314 FLAMMULA 



simple, narrow, crowded. Spores "pale brown, 5 /z long, ovate" 



Sacc. On the ground. Rare. 



F. paradoxa Kalchbr. = Paxillus paradoxus (Kalchbr.) Quel. 



F, Tammii Fr. = Paxillus paradoxus (Kalchbr.) Quel. 



977. F. clitopila Cke. & Sin. Cke. lUus. no. 468, t. 500. 



K\I,TO<;, a slope; TrtXo?, cap. 



P. 2-55 cm., purplish brown, or madder brown, fleshy, convex, then 

 expanded, disc depressed and umbilicate, smooth, dry. St. 5-7-5 x 1- 

 1*5 cm., fuliginous, ventricose, erect, with a few scattered fibrils to- 

 wards the base. Gills pallid, or yellowish, slightly adnexed, ventricose, 

 scarcely crowded. Flesh white, brown in the st., fairly thick. Spores 

 brown, elliptical, 10 x 4jLi. Amongst firs. Nov. Rare. 



978. P. purpurata Cke. & Massee. Cke. lUus. no. 1167, t. 964. 



Purpurata, clad in purple. 



P 2-5-5 cm., purple, or purple brown, fleshy, convex, then expanded, 

 obtusely umbonate, clad with minute, floccose, concolorous scales, dry. 

 St. 2-55 cm. x 46 mm., pallid above, purple below, equal, curved, 

 ascending, apex smooth, granular dowmvards. Ring imperfect, fibril- 

 lose. Gills lemon yellow, at length bright ferruginous, adnate, somewhat 

 rounded behind, subdistant, narrow. Flesh purplish, yellow at the 

 apex of the st., thick at the disc. Spores ferruginous, elliptical, 8 x 5/u.. 

 Taste very bitter. Tree-fern stems. May. Rare. 



979. F. floccifera B. & Br. Cke Illus. no. 467, t. 438, upper figs. 



Floccus, a flock of wool ; fero, I bear. 



P. 4r-5 cm., tawny, fleshy, convex, then expanded, sprinkled with 

 snow-white fibrils, becoming somewhat zoned in drying. St. 3-4 cm. 

 x 6 mm., white, attenuated downwards, silky scaly, apex furfura- 

 ceous. Gills ferruginous, edge white, adnate, rounded behind, scarcely 

 ventricose, moderately broad, wrinkled transversely. Flesh white, 

 tawny at the edge, and beneath the cuticle of the p., umber in the st., 

 fleshy at the disc. Spores ferruginous. Caespitose. On lime stumps. 

 Oct. Rare. 



980. F. decipiens W. G. Sm. Cke. Illus. no. 467, t. 438, lower figs. 



Decipiens, deceiving. 



P. 2-5-3 cm., rich brown, becoming pale, and almost white at the disc, 

 fleshy, convex, very obtuse, or umbonate, at length sometimes de- 

 pressed round the umbo, dry, minutely squamulose. St. 3-6 cm. x 4- 

 6 mm., rich tawny, attenuated downwards, often twisted, striate. Gills 

 orange brown, decurrent, 4 mm. broad, crowded. Flesh golden yellow, 

 bright brown at base of st., thick at the disc. Spores orange brown, 

 elliptical, apiculate at the base, 6-7 x 4/i. Inclined to be fasciculate. 

 Charcoal heaps, and burnt earth. June Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



