290 CLITOCYBE. LACCARIA 



pleasant, of aniseed, at length, foetid. Meadows, damp places, and 

 peat bogs. June Dec. Eare. 



C. Sadleri B. & Br. = Hypholoma fasciculate (Huds.) Fr. 



Spores white; hymenium pulverulent. 



Laccaria B. & Br. 

 (Lac, a resinous excretion left by the lac insect.) 



Pileus fleshy, regular, or irregular. Stem central, externally fibrous. 

 Gills adnate with a decurrent tooth, pulverulent. Spores white, glo- 

 bose, or elliptical, echinulate, or verrucose. Growing on the ground, 

 and on wood. 



886. L. laccata (Scop.) B. & Br. (= Clitocybe laccata (Scop.) Fr.; 



CollyUa laccata (Scop.) Quel.) Cke. lUus. no. 179, t. 139, figs. 

 coloured red, as Clitocybe laccata Scop. 



Lac, the exudation from the lac insect. 



P. 3-5 cm., rufous flesh colour when moist, ochraceous when dry, 

 fleshy, convex, then rather plane, more or less umbilicato-depressed, 

 dry, very hygrophanous, becoming pale in drying, the cuticle often 

 breaking up into mealy squamules, or somewhat silky, sometimes un- 

 dulato-crisped and irregularly shaped. St. 7-10 cm. x 6-10 mm., 

 concolorous, tough, fibrous, equal, often flexuose, or twisted, fibrillose, 

 base white villous. Gills flesh colour, then white mealy, adnate with a 

 decurrent tooth, very broad, distant, plane, thick. Flesh concolorous, 

 somewhat thin, firm in the st. Spores white, globose, 8-9 p, echinulate. 

 Cystidia "on edge of gill clavate-vermiform, 50-60 x 9-12/t" Rick. 

 Taste mild. Edible. Heaths, and woods. June Dec. Very common. 

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var. proxima (Boud.) Maire. Boud. Icon. t. 60, as Laccaria proxima 



Boud. Proxima, very near. 



Differs from the type in its brighter colour, and the larger elliptical 



spores, 10-15 x 6-7/x,, minutely echinulate 1 . Heaths, and woods. 



Sept. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. amethystina (Vaill.) B. & Br. Amethystina, amethyst colour. 

 Differs from the type in the whole of the plant, including the flesh t 

 being of a beautiful deep violet colour, becoming paler when dry. Woods, 

 and pastures. June Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



887. L. tortilis (Bolt.) Boud. Boud. Icon. t. 59. Tortilis, twisted. 

 P. 1-2-5 cm., pale rose, or slightly yellowish, striate to the deeper 



coloured disc, membranaceous, thin, convex, then plane and depressed ; 



1 Both elliptical and globose spores have been found on the same plant. 



