HEREFORDSHIRE FUNGUSES. 
AGARICUS (FLAMMULA) ALNICOLA, Fr. 
THE ALDER FLAMMULA. 
This plant is very variable. It grows in clusters from the old trunks of alder, 
in damp, leafy woods. 
Description.—Plant, grows in crowded clusters. Pileus, 2-3in. broad, fleshy, 
plano-convex, moist but ‘ot viscid, irregular in margin, subfibrillose at first, 
becoming smooth but variable, of a yellowish brown colour. Stem, 2-5in. long, 
stuffed becoming hollow, more or less curved and flexuose, usually narrowing 
towards the base, fibrillose, first yellow, then of a red ferruginous colour. Gills, 
broad, rounded, or slightly decurrent, of dull yellow colour becoming ferruginous. 
Spores, rust coloured. Taste and smell, bitter. A variety of this plant grows 
upon willow, and is called salicicola ; usually of a greenish yellow colour, more 
squamulose, and irregular in growth, often resembling in appearaice Agaricus 
(Pholiota) auricellus.—Fries’ Hpicrisis, p. 248. Fries’ Hymen. Succie I. 386. 
S.M.I., p. 250. Quelet, p. 233. Berkeley and Broome, 1242. Cooke's Grevillea, 
VI., pl. 90. 
This drawing was taken from specimens sent to the Woolhope Club in 1875, 
by Mr. Worthington G. Smith, from Epping Forest. 
