disagreeable. — M.J.B. 



337. Agaricus (Hebeloma) vatricosus. Fr. '"Little 



Hebeloma." 



Pilens rather fleshy, convexo-plane, subumbonate, smooth, vis- 

 cid, silky about the margin : stem fistulose, contorted, pulveru- 

 lent ; gills emarginate; ventricose, whitish, becoming brown. — 

 Fr. Epicr.p. 111. B. ^' Br. Ann. N.H. (1865), no. 1005. 



On dead stumps. Sept. Bodelwyddan, Flintshire. 



Before the veil is ruptured it looks like a smooth Lepiota. — B. d- Br. 

 Small, scarcely exceeding half an inch broad, viscid when young and moist, 

 shining when dry, obsoletely silky at the margin. Inodorous. 



Sub-Gen. 21. Flammula, Fr. S. M. i. p.250. 



Spores in most species purely ferruginous, occasionally ap- 

 proaching yellow ochre, always bright in colour ; veil filamentous, 

 often obsolete ; pileus fleshy, and, as the sub-genus is at present 

 constituted, very variable. It may be, — 1, covered with an in- 

 separable fibrillose cuticle; 2, covered with a more or less viscid 

 and separable cuticle ; 3, pileus moist, and with no separable 

 cuticle ; 4, jjileus neither pelliculose nor viscid, and broken up 

 more or less into scale or fibrils ; stem fleshy, fibrous, confluent, 

 and homogeneous with the hymenophore ; gills adnate, acutely 

 adnate, or decurrent. 



Hab. On the ground or on wood. — (Fl. IV. fig. 21.) 



Fries says the natural afiinity of Flammula is with PJioliota, but I consider 

 all true Flammuloe should correspond with Clitocyhe and Clitojjilus. I suspect 

 some of the species of Flammula that approach Pholiota in structure might 

 with propriety be removed to that sub-genus, and FlamnvaUi proper be re- 

 stricted to species with decurrent gills, Most of the species are tasteless or 

 bitter, and none edible. They appear in late autumn or early winter. Some 

 species of Paxillus may be mistaken for Flammidce, but attention must be 

 paid to the persistent gills, separating from the hymenophore and other 

 characters in Paxillus. — W. G. S. 



Sect. 1. Heterogenei — variable. 



338. Agazicus (Flammula) helomorphus. Seer. 



" White Flammula." 



White; pileus fleshy, convexo-plane, gibbous, unequal, viscid, 

 when dry silky, becoming even; margin naked; stem solid, 



