550 PAXILLUS 



pallid, somewhat horny, elastic, fibrillose, firm, conico-elongate, or 

 clavate, becoming more equal; base incrassated, rooting, and con- 

 densing the earth into a large ball. Gills whitish, then mouse colour, 

 arcuate, very narrow, 3-4 mm. broad, linear, very crowded. Flesh 

 watery whitish, rigid, compact at the disc, very thin at the margin, 

 spongy in the st., scissile. Spores white, "elliptical, 6-7 x 3-4 p, 

 smooth. Cystidia none" Rick. Grassy places in pine woods. Oct. 

 Rare. 



1817. P. panaeolus Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 863, t. 874, fig. A. 



7rai/ai'oXo9, all- variegated. 



Entirely whitish, the st. becoming rufescent. P. 2-5 cm., fleshy, 

 convexo-plane, then somewhat depressed, smooth; margin thin, in- 

 volute. St. 3-5 cm. x 3-6 mm., attenuated upwards or downwards, 

 striato-fibrillose. Gills at length watery-ferruginous, slightly de- 

 current, narrow, crowded, separated from the hymenophore by a 

 horny line, and readily separating from the p. Flesh becoming black, 

 thin. Spores very pale ferruginous, globose, 5{j,, 1-guttulate. Coni- 

 ferous woods. Oct. Nov. Rare, (v.v.) 



var. spilomaeolus Fr. trTrtXeo/xa, a spot; atoXo?, variegated. 



Differs from the type in the yellowish white p. spotted as with drops, 

 in the slender, yellowish white st. and in the gills being horny grey at the 

 base. Amongst fir leaves. Oct. Rare. 



1818. P. orcelloides Cke. & Massee. Cke. Illus. no. 863, t. 874, fig. B 



Orcella, the species Cliptopilus orcella; etSo?, like. 



P. 2-5 cm., snow white, becoming stained with livid or greyish blotches, 

 fleshy, convex, then flattened, minutely silky, shining; margin thin, 

 persistently incurved. St. 2-5-6 cm. x 3-6 mm., ochraceous, gradually 

 tapering to the base, elastic, silky fibrillose. Gills whitish, then livid, 

 at length dingy yellowish brown, adnato-decurrent, crowded, 3 mm. 

 broad, separated from the flesh of the p. by a horny line. Flesh white, 

 thin at the margin. Spores pale dingy ochraceous, elliptical, 5-8 x 

 3-4/A, 1-guttulate. Woods, and amongst grass. Sept. Nov. Rare. 

 (ft*.) 



1819. P. lividus Cke. Cke. Ulus. no. 864, t. 861. 



Lividus, of a leaden colour. 



P. 2-5-5 cm., dingy white, or livid ochraceous, opaque, convex, at 

 length slightly depressed at the disc. St. 7-5-10 x 1 cm., white, 

 attenuated downwards, fibrillose. Gills white, decurrent, arcuate, 

 3 mm. broad, almost crowded. Flesh whitish, thick at the disc. Spores 

 nearly white, globose, 3-3-5/n. Smell pleasant. Woods. Oct. Un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



