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zone on the st. Gills yellowish, then ferruginous, broadly adnate, con- 

 nected behind, 4 mm. broad, subdistant, edge whitish. Flesh yellowish, 

 ferruginous under the cuticle of the p., and in the st., thin at the margin. 

 Spores ferruginous, navicular, 8-9 x 5/Lt, 1 multi-guttulate, "sub- 

 verrucose. Cystidia on edge of gill ventricose-subulate, 36-45 x 8- 

 9/i" Rick. Taste mild. Gregarious, or subcaespitose. On Tilia 

 cordata, Pyrus Malus, and rotten wood. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



IV. P. scarcely pelliculose, flesh scissile, or torn above into scales, 

 not viscid, at first somewhat hoary. Veil fibrillosely adpressed 

 to the st., not furnished with an appendiculate cortina, almost 

 none, or forming an annular zone on the st. Gills light yellow, 

 or yellow, then tawny. Spores ochraceous, or tawny. Subcaespi- 

 tose, always on conifers, or on the ground amongst conifer 

 branches. 



1002. P. penetrans Fr. Fr. Icon. 1. 118, fig. 2. Penetrans, penetrating. 

 P. 5-8 cm., yellowish tawny, or golden, becoming pale and yellowish, 



fleshy, convex, then plane, obtuse, often irregular, dry, smooth, hoary 

 under a lens when young. St. 5 cm. x 6-10 mm., pallid, or yellowish 

 becoming pale, firm, somewhat equal, base white villous and often 

 rooting, sometimes fusiform when on the ground, silky, striate with 

 tawny fibrils. Cortina white, flocculose, submembranaceous, very 

 fugacious. Gills whitish, then pale yellow, spotted tawny when old, 

 adnate, emarginate, 4-6 mm. broad, crowded. Flesh whitish ("pale 

 sulphur yellow" Quel.), thick at the disc. Spores ochraceous, ellip- 

 tical, "8-9 x 4 5/x" Sacc. Taste bitter. Gregarious. Coniferous 

 stumps, and humus. Oct. Uncommon. 



1003. F. hybrida Fr. Hybrida, a mongrel. 

 P. 4-5 cm., tawny cinnamon, then tawny orange, fleshy, hemi- 

 spherical, with the margin involute, then expanded, obtuse, regular, 

 well formed, smooth, moist. St. 5-7-5 cm. x 5-10 mm., becoming 

 tawny, equal, or attenuated upwards, somewhat striate, apex often 

 somewhat mealy, base white villous. Cortina white, at length coloured 

 with the ferruginous spores, manifest, forming a ring at the apex of the 

 st. Gills light yellow, then tawny, adnate, somewhat crowded. Flesh 

 pallid, or yellow, moderately compact. Spores ferruginous, oblong- 

 elliptical, 9 x 4 fj,, "roughish. Cystidia on edge of gill filamentous, 

 subcapitate, 45-50 x 4-6 /A" Rick. Taste bitter. Growing in troops. 

 On fir stumps, and fallen branches. Aug. Dec. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1004. F. sapinea Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 118, fig. 3. 



Sapinea, pertaining to a fir tree. 



P. 2-5-10 cm., golden tawny, opaque at the disc, paler and shining 

 towards the margin, fleshy, hemispherical, then convexo-plane, very 



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