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becoming fuscous purple. Gills whitish, or bluish-grey, then 

 purple, adnate, easily separating, rather broad, somewhat crowded. 

 Flesh whitish, often somewhat ferruginous towards the base of the st. 

 Spores pale fuscous, elliptical, 7-8 x 3-4//,, 1-guttulate. Cystidia 

 "clavate, with a prominent point, 36-50 x 10-15/u," Eick. Smell 

 and taste mild. Caespitose, or fasciculate. Coniferous stumps. 

 April Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



785. H. epixanthum Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 133, fig. 2. eVtfai/#oi>, tawny. 

 P. 5-7-5 cm., light yellow, or becoming pale, disc generally darker, 



fleshy, convexo-plane, obtuse, or gibbous, sometimes depressed at 

 the disc, slightly silky, then becoming smooth; margin appendiculate 

 with the veil. St. 7-14 cm. x 6-10 mm., yellow, pale ferruginous, or 

 becoming fuscous below, equal, or attenuated from the thickened base, 

 floccoso-fibrillose, apex pruinose. Cortina white, silky. Gills light 

 yellowish white, or citron yellow, then cinereous, adnate, crowded. 

 Flesh yellow, often ferruginous at the base of the st., thin at the mar- 

 gin. Spores cinereous purple, broadly elliptical, 6 7 x 4/x, 1-guttulate. 

 Cystidia "clavate, with a prominent point, 36-40 x 9-12 ju," Rick. 

 Smell strong. Caespitose. Stumps in frondose, and coniferous woods, 

 hedgerows, and parks. June Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



786. H. elaeodes Fr. (= Flammuloides fascicularis Huds. sec. Quel.) 



eXaia, the olive-tree; etSo<?, like. 



P. 4-8 cm., brick-red, or tan tinged reddish at the disc, fleshy, convex, 

 then plane, or slightly depressed, obtuse, or subumbonate, dry, smooth, 

 opaque; margin for a long time incurved, undulate, folded. St. 5- 

 9 cm. x 510 mm., dirty yellow, more or less ferruginous, equal, or 

 attenuated at the base, incurved, or flexuose, fibrillose. Cortina white, 

 apical. Gills green, or greenish yellow, then olivaceous, and finally 

 brownish purple, adnate, crowded, thin. Flesh yellow, ferruginous in 

 the st., thin at the margin. Spores brownish purple, broadly elliptical, 

 6-8 x 4-5 /A, 1-2-guttulate. Cystidia "nearly flask-shaped, 30 x 8- 

 lOju., obtuse, filled with yellow juice" Rick. Smell and taste bitter. 

 Caespitose. On stumps, and on the ground. Woods, and pastures. 

 Aug. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



787. H. fasciculare (Huds.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 576, t. 561. 



Fasciculare, in little bundles. 



P. 2-5 cm., light yellow, disc often darker, fleshy, convex, then 

 flattened, obtuse, or subumbonate, smooth, dry; margin often ap- 

 pendiculate with the veil. St. 5-22 cm. x 4-10 mm., concolorous, 

 equal, base attenuated, or thickened, incurved, or flexuose, fibrillose. 

 Cortina yellowish-white, fibrillose, torn. Gills sulphur yellow, then 

 green, adnate, linear, 3-4 mm. broad, very crowded, subdeliquescent 



