FLAMMULA 319 



12 mm., yellow, becoming ferruginous, attenuato-rooting, sometimes 

 subbulbous at the base, commonly curved, flexuose, fibrillose. Cor- 

 tina concolorous, either fibrillose, or woven into an arachnoid veil. 

 Gills dingy pallid, then ferruginous, somewhat adnate, broad, plane. 

 Flesh concolorous, thick at the disc, not very compact. Spores ferru- 

 ginous, elliptical, 9 x 4-5/x,, 1-2-guttulate. Cystidia flask-shaped, 

 40-50 x 7-15jt*. Taste bitter. Often fasciculate. On stumps, and 

 trunks. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. salicicola Fr. Salix, willow; colo, I inhabit. 



Differs from the type in the glabrous, rarely at the first fioccosely 

 squamulose, gibbous p., and the gills being at first yellowish pallid. On 

 willow. Sept. Rare. 



995. P. flavida (Schaeff.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 481, t. 444. 



Flavida, light yellowish. 



P. 2-5-12-5 cm., bright light yellow, fleshy, convex, then expanded, 

 obtuse, smooth, moist, generally regular. St. 4-9 cm. x 6-10 mm., 

 light yellow, becoming ferruginous towards the base, either attenuated, 

 or thickened downwards, subflexuose, fibrillose. Cortina white, mani- 

 fest, woven, adhering to the margin of the p., rarely almost forming 

 a ring. Gills whitish, then light yellow, at length tawny ferruginous, 

 adnate, not much crowded. Flesh white, becoming light yellow, thin 

 at the margin. Spores ferruginous, broadly elliptical, 5-8 x 4/u,, 

 1-2-guttulate. Cystidia "clavate, 36-40 x 8-9 p., filled with golden 

 yellow juice" Rick. Caespitose. On trunks, stumps, and buried 

 wood. Aug. Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



996. F. inaurata W. G. Sm. Cke. Illus. no. 482, t. 477. 



Inaurata, gilded. 



Entirely sulphur yellow. P. 2-3 cm., fleshy, convex, then expanded, 

 moist, smooth, furnished with a distinct veil. St. 2-5-3-5 cm. x 4 mm., 

 incurved, clothed with innate scales. Veil slight, fibrillose, fugitive. 

 Gills pale yellowish clay colour, adnate with a decurrent tooth, broad. 

 Flesh yellowish, ferruginous at base of the st. Taste mild. Single, 

 or caespitose. Willows. Nov. Rare. 



997. F. conissans Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 483, t. 445. KOVIS, dust. 

 P. 1-7-5 cm., light yellowish tan, fleshy, hemispherico-expanded, 



obtuse, or umbilicate, moist, smooth. St. 5-8 cm. x 4-10 mm., be- 

 coming light yellow white, equal, or attenuated downwards, often 

 compressed, irregular, twisted, silky, base white- villose. Cortina 

 white, silky-fibrillose, appendiculate. Gills whitish, then fuscous clay 

 colour, adnate with a decurrent tooth, linear, 3-4 mm. broad, very 

 crowded. Flesh white, or pale yellow, equal, 2 mm. thick. Spores 

 dark ferruginous, elliptical, 8 x 4 /A. Cystidia "on edge of gill 



