122 AGAKICINI. 



342. Agaricus (Flammula) gummosus. Latch, '* Viscid 



Flammula." 



Pileiis fleshy, plane, floccoso-squamulose, then even, viscid ; 

 stem stuffed, silky, fibrillose, red brown at the base ; gills adnate, 

 crowded, yellow, then cinnamon. — Lasch, Linn. (1827), no. S26. 

 Fr. Epicr. p. 185. B. ^ Br. Ann. N. II. (18CG), no. 1119. Tratt. 

 Aust. f. 38. 



On old stumps. Dec. Cambridge. 



Pileus conical, then depressed, whitish, then olivaceous or greenish yellow, 

 margin pallid, 1-2 in. broad. Flesh yellowish. 



343. Agaricus (riammula) spuznosus. Fr. '* Sulphury 



Flammula." 



Pileus fleshy, thin, even, viscid; stem hollow, equal, slender, 

 fibrillose, yellowish, then discoloured ; gills adnate, yellow, at 

 length ferruginous. — Fr. Epicr. p. 185. >S'. M. i.p.2h2. 



In woods. Epping Forest. [United States.] 



Gregarious, yellow, flesh greenish-yellow ; stem attenuated at the base, 

 at length darker, slender, 2-4 in. long, 2 lines thick, obsoletely fibrillose ; 

 pileus rather fleshy, subumbonate, becoming plane, about 2 in. broad, disc 

 darker.— i^ries. Spores -00023 X -00015 in. 



344. Agaricus (Flammula) caxbonazius. Fr. " Viscid 



Charcoal Flammula." 



Pileus fleshy, becoming plane, then even, viscid ; stem 

 narrowly fistulose, slender, rigid, squamulose, pallid ; gills 

 adnate, clay-coloured brown. — Fr. Ep. p. 186. B. 4" Br. Ann. N. 

 H. (^1866), no. 1120. Seem. Jour.lS68.t.76,f.6-8. Cooke exs. 

 no. 401. 



On charcoal and burnt earth. Nov. Dec, Ascot. Epping. 



This species, remarkable for its viscid pileus, squamulose stem, and adnate 

 clay-coloured gills, occurred in great quantities as above. It is a very late 

 species ; gregarious, tough, 1 in. or more high; pileus rather tawny, fleeh 

 yellow J spores ferruginous, with an apiculus at one end. 



Sect. 3. Udi — moist. 



345. Agaricus (Flamm.ula) flavidus. Schceff. "Yellow 



Flammula." 



Pileus fleshy, convexo-plane, equal, smooth, moist; stem 

 somewhat hollow, fibrillose, yellow, then ferruginous ; gills ad- 

 nate, yellow, then ferruginous. — Fr. Epicr. p. 187. Schcsff. t. 35. 

 Tratt. Austr.f. 14 ? Eng. Fl. Y.p. 94. Ann. N.H. no. 330, 792*. 



