CLITOPILUS. FLAMMULA 313 



973, C. straminipes Massee. Cke. Ulus. no. 1159, t. 960. 



Stramen, straw; pes, foot. 



P. 3-5 cm., whitish, submembranaceous, fragile, at length expanded 

 and depressed in the centre, shining. St. 5 cm. x 3 mm., straw colour 

 below, sprinkled with white meal above, equal, often compressed. 

 Gills whitish then rosy, shortly decurrent, scarcely crowded. Flesh 

 white. Spores pink, angular, globose, 11 12/z % Amongst grass. Sept. 

 Uncommon. 



Spores ochraceous, or ferruginous. 



Flammula Fr. 

 (Gyninophilus (Karst.) Murr. sec. Maire.) 



(Flammula, a little flame.) 



Pileus fleshy, regular, viscid, or dry. Stem central, fleshy, or fibrous. 

 Gills decurrent, or adnate with a decurrent tooth. Spores ochraceous, 

 ferruginous, or fuscous, elliptical, oblong elliptical, globose, or navicu- 

 lar; smooth, punctate, or verrucose; continuous, or with a germ-pore. 

 Cystidia present, rarely none. Growing on the ground, or on wood; 

 solitary, gregarious, fasciculate, or caespitose. 



I. Veil none; p. dry, most frequently squamulose. Spores 

 ferruginous, in Flammula decipiens fuscous ferruginous. 



974. P. gymnopodia (Bull.) Fr. (= Armillaria mellea (Vahl.) Fr. var. 



tabescens (Scop.) Rea sec. Quel.) yvpvos, naked; TTOVS, foot. 



Entirely dark ferruginous. P. 5-7-5 cm., fleshy, campanulato-con- 



vex, squamulose. St. 5-6 x 1 cm., becoming smooth, ascending 



equal. Gills deeply decurrent, arcuate, crowded. Caespitose. Pine 



sawdust, and on the ground. Sept. Oct. Rare. 



975. F. Aldridgei Massee. (= Flammula veluticeps Cke. & Massee.) 



Miss Emily Aldridge. 



P. 2-5 cm., brick red with a tinge of orange, or tawny orange, fleshy, 

 convex, then infundibuliform, with a subinvolute margin, minutely 

 velvety. St. 7-10 cm. x 6-8 mm., concolorous, equal, flexuose, smooth, 

 base with a white floccose mycelium. Gills golden yellow, then ferru- 

 ginous-orange, deeply decurrent, lanceolate, 3 mm. broad, rather 

 crowded. Spores ferruginous orange, elliptical, slightly apiculate at 

 the base, 16 x 5/i. Gregarious. Amongst moss on the ground in 

 woods. Sept. Rare. 



976. F. vinosa (Bull.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 466, t. 437. 



Vinosa, full of wine. 



P. 2-4 cm., ferruginous fawn, fleshy, expanded, at length depressed, 

 dry, delicately fiocculose. St. 2-3 cm. x 6mm., pale, firm, somewhat 

 thickened at the base, delicately fiocculose. Gills ferruginous, decurrent, 



