322 FLAMMULA 



obtuse, dry, covered with thin, squamulose, adpressed fioccules, often 

 rimosely scaly, with a few remnants of the yellowish cortina at the 

 margin. St. 4-6 cm. x 4-12 mm., becoming yellow pallid, turning 

 fuscous when bruised, irregularly shaped, often compressed, very 

 fleshy, fibrous, sulcate, or lacunose, naked, often rooting at the base. 

 Gills golden, at length tawny-cinnamon, adnate, plane, 8 mm. broad, 

 crowded. Flesh becoming yellow, thick, firm, but at length soft, not 

 scissile. Spores deep ochraceous, elliptical, 7-8 x 4-5 /*, "roughish. 

 Cystidia ventricose-fusiform, 36 x 9/u" Rick. Smell strong, taste 

 often bitter. Subcaespitose. Coniferous stumps, branches, and saw- 

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



var. terrestris Fr. Terrestris, pertaining to the earth. 



Differs from the type in the long, fusiform st. Growing on coniferous 

 humus. 



1005. F. liquiritiae (Pers.) Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 119, fig. 1. 



Liquiritia, liquorice. 



P. 2-5-7-5 cm., bay brown, or orange tawny, becoming pale, fleshy, 

 convex, then flattened, subumbonate, very smooth, moist; margin at 

 length flaccid, slightly striate. St. 4-5 cm. x 4-6 mm.* tawny, then 

 ferruginous, attenuated upwards, often unequal, curved, striate, some- 

 what naked, or obsoletely pruinose at the apex, base thickened and 

 villose. Cortina none. Gills golden, then tawny, obtusely adnate, 

 sometimes rounded, separating, 6 mm. broad, plane, crowded. Flesh 

 yellow, yellow tawny in the st., thin, scissile. Spores ochraceous, "sub- 

 elliptical, 8-9 x 5-6/Lt. Cystidia on edge of gill subcylindrical, slightly 

 ventricose-capitate, 30-40 x 6-9 /u," Rick. Taste slightly bitter, then 

 sweet like liquorice. Subcaespitose. Fir stumps, rarely pine. Oct. 

 Uncommon. 



1006. F. picrea Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 119, fig. 2. Triicpos, bitter. 

 P. 2-3 cm., rufous, or bay brown cinnamon, becoming pale and tawny, 



fleshy, campanulate, then convex, obtuse, regular, smooth, rarely 

 rimuloso-papillate, moist in rainy weather. St. 57-5 cm. x 2-4 mm., 

 umber, slightly attenuated upwards, tense and straight, white-pul- 

 verulent when young. Cortina none. Gills yellow, then ferruginous, 

 adnate, or decurrent and separating, ascending, narrow, 1-2 mm. 

 broad. Flesh concolorous, very thin, not easily scissile. Spores ferru- 

 ginous, "elliptical, 8-10 x 5-6/x" Schroet. Taste acid. Caespitose. 

 Pine stumps, and old deal boards. Sept. Dec. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



V. Furnished with a cortina. Cuticle of the p. slightly 

 silky, dry, or at the first viscid. 



1007. F. tricholoma (A. & S.) Fr. (= Paxillus tricholoma (A. & S.) 

 Quel.) Cke. Illus. no. 444, t. 404, fig. B, as Inocybe tricholoma 

 A. & S. Qpi%, hair; Xo/xa, fringe. 



