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On trunks of firs, lime, &c. Oct. [S. Carolina.] 



Very various in size ; pilens obtuse, 1-2 in. or more broad, never viscid, 

 when moist dirty yellow ; gills obtnsely adnate ; veil web-like, sometimes 

 forming a ring. Stem stuflfed, sometimes hollow, ferruginous at the base, 

 sometimes attenuated. — Fries. 



346. Agaricus (Flammula) inopus. Fr. "Bolton's Flam- 



mula." 



Pileus fleshy, thin, convexo-plane, moist, smooth; stem fistu- 

 lose, thin, flexnose, with adpressed fibrils, at length brick-red 

 below ; gills adnate, crowded, linear, pallid yellowish, white. — 

 Fr. Epicr.p. 187. Bolt. 1. 148. Batt. t. 22. C. Eng. Fl. v. p. 95. 



On pine tnmks. 



IntrodiTced on the authority of Fries' quotation of Bolton's figure. PileuB 

 ^-2 in. broad ; veil fugacious; stem 3 in. high, \ in. thick. — Eivj. Fl. 



Sect. 4. Sapinei — growing on firs. 



347. Agaricus (Flammula) hybxidus. Fr. " Hybrid 



Flammula." 



Pileus fleshy, hemispherical, then expanded, obtuse, smooth, 

 even, moist ; stem stufi'ed, soft, attenuated upwards, tawny, 

 with a whitish veil, which fonns a ring; gills adnate, rather 

 crowded, pale yellow, then tawny. — Fr. Epicr. p. 189. 



On fir stumps. Gopsall. 



Pileus regular, disc compact, at first tawny cinnamon, then brownish 

 orange ; flesh pallid. 



348. Agaricus (Flamm.ula) decipiens. S))iith. "Charcoal 



Flammula." 



Casspitose; pileus convex, fleshy, minutely sciuamulose, dry, rich 

 brown, becoming pallid ; umbo almost white, stem often swollen, 

 twisted, striate, attenuated downwards, rich tawny ; gills crowded, 

 moderately broad, decurrent, luminous brown, flesh within 

 golden yellow, bright brown at base ; spores bright tawny, ring 

 none. — /Seem. Journ. 1869, p. 249, t. 95, /. 5-8. 



On burnt earth, charcoal, &c. June. Epping. 



Pileus 1 in. across. Stem 2 in. high. Inclined to be fasciculate; mixed 

 in growth with A. (Flammula) carbonariv.s. Fr. Though at a first glance it 

 resembles the latter species, it difi'ers greatly in the attachment of the gills, 

 which are adnate in ^4. carhonarius, but truly decurrent in A. decijpieris. 

 Spores oval, or with an apiculus at one end, *0003 X '00017 in. — W- G. S. 



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