112 PHOLIOTA 



a separating, ferruginous scurf, apex flocculose. Ring membranaceous, 

 externally flocculose and ferruginous-furfuraceous, internally golden- 

 tawny, about 2-5 cm. distant from the p., properly inferior, but 

 appearing to be medial, at first erect, then spreading, sometimes 

 small, often however wide, laciniate. Gills pallid ferruginous, adnexed, 

 then free, attenuated at both ends, ventricose, crowded, connected 

 by veins. Flesh white, becoming yellow. Spores fuscous, elliptical, 

 9-10 x 4-5ju, 1-guttulate. Cystidia none. Subcaespitose. On the 

 ground, and on sawdust heaps. Aug. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. Vahlii (Schum.) Fr. Fl. Dan. 1. 1498. M. Vahl in Flora Danica. 

 Differs from the type in the smooth pileus, and somewhat free gills. 



var. Herefordiensis Renny. Cke. Illus. no. 374, t. 347. 



Herefordiensis, belonging to Hereford. 

 Differs from the type in the granulate, tuberculate stem. 



264. P. terrigena Fr. (= Pholiota Cookei Fr. sec. Massee.) Fr. Icon, 

 t. 103, fig. 1. Terra, earth; yiyvo/jiat, to be born. 



P. 3-8 cm., dingy yellow, fleshy, convex, or lens-shaped, then 

 flattened, obtuse, adpressedly silky with fibrils, fibrillosely scaly towards 

 themargin. St. 4-5 cm. x 4-12 mm., concolorous, equal, fleshy-fibrous, 

 covered withfloccose, squarrose squamules that become ferruginous. Ring 

 thin, torn. Gills pallid light yellow, then olivaceous-ferruginous, adnate, 

 decurrent with a tooth, scarcely crowded, 4 mm. broad. Flesh yellow. 

 Spores ferruginous, "elliptical, 5-8 x 2-3 /x" Karst. Woods, hedge- 

 rows, and old earthy stumps. Aug. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



265. P. erebia Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 377, t. 358. 



e/oe/So?, a place of nether darkness. 



P. 2-5 cm., lurid, or becoming ferruginous-lurid when moist, be- 

 coming pale (ochraceous clay) when dry, slightly fleshy, convex, then 

 flattened, almost viscid, rugulose; margin striate when dry. St. 2-5- 

 5 cm. x 36 mm., fuliginous, becoming pale, equal, often cohering at 

 the base, fibrillose, striate. Ring membranaceous, white, becoming 

 discoloured, sulcate, superior. Gills pallid, then dingy cinnamon, 

 adnate, subdistant. Flesh pale brownish. Spores ferruginous, pip- 

 shaped, 10-12 x 5-6/n, 1-2-guttulate. Woods, pastures, and heaths. 

 Aug. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



266. P. ombrophila Fr. 0/4/8/305, a storm of rain; </>t\o<?, loving. 

 P. 4-8 cm., pale ferruginous when moist, clay colour when dry, con- 

 vex, then plane, gibbous, here and there repand, almost viscid, very 

 hygrophanous; margin striate when moist. St. 5-8 cm. x 4-8 mm., 

 pallid, fragile, equal, obsoletely fibrillose, or slightly striate. Ring 



