316 FLAMMULA 



8 mm., whitish, equal, either short, ascending, curved, or elongated, 

 flexuose, with lax, fuscous fibrils, clothed below with reflexed, rufous 

 fuscous scales, base somewhat thickened. Cortina manifest, fibrillose. 

 Gills white, then clay colour, subdecurrent, 6-8 mm. broad, somewhat 

 crowded, unequal at the edge. Flesh watery, rather firm. Spores 

 yellow brown, "almost almond-shaped, 12-15 x 6-7 /z, smooth. 

 Cystidia flask-shaped-lanceolate, 50-60 x 13-15/u" Rick. Sub- 

 caespitose. Pine and mixed woods. Aug. Nov. Rare. 



985. F. juncina W. G. Sm. Cke. lUus. no. 472, t. 475. 



Juncina, pertaining to a rush. 



P. 3-4 cm., sulphury yellow, disc rich brown, fleshy, hemispherical, 

 convex. St. 8-10 cm. x 4-6 mm., sulphur yellow, base tawny, attenu- 

 ated downwards, clothed with a few fibres. Gills red brown, decur- 

 rent, 46 mm. broad, very thin. Flesh sulphur whitish, brownish to- 

 wards the base of the st., thin at the margin. Taste nauseous and 

 disagreeable, somewhat bitter. Dead bulrushes in an old clay pit. 

 Nov. Rare. 



986. F. gummosa (Lasch) Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 116, fig. 2. 



Gummosa, sticky. 



P. 3-6 cm., pallid light yellow, or becoming green, at length ferru- 

 ginous with the spores, paler at the circumference, fleshy, regular, cam- 

 panulate, then soon flattened, obtuse, or depressed, covered with a 

 separable, viscid pellicle, sprinkled with superficial floccose scales, then 

 smooth. St. 4-7-5 cm. x 4-6 mm., ferruginous, rubiginous at the base, 

 paler upwards, equal, tense, straight, rigid, silky fibrillose. Gills 

 pale yellowish white, then cinnamon, adnate, narrow, crowded. Flesh 

 becoming yellow, thin. Spores yellow, elliptical, 5-7 x 3-4/z, smooth. 

 Cystidia on the surface of the gill sparse, subulate-fusiform, 30- 

 40 x 7-8//,, on edge of the gill cylindrical, capitate, flexuose, apex 

 6-7 jit in diam., 40-45 x 4-5 /n. On and about old stumps, and in 

 grassy places. Oct. Dec. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



987. F. decussata Fr. (=Flammula carbonaria Fr. var. decussata Fr. 

 sec. Quel.) Kalchbr. Icon. t. 15, fig. 1. 



Decussata, divided crosswise. 



P. 3-4 cm., crust colour, fleshy, convex, then plane, viscid, virgate 

 with innate, radiating, darker fibrils; disc gibbous, darker. St. 3- 

 5 cm. x 4 mm., pallid above, elsewhere becoming fulvous, equal, ad- 

 pressedly fibrillose. Cortina manifest. Gills yellowish, then clay colour, 

 adnate, narrow, crowded. Flesh white, becoming yellowish under the 

 separable pellicle. Spores "7-8 x 3/x" Sacc. Beech woods. Rare. 



988. F. spumosa Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 116, fig. 3. Spumosa, full of foam. 

 P. 3-5 cm., pallid light yellow, disc often darker, fleshy, convex, then 



plane, subumbonate, very viscid, pellicle separable, naked. St. 5- 



