318 FLAMMULA 



prominent point, 30-36 x 10-15/i, filled with olive yellow juice" 

 Rick. Taste mild. Gregarious. On the ground, and on stumps. Sept. 

 Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. superba Massee. Cke. Illus. no. 478, t. 434. Superba, splendid. 

 Differs from the type in the bright deep orange p. with darker disc, 

 the pale orange st., the bright yellow gills, and the reddish tinge of the 

 flesh. On the ground. Nov. Rare. 



992. P. astragalina Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 117, fig. 2. 



aa-Tpaya\ivos, a goldfinch. 



P. 3-8 cm., blood saffron, or golden flesh colour, darker at the disc, 

 pale at the circumference, fleshy, convex, or lens-shaped, then flattened, 

 obtuse, somewhat moist in rainy weather, smooth, at first superficially- 

 silky round the margin with the very thin, adpressed, whitish veil. St. 

 5-10 cm. x 4-6 mm., concolorous, or paler, equal, or attenuated down- 

 wards, flexuose, floccosely fibrillose. Cortina white, manifest, appen- 

 diculate. Gills pallid light yellow, concolorous with the p. at the base, 

 adnate, broad, crowded, edge obtuse, flocculose when young. Flesh 

 concolorous, becoming black when wounded, or bruised, firm. Spores 

 pale ferruginous, broadly elliptical, 6 x 3-4/n, 1-guttulate. Cystidia 

 "clavate-lanceolate, 50-75 x 12-15/u,, filled with olive brown juice" 

 Rick. Taste bitter. Subcaespitose. Pine and fir stumps, and dead 

 branches. Aug. Oct. Uncommon. 



993. F. rubicundula Rea. Grevillea, xxn (1894), t. 185, fig. 2. 



Rubicundula, somewhat ruddy. 



P. 4-6 cm., yellow, then tinged with red, at length tawny orange, 

 fleshy, convex, then plane, often splitting at the margin, viscid at 

 first and innately fibrillose, soon becoming smooth ; margin at first 

 veiled. St. 5-6 x 1-5-2-5 cm., whitish, then tinged with red and be- 

 coming red at the base, equal, or attenuated downwards, fibrillose below 

 the veil, apex white mealy. Veil white, then yellowish and at length 

 reddening. Gills light ochre, then ferruginous, adnate with a sinus, or 

 adnato-decurrent, often forming a ring-like zone at the apex of the 

 st., often separating, 3-4 mm. broad, crowded; edge unequal, tinged 

 red with age or when bruised. Flesh bright yellow, then lighter. Spores 

 ferruginous, elliptical, 9-10 x 4-5/i, 1-2-guttulate. Taste acrid. The 

 whole plant becoming reddish with age, or when touched. Woods, 

 under scrub oak. July Sept. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



994. F. alnicola Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 480, t. 443. 



Alnus, alder; colo, I inhabit. 



P. 3-8 cm., yellow, at length becoming ferruginous, and sometimes 

 green, fleshy, convex, then flattened, obtuse, slimy when moist, at 

 first superficially fibrillose towards the margin. St. 4-9 cm. x 6- 



