324 FLAMMULA. GOMPHIDIUS 



plane, obtusely umbonate, dry, silky, squamulose. St. 5-6 cm. x 4- 

 10 mm., yellowish, becoming ferruginous towards the base, attenuated 

 upwards, often curved, or flexuose, squamulose and white fioccose. 

 Cortina white, manifest, Hypholoma-like. Gills whitish, then becoming 

 greenish, and at length olivaceous, adnate, or somewhat sinuate, 2- 



4 mm. broad, crowded. Flesh whitish, becoming greenish, and ferru- 

 ginous at the base of the st. Spores pale ferruginous, elliptical, 6-7 x 4/u,, 

 1-2-guttulate. Caespitose. On old trunks, and buried wood. Aug. 

 Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



1012. F. filicea Cke. Cke. Illus. no. 491, t. 450. Filix, a fern. 

 P. 2-4 cm., deep yellow, disc tawny orange, fleshy, convex, then 



plane, or slightly depressed, minutely squamuloso-fibrillose. St. 3- 



5 cm. x 3 mm., sulphur yellow, base often tawny, equal, almost smooth. 

 Veil reddish, adhering to the st. and the margin of the p. in fugacious 

 fragments. Gills sulphur yellow, then tawny cinnamon, adnate, 3 mm. 

 broad, crowded. Flesh sulphur yellow, thin. Old tree fern stems. 

 Spring and summer. Rare. 



F . chrysophylla (Fr.) Quel. = Omphalia chrysophylla Fr. 



Spores greenish fuscous, or blackish; gills mucilaginous. 



Gomphidius Fr. 

 (<y6fj,<f)os, a large wedge-shaped nail.) 



Pileus fleshy, regular, viscid. Stem central, fleshy. Gills decurrent, 

 mucilaginous. Spores fuscous, olivaceous, or blackish, fusiform, or 

 oblong, smooth, continuous. Cystidia cylindrical, projecting. Grow- 

 ing on the ground. 



1013. G. glutinosus (Schaeff.) Fr. Holland, Champ, t. 74, no. 165. 



Glutinosus, glutinous. 



P. 5-12-5 cm., purple fuscous, or fuscous, often mottled with black 

 spots, fleshy, convex, obtuse, at length plane, smooth, very glutinous. 

 St. 5-10 x 1-2 cm., whitish, yellow at the base, equal, thickened, or 

 attenuated at the base, glutinous, fibrillose, sometimes with black 

 scales. Cortina annular, fugacious. Gills whitish, then cinereous, 

 deeply decurrent, forked, distant, mucilaginous, 6-8 mm. broad. 

 Flesh white, yellow towards the base of the stem, thick. Spores deep 

 olivaceous, spindle-shaped, 18-24 x 5-6/z, 4-5-guttulate. Cystidia 

 "cylindrical, 130-160 x 12-16/Li" Rick. Taste bitter. Coniferous 

 woods. July Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



1014. G. roseus (Fr.) Quel. Cke. Illus. no. 857, t. 880. 



Roseus, rose-coloured. 



P. 2-5 cm., rose, or rose-red colour, convexo-plane, obconical, obtuse, 

 at length sometimes depressed, slightly glutinous. St. 3-5 x 1- 



