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equally broad, truly decurrent, linear, 3 mm. broad. Flesh whitish, 

 hygrophanous. Spores "almost colourless under the microscope, 

 cylindrical-elliptical, 6-7 x 3-Afj,, smooth. Cystidia ventricose-fusi- 

 form, 60-75 x 10-12/x." Kick. Leaf soil, heaths, and peat bogs. 

 July Oct. Uncommon. 



II. Growing on wood, or epiphytal, most frequently caespitose. 



*P. naked not scaly, but here and there rimoso-rivulose. 

 Gills pallid, then rufescent, or becoming fuscous. 



273. P. radicosa (Bull.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 382, t. 361. 



Radicosus, having a root. 



P. 5-13 cm., clay-coloured, then spotted rufous, fleshy, convexo- 

 plane, viscid, becoming dry. St. 7-5-24 x 1-2-5 cm., white, firm, 

 thickened at the base and fusiform rooted, concentrically scaly below the 

 ring, the floccose, erect scales becoming rufous, apex mealy, pruinose. 

 Eing white, membranaceous, distant, rather erect, entire, scaly. Gills 

 pallid, then rufescent ferruginous, rounded behind, somewhat free, very 

 crowded, 6 mm. broad. Flesh whitish, moderately thick. Spores 

 ochraceous, elliptical, 89 x 5/u,, "rough. Cystidia on edge of gill 

 filamentous-clavate, 36-40 x 6-8/-1, thin walled " Rick. Smell plea- 

 sant, like cherry laurel, or bitter almonds. Taste pleasant. Solitary or 

 gregarious. Woods about stumps. Aug. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



274. P. pudica (Bull.) Fr. Pudica, modest. 

 P. 5-10 cm., whitish, or slightly tawny, disc darker, globose, or oval, 



then convex, and expanded, obtuse, umbonate, dry. St. 3-6 cm. x 8- 

 10 mm., whitish, straight, or curved at the base, equal, or attenuated 

 upwards, sometimes excentric, fibrous. Ring white, membranaceous, 

 large, spreading, persistent. Gills whitish, then tawny, adnato-de- 

 current,wide,ventricose. Spores " ferruginous 8 x 5-6 /A " Sacc. Often 

 solitary. In woods on old trunks, at the base of trees, and on elder 

 trunks. May Nov. Uncommon. 



275. P. leochroma Cke. Cke. Illus. no. 384, t. 363. 



\ernv, a lion ; ^<w//,a, colour. 



P. 5-10 cm., bright tawny, whitish at the margin, fleshy, convexo- 

 plane, at length depressed, soft, generally rivulose from the cracking 

 of the cuticle. St. 7-12 cm. x 8-13 mm., paler than the pileus, white 

 above, nearly equal, fibrous. Ring tawny, persistent, membranaceous. 

 Gills pallid, then cinnamon, rounded, adnate, slightly ventricose. 

 Flesh yellowish, somewhat tawny under the cuticle of the p., and at the 

 base of the st. Spores ferruginous, elliptical, 7-8 x 5/x, 1-2-guttulate. 

 Smell and taste pleasant. Edible. Caespitose. Elm stumps. July 

 Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



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