254 HEBELOMA 



758. H. senescens (Batsch) B. & Br. (= Hebeloma sinuosum Fr. sec. 



Quel.) Senescens, becoming old. 



P. 5-10 cm., ochraceous tawny, convex, then flattened, slightly 

 glutinous, delicately tomentose, margin white. St. 7-12-5 x 1-2-5 cm., 

 fuscous downwards, apex shining white, tomentose, at first bulbous, 

 attenuated upwards, covered with paler, transversely arranged squa- 

 mules. Gills pallid, then cinnamon, adnexed, 4-5 mm. broad, crowded. 

 Flesh white, thick at the disc. Spores pale ferruginous, pip-shaped, 

 8-9 x 5/x, with a large central gutta. Smell strong, acrid. Coniferous 

 woods, and under conifers. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



759. H. glutinosum (Lindgr.) Fr. (= Flammula lenta (Pers.) Fr. sec. 



Quel.) Fr. Icon. t. 112, fig. 1. Glutinosum, sticky. 



P. 5-9 cm., yellow white, disc darker, fleshy, convex, then plane, 

 regular, obtuse, glutinous, slimy in wet weather, sprinkled with white, 

 superficial, fugacious squamules. St. 7-9 x 1-1-5 cm., whitish, be- 

 coming ferruginous downwards, firm, subbulbous, white squamulose, 

 fibrillose, apex white mealy, base strigose. Partial veil manifest, 

 fugacious. Gills pallid, then light yellowish, at length clay cinnamon, 

 sinuato-adnate, subdecurrent, broad, crowded. Flesh whitish, be- 

 coming light yellow, ferruginous in the st. especially towards the base, 

 thick at the disc. Spores pale cinnamon, elliptical, 8 x 3-4 p,, 1-guttu- 

 late, "punctate. Cystidia filamentous, 30-40 x 2-3 /x" Rick. Smell 

 not unpleasant, taste mild. Woods, especially oak and beech. Sept. 

 Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



760. H. testaceum (Batsch) Fr. Cke. JQlus. no. 449, t. 408. 



Testaceum, brick red. 



P. 35 cm., brick pale, often ochraceous tan, or tan, somewhat opaque, 

 whitish at the margin, fleshy, campanulato-convex, then flattened, 

 regular, obtuse, smooth, obsoletely viscid, or dry. St. 3-7-5 cm. x 6- 

 8 mm., whitish, becoming somewhat tawny at the somewhat thickened, 

 fibrillose base, somewhat fragile, apex white mealy. Cortina thin, 

 fugacious. Gills pallid, then clay colour, subferruginous, attenuato-free, 

 lanceolate, very thin, at first ascending, very crowded. Flesh whitish, 

 then brownish, thin at the margin. Spores pale ferruginous, pip- 

 shaped, 8-9 x 4-5-5 /x, multi-guttulate, "rough. Cystidia on edge 

 filamentous-clavate, 40-60 x 6-10/u," Rick. Smell faint, of radish. 

 Woods, and heaths. Sept. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



761. H. firmum Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 112, fig. 3. Firmum, hard. 

 P. 5-7 cm., brick-red, fleshy, convex, then plane, at length depressed, 



smooth, viscid. St. 5-8 cm. x 4-12 mm., whitish, brown and fibrillose 

 at the base, firm, somewhat attenuated downwards, covered with white, 

 fioccose squamules. Cortina white, fugacious. Gills whitish, then clay 



