424 OMPHALIA 



1364. 0. offuciata Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 72, fig. 3. Offuciata, painted. 

 P. 2-3 cm., dark, then pale flesh colour, becoming pale and almost 



whitish when old and dry, hygrophanous, slightly fleshy, convex, then 

 piano-depressed, smooth. St. 2-5 cm. x 2-4 mm., reddish, or con- 

 colorous, very cartilaginous, round, then compressed, equal, apex 

 obsoletely pruinose, smooth. Gills of the same colour as the pileus, 

 moderately decurrent, narrow, straight, crowded. Under beech. Oct. 

 Nov. Uncommon. 



1365. 0. scyphoides Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 75, fig. 3, as Omphalia scyphi- 

 formis. <ncv(f>o<;, a cup; etSo9, like. 



Shining white, becoming yellowish when dry. P. 8-50 mm., mem- 

 branaceous, umbilicate, then infundibuliform, undulate, silky. St. 

 2-5 cm. x 1-3 mm., flexuose, villose; base white, tomentose. Gills 

 decurrent, narrow, crowded, linear. Flesh white, thin at the margin. 

 Spores white, boat-shaped, 8-9 x 5/u,, and 6 x 2-3/n, 1-guttulate. 

 On bare soil and amongst leaves in woods. Aug. Oct. Uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 

 B. Medium size; gills rather distant, narrow, attenuated at both ends. 



1366. 0. chrysophylla Fr. (= Flammula chrysophylla (Fr.) Quel.) Fr. 

 Icon. t. 74, fig. 1. y^pva'6^, gold; <f>v\Xov, leaf. 



P. 2-5 cm., yellow-fuscous when moist, tan-hoary or hoary whitish 

 when dry, submembranaceous, at the first deeply umbilicate, flocculose, 

 subsquamulose, the spreading border somewhat reflexed. St. 2-5- 

 5cm. x 4mm., golden egg-yellow, tough, equal, somewhat incurved; 

 base villose, rooting. Gills golden egg-yellow, truly decurrent, distant, 

 broad. Spores white, "pale yellow" Quel., "elliptical, 11-12 x 5/u,, 

 smooth. Cystidia none" Rick. On pine sawdust, and stumps. Aug. 

 Oct. Uncommon. 



1367. 0. Allenii Rene Maire. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. in, t. 11. 



W. B. Allen, the mycologist of Benthall, Broseley, Shropshire. 

 P. 1-2 cm., olive-greenish, whitish when dry, hygrophanous, convex, 

 then plane, somewhat umbilicate, thin. St. 2-4 cm. x 2-5 mm., lemon- 

 yellow, cylindrical, subcartilaginous ; base white, strigose. Gills lemon- 

 yellow, decurrent, very narrow, somewhat thick, subdistant, unequal, 

 more or less undulating, united by veins. Flesh yellow in the stem, 

 greenish yellow in the pileus. Spores white, elliptical, 6-5-7-5 x 3-5- 

 4/u.. Cystidia none. Taste mild. On a stump of a deciduous tree. 

 Sept. Rare, (v.v.) 



1368. 0. Postii Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 74, fig. 2. 



H. von Post, the Swedish mycologist. 



P. 2-6 cm., bright orange, membranaceous, at first umbilicate, then 

 depressed, convex, smooth, striate towards the margin. St. 5-8 cm. x 



