PHOLIOTA 121 



separating, thin, broad, edge yellowish. Flesh whitish, or yellowish, 

 thin. Spores fuscous, elliptical, "7-8 x 4-5 /u," Harper. Gregarious. 

 Beech trunks. Sept. Eare. 



291. P. erinacea (Fr.) Quel. (= Naucoria erinacea Fr.) Cke. Illus. 

 no. 513, t. 480, as Naucoria erinacea Fr. Erinaceus, a hedgehog. 



P. 5-15 mm., ferruginous-umber, scaly and prickly with very dense, 

 crowded, fasciculate, squarrosefiocci, slightly fleshy, convex, umbilicate; 

 margin at first involute, appendiculate with the fibrillose remains of the 

 ring. St. 1-1-5 cm. x 2-3 mm., concolorous, tough, equal, incurved, 

 everywhere shaggy with strigose hairs. Ring yellowish, fibrillose, ferru- 

 ginous on the under side. Gills concolorous, adnate, subdistant, ventri- 

 cose. Flesh reddish, dry, tough. Spores ferruginous, elliptical, 

 9-11 x 6-7 /i, 1-2-guttulate. Dead branches. Jan. Dec. Not un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



292. P. cruentata Cke. & Sm. Cke. Illus. no. 399, t. 502. 



Cruentata, stained with blood. 



P. 45 cm., yellow, then turning red, breaking up into darker, ad- 

 pressed scales, fleshy, convex, then expanded, obtuse; margin in- 

 curved. St. 3-5 cm. x 6-8 mm., concolorous, curved, attenuated at 

 the base and rooting, dark red brown and sparsely squamulose below. 

 Ring fibrillose. Gills yellow, then clay colour, emarginate, rather dis- 

 tant, 4-6 mm. broad, finally separating from the stem. Flesh pale 

 yellow, at length changing to cinnabar colour. Taste insipid. Oak 

 stumps, and burnt ground. Aug. Sept. Uncommon. 



***Hygrophanous. Gills cinnamon (not at first light yellow). 



293. P. paxillus Fr. Paxillus; like the species Paxillus involutus. 

 Entirely cinnamon. P. 7-15 cm., subcompact, convexo-gibbous, 



then expanded, moist, rather repand, becoming pale, somewhat silky 

 when dry. St. 8-16 x 1-5-2 cm., firm, slightly attenuated upwards. 

 Ring white, membranaceous, narrow, spreading. Gills decurrent, 

 crowded, broad. Flesh concolorous, compact. Trunks. Sept. Oct. 

 Rare. 



294. P. dissimulans B. & Br. Cke. Illus. no. 400, t. 371. 



Dissimulans, deceiving. 



P. 2-3 cm., lurid, becoming pale, or whitish, campanulate, very 

 obtuse, at length flattened, scarcely viscid, hygrophanous ; margin 

 involute. St. 3-5 cm. x 3-4 mm., shining white, thickened down- 

 wards, fistulose with transverse dissepiments, base cottony. Ring erect, 

 mostly persistent. Gills pallid clay colour, sinuato-adnate, at length 

 decurrent. Flesh white, thin. Spores fuscous, elliptical, 7 x 4-4-5/>t. 

 Sloe and hawthorn sticks. Oct. Nov. Rare. 



