

GOMPHIDIUS 325 



1-5 cm., white, often tinged with rose at the base, attenuated downwards. 

 Cortina thin, slightly glutinous. Gills whitish cinereous, then olivaceous, 

 decurrent, 4-5 mm. broad, distant, forked. Flesh white, rosy under 

 the cuticle and at the base of the st. Spores pale greyish olivaceous, 

 fusiform, 15-17 x 4-5 /i, 1-3-guttulate. Cystidia "cylindrical, 90- 

 160 x 12-15 fj." Kick. Taste pleasant. Coniferous woods, and under 

 conifers. Aug. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1015. G. viscidus (Linn.) Fr. Cke. Elus. no. 858, t. 881. 



Viscidus, viscid. 



P. 5-15 cm., fuscous rufous, fleshy, campanulate, or obconical, then 

 expanded, umbonate, slightly viscid, paler and shining when dry. 

 St. 7-12 x 2-3 cm., concolorous, paler, yellowish at the base, equal, or 

 attenuated downwards, fibrillosely scaly, slightly viscid. Cortina 

 floccose, forming a fugacious ring. Gills olivaceous, then fuscous 

 purple, deeply decurrent, distant, often branched, edge often paler. 

 Flesh reddish, deep yellow in the lower two-thirds of the st. Spores 

 brownish olivaceous, subfusiform, 18-22 x 6-7 /x, 3-guttulate. Cys- 

 tidia obtusely cylindrical, apex often subcapitate, 135150 x 15 17/u,. 

 Taste mild, often slightly astringent. Edible, indigestible to some 

 people. Coniferous woods, and under conifers. July Dec. Common. 

 (v.v.) 

 var. testaceus Fr. Testaceus, brick-red. 



Differs from the type in the brick-red colour of the flatter p., and base 

 of st. both externally and internally. Coniferous woods, and under 

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



1016. G. maculatus (Scop.) Fr. (= Gomphidius gracilis B. & Br. sec. 

 Quel.) Maculatus, spotted. 



P. 36 cm., reddish brown, disc paler, often spotted with black, and 

 becoming black at the edge, campanulate, or obconic, then plane, 

 glutinous. St. 6-8 x 1-1-5 cm., white, yellow at the base, becoming 

 blackish when touched, ventricose downwards, expanding into the p. 

 at the apex, floccose, slightly viscid. Gills white cinereous, then 

 olivaceous, deeply decurrent, often forked, somewhat crowded. Flesh 

 whitish, stained bistre in the p. and yellow towards the base of the st., 

 thick at the disc, thin at the margin. Spores olivaceous, fusiform, 

 somewhat blunt at the end, 17-20 x 6/z, 1-3-guttulate. Cystidia 

 obtusely cylindrical, or fusiform, 120 -140 x 18-20/A. Coniferous 

 woods, and under conifers. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 

 var. Cookei Massee. Cke. Illus. no. 859, t. 882, as Gomphidius macu- 

 latus Scop. var. M. C. Cooke, the eminent mycologist, 



P. 2-5-5 cm., whitish, with black stains especially near the margin, 

 convex, then subdepressed, or gibbous, viscid. St. 6-8 x 1 cm., pale 

 above, becoming blackish towards the base, attenuated upwards. Gills 



