The Scottish Naturalist. 21 



Very distinct from its bulb. Pileus pale reddish-yellow, 

 rufescent, pallid, at first covered with fibrils, then naked, 

 soft. Gills at length of the same colour as the pileus, 

 distant. 



In pine wood. Rare. Sep. 



East. — — — — Moray — 



West. _____ 



Rothiemurchus. Rev. Dr. Keith. 

 England. Europe. 



* A. (Clitocybe) cerussatus Fr. var. difformis Schum. Fr. 



Hym. Eur. p. S6. 



Caespitose, often gigantic. Pileus undulato-lobed ; 



stem curt, longitudinally wrinkled ; gills at length pallid. 



It varies with the pileus, at first sprinkled with flocci, 



2-7 in. broad in the same cluster, and the stem of the 



larger specimens 1 in. thick and long. 



Roxburgh. Rev. David Paul. 



3006. A. (Clitocybe) vermicularis. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 98. 



Pileus slightly fleshy, umbilicate, then reflexed, infundi- 

 buliform, repand, even, smooth, moist, becoming pale ; 

 stem hollow, soon compressed, smooth, shining, and, as well 

 as the decurrent very crowded thin gills, white. 



Somewhat fragile ; pileus of a beautiful red or flesh- 

 colour, then tan (almost hygrophanous), most frequently 

 undulato-lobed. 



In fir wood. Sep. 



East. — — — — Moray — 



West. — — — — 



Chapelton wood, Forres. Rev. Dr. Keith. 

 Europe. 



* A. fusipes Bull. var. oedematopus Schaeff. Fr. Hym. Eur. 



p. 112. 



Somewhat caespitose. Pileus conical, then become 

 plane, date-brown-fuscous, and, as well as the stout 

 ventricose fibrillose stem, pulverulent ; gills pallid. 

 On decorticated beech, Glamis. J. S. 



3007. A. (Pleurotus) spongiosus Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 167. C. 



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