PHOLIOTA 119 



in the stem. Spores fuscous, oblong, 6 x 3/j,, 1-guttulate. Smell and 

 taste very pleasant. Caespitose. At base of oak, and ash trees. Aug. 

 Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



yS. Gills yellow then truly ferruginous, or tawny. 



284. P. spectabilis Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 102. Spectabilis, remarkable. 

 P. 5-13 cm., tawny, or golden yellow, then becoming pale, fleshy, 



compact, convex, obtuse, shining as if varnished in dry weather, torn 

 into adpressed, innate, pilose squamules of the same colour, continued 

 into the veil at the inflexed margin. St. 6-13 x 2-3 cm., sulphur 

 yellow, hard, more or less ventricose, extended into a fusiform root, 

 sheathed with the veil, sometimes squamulose, sometimes smooth, 

 shining, apex mealy. King yellowish, becoming discoloured, inferior, 

 persistent, spreading. Gills pure yellow, becoming ferruginous, adnate, 

 most frequently with a small decurrent tooth, very crowded. Flesh 

 sulphur yellow, reddening when touched, thick, hard. Spores ferru- 

 ginous, elliptical, 8-9 x 5fj,, 1-guttulate. Smell pleasant. Taste bitter- 

 aromatic. Caespitose. Stumps, and at the base of trees, especially 

 ash and apple. Aug. Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



285. P. adiposa Fr. Cke. lUus. no. 395, t. 353. Adiposa, fat. 

 P. 3-17-5 cm., yellow, covered with superficial, floccose, subconcentric, 



fugacious, ferruginous scales, fleshy, convex, then plane, somewhat 

 gibbous, very viscid. St. 6-15 x 1-2-5 cm., whitish, then light yellow, 

 clothed with squarroso-reflexed, separating, ferruginous scales, thickened 

 downwards, viscid. Eing yellow, at length ferruginous, floccoso-radiate, 

 cortinate. Gills pallid light yellow, then ferruginous, adnate, slightly 

 rounded, broad. Flesh yellowish, tawny at the base of the stem. Spores 

 fuscous ferruginous, elliptical, 6-7 x 3-4/u. Beech, ash, and birch 

 trunks. July Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



286. P. lucifera (Lasch) Fr. Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 85. 



Lucifera, light-bringing. 



P. 3-5 cm., yellow, covered with minute, adpressed, fugacious, tawny 

 scales, fleshy, convexo-plane, at length umbonate, sometimes gibbous, 

 viscid, becoming smooth with age. St. 2-5 cm. x 4r-8 mm., yellow, 

 covered with floccose, fugacious, ferruginous scales, pale yellow above the 

 ring, equal, or attenuated downwards. Ring ferruginous, apical, 

 floccose, fugacious. Gills yellow, then cinnamon, or ferruginous, 

 sinuato-adnate, crowded, margin crenulate, pubescent, white. Flesh 

 yellow, ferruginous in the stem. Spores yellow under the microscope, 

 obovate, or subreniform, 7-8 x 5-6 //,. Cystidia "on edge of gill 

 clavate-subulate, 30-35 x 6-8 /x" Rick. Trunks, branches, straw, and 

 burnt earth. Sept. Oct. Rare, (v.v.) 



