114 PHOLIOTA 



elliptical, 8-10 x 4-5 /A, 1-3-guttulate. Cystidia "on edge of gill 

 fusiform-subulate, 30-36 x 7-9 /i" Rick. Lawns, arable fields, and 

 gardens. Aug. Sept. Rare, (v.v.) 



270. P. dura (Bolt.) Fr. Durus, hard. 

 P. 5-9 cm., tawny tan colour, becoming fuscous, fleshy, somewhat 



compact, convexo-plane, obtuse, becoming cracked into patches. St. 

 5-8 cm. x 10-15 mm., yellowish, hard, becoming silky-even, then 

 longitudinally cracked when dry, apex thickened, mealy, sometimes 

 ventricose and irregularly shaped, furnished with fibrillose rootlets 

 at the base. Ring white, membranaceous, thin, apical, often torn, 

 fugacious. Gills white, then livid, or fuscous ferruginous, adnate, 

 striato-decurrent with a tooth, ventricose, 7-12 mm. broad. Flesh 

 whitish. Spores ferruginous, elliptical, 9-12 x 6-8/x,, with a germ- 

 pore. Cystidia " vesiculose-clavate, on edge of gill almost flask- 

 shaped, 36-50 x 12-18/z" Rick. Smell strong. Fields, and gardens. 

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



var. xanthophylla Bres. Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 159. 



gavffos, yellow; <f>v\\ov, a leaf. 

 Differs from the type in the bright sulphur yellow gills. 



271. P. praecox (Pers.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 381, t. 360. 



Praecox, early. 



P. 3-8 cm., whitish, then tan colour, becoming pale, fleshy, soft, con- 

 vex, soon plane, obtuse, moist. St. 4-9 cm. x 6-10 mm., white, be- 

 coming yellowish, equal, at first mealy with white flocci, then somewhat 

 naked, base white floccose. Ring whitish, membranaceous, entire, 

 reflexed, striate above. Gills whitish, then rust coloured, rounded- 

 adnexed, 4-10 mm. broad, crowded. Flesh white, yellowish in the stem, 

 soft. Spores ferruginous, oblong elliptical, 10-13 x 6-8/A, 1-guttulate. 

 Cystidia sack-shaped, often slightly constricted towards the apex, 

 30-40 x 13-15/x. Taste sweet. "Edible," Quelet. Woods, pastures, 

 and roadsides. May Oct. Common, (v.v.) 



var. minor (Batt.) Fr. Minor, smaller. 



Differs from the type in its smaller size (scarcely 2-5 cm. broad), and 

 in the torn, appendiculate ring. Pastures. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



272. P. sphaleromorpha (Bull.) Fr. 



o~(f>a\p6<;, deceptive; fxop(f>ij, form. 



P. 2-5 cm., light yellow, fleshy, thin, convexo-plane, obtuse. St. 

 7-10 cm. x 4-8 mm., yellowish, attenuated upwards, silky, base in- 

 crassated, villose. Ring whitish, membranaceous, very thin, median, 

 ample, spreading, lax, entire. Gills yellowish, then ferruginous-tan, 



