RFJ'ORT OF TTIE STATF. P.OTAXIST TQIO JJ 



lamellae close, narrow, adnate, whitish or creamy white becoming 

 purplish brown ; stem slender, equal, hollow, glabrous, pruinose at 

 the top, white, the veil webby, white or whitish attached to the 

 margin of the pileus when young, quickly disappearing; spores 

 5-7 :>. long, 3-4 ,". broad. 



Pileus 2-6 cm broad ; stem 5-7 cm long, 4-6 mm thick. 



Densely cespitose. Decaying wood chiefly in woods of hilly or 

 mountainous districts. August to October. 



1 his name as used by Bulliard appears to have been applied to 

 at least two species antl on this account some confusion has re- 

 sulted. In the Outlines of British Fungology, plate 11, figures 

 3 and 4, two species are evidently included under this name. In 

 Sylloge \ , page 1039, the name is limited to the species represented 

 by figure 3. In our treatment of this species we have limited it 

 to those specimens which best agree with the characters ascribed 

 to it in Sylloge. The agreement is good except in the color of 

 tlie gills, which in our specimens passes from whitish to purplish 

 brown instead of incarnate brown. The peculiar characters of the 

 species are its tendency to form dense tufts, to grow chiefly on de- 

 caying wood, to be very hygrophanous, the difference between 

 the color of the moist cap and the dry being well marked, and in 

 the lateness of its appearance. The dimensions of the spores are 

 given in Sylloge as 6-8 x 3-4 ;>., in British lumgus Flora as 5 x 2.5 //. 

 In our specimens they agree better with those given in Sylloge. 



Fascicularia 



Pileus tenacious, glabrous, bright colored, dry, not hygrophanous. 



The flesh of the pileus in this section is thicker and more firm 

 than in the species of the preceding one. The prevailing colors 

 of the pileus are red and yellow and its surface is smooth and not 

 at all hygrophanous. They usually grow in tufts on dead or 

 decaying wood and appear in autumn. The species resemble each 

 other closely and should be cautiously separated. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES 



Young stem stuffed sublateritium 



Young stem hollow I 



I Prevailing color of the pileus red perplexum 



I Prevailing color of the pileus yellow capnoides 



