FLAMMULA 315 



981. F. nitens Cke. & Massee. Cke. Illus. no. 1168, t. 1154. 



Nitens, shining. 



P. 2-5 cm., dark purple brown, fleshy, hemispherical, convex, then 

 expanded, obtuse, shining, dry, somewhat silky. St. 4-7-5 x 1 cm., 

 flesh colour, or pale pinkish brown, equal, fibrillose, incurved. Gills 

 pallid, then umber, adnate, 4-6 mm. broad, crowded. Flesh white, 

 thin at the margin. Spores pale brown, almond-shaped, 10 x 5-7 /x. 

 Caespitose. On the ground. Aug. Sept. Rare. 



II. P. covered with a continuous, somewhat separable, smooth, viscid 

 pellicle ; cortina manifest fibrillose. Spores ferruginous, not tawny ; 

 fuscous ferruginous in Flammula carbonaria. Gregarious, growing 

 on the ground, rarely on wood. 



F. lenta (Pers.) Fr. = Hebeloma glutinosum (Lindgr.) Fr. 



982. F. lubrica (Pers.) Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 116, fig. 1. Lubrica, slimy. 

 P. 5-10 cm., brick-red tawny, or bright cinnamon, sometimes pallid 



with the disc tawny, fleshy, convex, then flattened, obtuse, or slightly 

 umbonate, sometimes depressed and repand, viscid, smooth, some- 

 times spotted with glued down scales ; margin sometimes striate. St. 

 5-10 cm. x 6-10 mm., whitish, at length becoming fuscous, equal, or 

 slightly attenuated upwards, dry, laxly fibrillose, base pubescent. 

 Gills pallid, then clay colour, adnate, subdecurrent, 6 mm. broad, 

 crowded. Flesh white, thick at the disc, tough. Spores pale rusty 

 brown, "cylindrical-elliptical, nearly reniform, 5-6 x 3-3-5/u,, smooth. 

 Cystidia lanceolate-fusiform, 50-65 x 12-18/*, contents at first 

 yellowish" Rick. Smell scarcely strong. On and near trunks, and 

 in pastures. Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 



983. F. lupina Fr. Lupina, pertaining to a wolf. 

 P. 7-10 cm., brown, tan fuscous, or tawny, fleshy, convex, obtuse, 



then piano-depressed, smooth, covered with a viscid, easily separable 

 pellicle. St. 2-5 cm. x 12 mm., whitish at the apex, elsewhere ferru- 

 ginous with dense adpressed fibrils, sometimes light yellowish, firm, 

 thickened either upwards or downwards. Gills clay colour, or light 

 yellowish, adnato-decurrent, broad, moderately crowded. Flesh 

 white, becoming ferruginous in the St., soft. Spores "nearly elliptical- 

 oval, 9-10 x 5-6//,, smooth, almost colourless under the microscope. 

 Cystidia on edge of the gill ventricose-fusiform, with a long pointed 

 clavate apex, 50-60 x 9-12 fj," Rick. Smell very strong or mild. 

 Taste very bitter. Pastures. Aug. Oct. Uncommon. 



984. F. mixta Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 474, t. 476. Mixta, mixed. 

 P. 2-5-5 cm., dingy tan, fleshy, convexo-plane, obtuse, disc unequal, 



darker, rugulose, smooth; margin sloping, paler. St. 2-5-7-5 cm. x 6- 



