320 FLAMMULA 



filamentous-clavate, subcapitate, or undulating, 3645 x 5-7 /u." Rick. 

 Smell acid. Densely caespitose. Woods, dead stumps, and on willows. 

 Sept. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



998. F. inopus Fr. (= Flammula fusus (Batsch) Fr. sec. Quel.) Fr. 



Icon. t. 118, fig. 1. 45, a fibre; TTOV<}, foot. 



P. 3-10 cm., honey tan, or reddish tan, paler round the margin, 

 fleshy, convex, then expanded, obtuse, slippery (almost viscid) when 

 moist, and smooth when dry. St. 7-25 cm. x 2-10 mm., pallid, 

 brick colour downwards, equal, or slightly enlarged before continuing 

 into the long, tapering, rooting base, tough, flexuose, adpressedly fibril- 

 lose. Cortina fugacious. Gills pale yellowish white, sometimes green, then 

 becoming purplish, adnate, emarginate, 46 mm. broad, thin, crowded. 

 Flesh concolorous, becoming whitish, ferruginous in the st., thin at the 

 margin. Spores purple, broadly elliptical, 8 x 5/z, 1-guttulate. Soli- 

 tary, or caespitose. Pine trunks, and stumps. May Dec. Not 

 uncommon, (v.v.) 



999. P. apicrea Fr. (=Flammula alnicola Fr. var. salicicola Fr. sec. 



Quel.) Cke. Ulus. no. 485, t. 436. a-jrucpos, not bitter. 



P. 3-7-5 cm., dingy orange, or deep tawny, disc darker, fleshy, con- 

 vex, then expanded and almost plane, gibbous, or obtusely umbonate, 

 smooth, moist; margin often splitting. St. 5-10 cm. x 4-10 mm., 

 pallid, ferruginous downwards, equal, or attenuated downwards, 

 covered with ferruginous fibrils, somewhat striate. Gills ferruginous, 

 shining, adnate, or sinuate, 45 mm. broad, thin, crowded, edge often 

 uneven. Flesh yellow, tawny under the cuticle of the p., and ferruginous 

 in the base of the st., thin at the margin. Spores ferruginous, elliptical, 

 8 x 5/i, 2-3-guttulate. Taste mild. Subcaespitose. Stumps, base of 

 trees, and deal boards. Sept. Dec. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1000. F. carnosa Massee. Carnosa, fleshy. 

 P. 2-3-5 cm., dull tawny orange, very fleshy, soon expanded, broadly 



gibbous, edge remaining more or less incurved for some time, even, 

 smooth. St. 5-7-5 cm., concolorous, subequal, fibrous. Gills rust 

 coloured, powdered with the spores, slightly decurrent, thin, some- 

 what crowded. Flesh yellowish, compact, 1 cm. or more thick at the 

 disc, thin at the extreme edge. Spores brown, elliptical, 7 x 5/x. 

 Tufted in small clusters. On wood. Sept. Rare. 



1001. F. azyma Fr. a 17105, unleavened. 

 P. 2-3 cm., ferruginous, tan colour when dry, fleshy, convex, then 



plane, obtuse, smooth when in full vigour, becoming silky and rimosely 

 squamulose when dry. St. 2-5-4 cm. x 4-6 mm., concolorous, or paler, 

 firm, somewhat equal, often curved, or flexuose, slightly fibrillose, 

 base white woolly. Cortina fugacious, sometimes forming a ring-like 



