120 PHOLIOTA 



287. P. flamuians Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 104, fig. 1. Flammans, flaming. 

 P. 210 cm., yellow tawny, sprinkled with superficial, pilose, some- 

 what concentric, paler, or sulphur yellow, squarrose, or curly scales, 

 convex then plane, subumbonate. St. 5-8 cm. x 4-10 mm., very light 

 yellow, as are also the crowded squarrose scales, equal, often flexuose. 

 Ring concolorous, floccose, apical. Gills bright sulphur yellow, then 

 ferruginous, adnate, somewhat thin, crowded. Flesh light yellow, thin. 

 Spores ferruginous, elliptical, 8 x 4/u,, 1-guttulate. Cystidia "clavate- 

 bottle-shaped, rarely pointed, 30-33 x 6-8/A, contents becoming 

 yellow" Rick. Gregarious, or solitary. Pine woods. July Oct. 

 Common, (v.v.) 



288. P. tuberculosa (Schaeff.) Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 104, fig. 2, as Pholiota 

 tuberculata. Tuberculosa, having swellings. 



P. 3-5 cm., tawny yellow, compactly fleshy, convexo-plane, obtuse, 

 sometimes depressed, smooth, then broken up into innate, broad, ad- 

 pressed scales. St. 2-5-4 cm. x 4-6 mm., bright light yellow, incurved, 

 base bulbous, rooting, fibrillose, somewhat scaly, often excentric. Ring 

 concolorous, floccose, reflexed, fugacious. Gills light yellow, then tawny, 

 or spotted ferruginous, emarginate, crowded, broad, plane, edge serru- 

 lated, white floccose. Flesh becoming yellow, not very thick. Spores 

 ochrey- ferruginous, elliptical, 5-8 x 3 /n. Solitary, or caespitose. 

 Beech and birch trunks, and on sawdust. Oct. Uncommon. 



289. P. curvipes Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 104, fig. 3. Curvus, bent; pes, foot. 

 P. 3-5 cm., tawny yellow, or orange, fleshy, thin, but slightly firm 



and tough, convex, then plane, obtuse, wholly innato-flocculose, then 

 torn into minute scales. St. 2-5-5 cm. x 2-6 mm., light yellow, equal, 

 incurved, tough, fibrillose, or delicately squamulose, sometimes attenu- 

 ated downwards. Ring floccose, fugacious, rarely manifest. Gills 

 light yellowish, at length tawny, adnate, crowded, 4-6 mm. broad, edge 

 white, at length floccoso-crenate. Flesh yellowish, darker in the stem. 

 Spores slightly tawny, "6-7 x 3-4: /JL" Karst. Smell and taste pleasant. 

 On sawdust, and fallen trunks, especially poplar, birch, and rose 

 bushes. Oct. Rare. 



290. P. muricata Fr. Muricata, pointed. 

 P. 2-3 cm., yellow, covered with innate, fasciculate, granular, or 



needle-shaped, tawny flocci, that are either erect, or convergent like the 

 warts of a Lycoperdon, convex, then expanded, obtuse, or umbilicate. 

 St. 2-5-5 cm. x 2-4 mm., pale yellow, becoming fuscous, covered up 

 to the ring with floccose, subsquarrose, or peronate, brownish tawny 

 squamules, equal, or curved. Ring inferior, small, or incomplete, 

 squamulose, or floccosely radiating, fugacious, like that of Lepiota 

 granulosa. Gills whitish, or yellow, at length pale cinnamon, adnexed, 



