FLAMMULA 317 



10 cm. x 4 mm., light yellow, or concolorous, sometimes olivaceous 

 fuscous, attenuated downwards, more or less fibrillose, remarkably 

 cortinate. Gills light yellow, then ferruginous, adnate, crowded. Flesh 

 light yellow, becoming green, watery, thin. Spores pale ferruginous, 

 bluntly elliptical, 8-9 x 4-5 //,, 2-guttulate. Cystidia "flask-shaped, 

 50-60 x 10-15/z, long-necked" Eick. Gregarious, or subcaespitose. 

 Woods, especially fir, sawdust, pastures, and rarely on trunks. Sept. 

 Dec. Rare, (v.v.) 



989. F. carbonaria Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 475, t. 442 



Carbonaria, pertaining to charcoal. 



P. 3-9 cm., tawny, fleshy, convex, then soon plane, and often de- 

 pressed at the disc, smooth, viscid; margin incurved, often floccosely 

 fimbriate. St. 2-5-11 cm. x 2-14 mm., pallid, often blacJcish at the 

 base, rigid, equal, or slightly thickened upwards, fibrillosely-squamu- 

 lose, the mycelium at the base often forming a pseudo-bulb with the 

 soil. Cortina fibrillose, fugacious. Gills clay, then fuscous clay colour, 

 adnate, rather broad, crowded. Flesh yellowish, firm, thin at the 

 margin. Spores fuscous ferruginous, subelliptical, 6-7 x 4/z,, 1- 

 guttulate. Cystidia flask shaped, apex obtuse, 4-6 /z in diam., 

 35-50 x 10-16/z. Densely gregarious. Charcoal heaps, and burnt 

 earth. Aug. Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



III. Cuticle of the p. continuous, not distinct, nor separable, smooth 

 (here and there with a superficial covering), moist, or a little 

 viscid in wet weather. Cortina manifest, appendiculate. Spores 

 not tawny, nor ochraceous. Caespitose, growing on wood. 



990. F. filia Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 117, fig. 1. Filia, a daughter. 

 P. 5-7 cm., pale yellow, disc rufescent, fleshy, convex, soon plane, 



moist, smooth. St. 7-515 cm. x 12 mm., pallid, base reddish, equal, 

 or attenuated at the base, smooth. Veil terminated by an incomplete 

 ring, fugacious. Gills white, then pallid, adnate, somewhat crowded. 

 Flesh whitish, reddish in the St., thin. Spores "tawny orange, elliptic- 

 fusiform, 10 x 5fi " Massee. Woods, and on logs. Oct. Rare. 



991. F. fusus (Batsch) Fr. Fusus, a spindle. 

 P. 5-9 cm., somewhat brick colour, fleshy, convex, then plane, obtuse, 



smooth, slightly viscid. St. 4-6 x 1-1-5 cm., pallid, firm, attenuated 

 downwards in a fusiform manner, rooting, fibrillosely striate. Cortina 

 manifest, appendiculate. Gills pallid, or light yellow, then ferruginous, 

 sometimes becoming green grey, subdecurrent, not very crowded. Flesh 

 pallid, becoming yellowish, compact, firm. Spores dingy ferruginous, 

 subelliptical, 8-9 x 4-5 /LI. Cystidia "flask-shaped or clavate with a 



