HYPHOLOMA 265 



P. 5-10 cm., fiery tawny, fleshy, hemispherical, obtuse, then ex- 

 panded, densely clothed with somewhat adpressed, tawny fibrils, which 

 are here and there fasciculate in the form of scales. St. 5-7-5 cm. x 4- 

 15 mm., pallid, becoming tawny, equal, fibrillose, commonly squarrose 

 with small, fiery tawny scales. Cortina tawny. Gills pallid, then be- 

 coming brown, adnate, at length free, 10-12 mm. broad, somewhat 

 crowded, edge white, flocculose. Flesh tawny, deeper coloured in the st., 

 thin at the margin. Spores fuscous purple, pip-shaped, 10-11 x 6-5- 

 7fji. Cystidia clavate, 12-13^ in diam. at apex, 44-70 x 7-9/u,, con- 

 tents often yellowish. Caespitose. Woods, and about roots of trees. 

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



var. egregium Massee. Egregium, distinguished. 



Differs from the type in the st. below the ring being covered with 

 spreading, squarrose, whitish scales, and in the purple brown, broadly 

 elliptical, or subglobose, apiculate spores, 6 x 4-5/x. Fasciculate, near 

 to stumps. Fir woods. Oct. Rare. 



796. H. velutinum (Pers.) Fr. (= Stropharia lacrimabunda (Bull.) 

 Quel.) Cke. Illus. no. 582, t. 563. Velutinum, velvety. 



P. 5-15 cm.j lurid, becoming tawny, then clay colour isabelline, 

 hygrophanous, fleshy, campanulate, then expanded, at length ob- 

 tusely umbonate, adpressedly, tomentosely fibrillose, becoming smooth ; 

 margin appendiculate with the white veil. St. 5-12-5 cm. x 4-15 mm., 

 dingy clay colour, equal, fragile, fibrillosely silky, apex tomentose 

 above the veil. Cortina white, then black, woolly. Gill inclining to 

 fuscous, then date brown fuscous, dotted black, adnexed, easily sepa- 

 rating, 8-10 mm. broad, subdistant, edge white,fioccose, distilling watery, 

 hyaline drops. Flesh pallid, very thin, fragile. Spores brownish 

 purple, elliptical, 8-10 x 6-7 /x, verrucose, with an apical germ pore. 

 Cystidia capitate-clavate, 50-60 x 12-15/x. Taste mild. Poisonous. 

 Solitary, or in groups of two or three. Woods, pastures, roadsides, 

 rarely on stumps. May Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



var. leiocephalum B. & Br. \eto<?, smooth; K(j>a\,ij, head. 



Differs from the type in its smaller size, in the very rugose disc, and 

 pallid p., smooth except at the fibrillose margin, and the pallid st., 

 farinose at the apex. Densely caespitose. Old stumps, and in woods. 

 Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



797. H. melantinum Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 134, fig. 2. 



/xeXa?, black; t?, a fibre. 



P. 2-6 cm., umber, then pale, fleshy, campanulato-convex, then 

 plane, obtuse, covered with innate, adpressed, hairy, black squamules. 

 St. 4-6 cm. x 4-12 mm., pallid, equal, or slightly attenuated up- 

 wards, fibrillosely hispid with whitish, then fuscous fibrils. Cortina 



