HYPHOLOMA 261 



P. 6-8 cm., orange rufous, fleshy, convex, viscid; margin whitish, 

 silky. St. 7-10 cm. x 6-8 mm., concolorous, bulbous, shining, fibril- 

 loso-striate. Gills grey, then olivaceous, adnate, crowded. Spores pale 

 purplish brown. Smell pleasant, of meal. Solitary, " caespitose from 

 a common tuber" Secretan. Old pastures, and under firs. Aug. 

 Nov. Eare. 



783. H. sublateritium (Schaeff.) Fr. Holland, Champ, t. 73, no. 162. 



Sub, somewhat; lateritium, brick colour. 



P. 3-10 cm., tawny-brick-red, paler round the margin, fleshy, con- 

 vexo-plane, obtuse, discoid, dry, covered with a superficial, somewhat 

 silky, whitish cloudiness (arising from the veil), becoming smooth', 

 margin often append iculate with the veil. St. 5-10 cm. x -15 mm., 

 yellow, ferruginous downwards, firm, attenuated downwards, rarely 

 equal, scaly-fibrillose, fibrils pallid. Cortina white, at length becoming 

 black, superior. Gills dingy yellowish, and darker at the base, then 

 fuliginous, at length inclining to olivaceous, adnate, sinuate, somewhat 

 crowded. Flesh yellowish, ferruginous at the base of the st., compact. 

 Spores fuscous purple, elliptical, 6-7 x 3-4/z,, 1-2-guttulate. Cystidia 

 cylindric-clavate, or flask-shaped, apex obtuse, 6-7/z in diam., 

 35-50 x 10-15/x, on the edge of the gill, fusiform-capitate, 30-36 x 

 7-9 fji, contents yellow. Taste bitter. Poisonous. Subcaespitose. 

 Woods, hedgerows, and old posts. Jan. Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



var. Schaefferi B. & Br. Schaeff. Icon. t. 49, figs. 4-5. 



J. C. Schaefier. 



Differs from the type in its smaller size, in the light yellowish, conical, 

 at length depressed, wrinkled p., and the narrow decurrent gills. Stumps. 

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



var. pomposum Fr. Pomposum, stately. 



Differs from the type in the thicker, almost entirely tawny p., the 

 thick stem up to 2-5 cm. broad, becoming pale above, the membranaceous 

 ring, and the gills at length becoming a beautiful olive. Stumps. July 

 Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. squamosum Cke. Cke. Illus. no. 573, t. 558. Squamosum, scaly. 

 Differs from the type in the p. being spotted with scales, especially 

 towards the margin. Trunks. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



784. H. capnoides Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 133, fig. 1. KaTrvtoSrjs, smoky. 

 P. 2-5-8 cm., ochraceous-yellowish, fleshy, convex, then flattened, 



obtuse, dry, smooth, often wrinkled, margin appendiculate with the 

 veil. St. 5-7 cm. x 4-8 mm., pallid, becoming ferruginous under the 

 surface covering when old, apex whitish, equal, often curved and flexu- 

 ose, becoming silky-even, here and there striate. Cortina white, then 



