HYPHOLOMA 263 



Flesh yellow, thin. Spores purple, elliptical, 6-7 x 4-5/n, 1-guttulate. 

 Cystidia clavate, 28-35 x 7-10/u,, contents yellowish. Smell and 

 taste very bitter. On stumps, and on the ground. Woods, pastures, 

 and hedgerows. Jan Dec. Common, (v.v.) . 



788. H. instratum Britz. Cke. Illus. no. 1181, t. 1157. 



Instratum, bare. 



P. 2-3-5 cm., dark brown, fleshy, hemispherical, convex, broadly 

 umbonate, radiately rugose, margin appendiculate with the white veil. 

 St. 5-7-5 cm. x 4 mm., white above, brownish at the base, equal, apex 

 smooth, fibrillose, or squamulose below. Gills brown, then purple brown, 

 adnate, subventricose, 6 mm. broad. Flesh brownish, thin. Spores 

 purple brown, elliptical, 8 x 4/i. Caespitose. On stumps. Sept. 

 Oct. Eare. 



789. H. aellopum Fr. aeXXo-Trow, storm-footed. 

 P. 2-5 cm., rufescent, fleshy, convex, then plane, obtuse, smooth. 



St. 5-6 cm. x 48 mm., variegated with minute, red squamules, fusi- 

 form, rooting, with a separable tube inside. Gills yellowish, then 

 fuscous-olivaceous, adnate. Subcaespitose. Stumps, especially fir, and 

 larch. Sept. Rare. 



790. H. dispersum Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 133, fig. 3. Dispersum, scattered. 

 P. 2-4 cm., tawny honey colour, not hygrophanous, fleshy, campanu- 



late, then convex, at length expanded, smooth, superficially white 

 silky with the veil round the margin. St. 5-7 cm. x 4-6 mm., somewhat 

 ferruginous, becoming fuscous at the base, apex pale, equal, tense and 

 straight, tough, fibrillosely silky, besprinkled with white, zone-like 

 markings from the remains of the veil. Gills pallid straw colour, at 

 length clouded, obsoletely green, adnate, ventricose, 4-8 mm. broad, 

 thin, crowded, edge often white Flesh yellowish, ferruginous under the 

 cuticle of the p. and in the st., thin. Spores purple, pip-shaped, 8- 

 9 x 4-5 /A. Cystidia "subclavate, 30-45 x 7-10/i, often drawn out 

 into a point, filled with a yellow juice" Rick. Solitary, rarely caespi- 

 tose. Amongst coniferous needles and twigs, rarely on stumps, and 

 sawdust. April Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



791. H. irroratum Karst. Irroratum, bedewed. 

 P. 4 cm., tawny honey colour, convex, then plane, gibbous, even; 



margin silky, pruinose. St. 13 cm. x 5 mm., pallid, equal, rooting, 

 tough, fibrillosely silky, wavy below, and with dense rusty down. Gills 

 straw colour, then darker, and tinged green, adnate, crowded ; margin 

 dentate. Spores hyaline under the microscope, elliptical, 6-9 x 4-5/>i. 

 Smell and taste very sour. Rare. 



