PAXILLUS 551 



1820. P. revolutus Cke. Cke. Illus. no. 865, t. 862. 



Revolutus, rolled back. 



P. 2-5-4 cm., pale ochraceous, disc slightly darker, fleshy, convex, 

 obtuse; margin thin, even, sometimes at first tinged with violet, a 

 little revolute. St. 3-5 x 1 cm., paler than the p., often tinted violet at 

 the base, attenuated downwards. Gills pallid, then clay coloured, very 

 decurrent, scarcely crowded. Flesh white, thin at the margin. Spores 

 pale, globose, 3-5-4/u,. Smell mealy. Fields. Oct. Uncommon, 



II. P. commonly excentric, or resupinate. Spores ferruginous. 



1821 . P. paradoxus (Kalchbr.) Quel. (= Flammula paradoxa Kalchbr. ; 

 Flammula Tammii Fr. sec. Bres.; Phylloporus Pelletieri (Lev.) 

 Quel.) Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 207, as Phylloporus rhodoxanthus 

 (Schw.) Bres. Tra/aaSofo?, strange. 



P. 5-8 cm., deep rufous umber, or yellowish brown, fleshy, convex, 

 or pulvinate, then plane, adpressedly tomentose, becoming smooth, 

 dry; margin often lobed and sinuate. St. 3-5 cm. x 6-15 mm., 

 yellow, often with a dingy purplish tinge, bulbous, or attenuated at the 

 base, equal, or fusiform, somewhat rooted, adpressedly fibrillose, the 

 cuticle often breaking up into squarrosely revolute flaps. Gills yellow, 

 then golden, becoming reddish when bruised, decurrent, distant, the 

 alternate ones broader, connected by veins at the base, and in some 

 cases anastomosing to form pores towards the margin. Flesh reddish, 

 becoming yellow, soft, juicy. Spores lurid ochraceous, oblong, 12-13 x 

 4-5 fj,, often 2-guttulate. Cystidia "almost flask-shaped-lanceolate, 

 60-70 x 9-15 ju," Rick. Woods. Aug. Nov. Rather uncommon, (v.v.) 



1822. P. involutus (Batsch) Fr. Involutus, rolled in. 

 P. 7-20 cm., ochrey ferruginous, fleshy, convexo-plane, then de- 

 pressed, for the most part central, pubescent, soon becoming smooth, 

 somewhat viscid when moist, shining when dry; margin obtuse, villous, 

 closely involute, then extenuated and acute. St. 5-8 x 1-4 cm., dingy 

 yellowish, generally spotted, thickened upwards, more rarely bulbous 

 at the base, naked. Gills pallid, then ferruginous, at once dingy-spotted 

 when touched, decurrent, rather broad, branched behind, and often 

 anastomosing and forming pores near the st. Flesh pallid, or yellowish, 

 compact, soft. Spores deep ochraceous, elliptical, 8-10 x 5-7 JLI. Cys- 

 tidia "lanceolate, 60-75 x 8-15/i" Rick. Taste mild. Edible. Woods, 

 heaths, and pastures. June Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



var. excentricus Fr. eKicevrpos, out of the centre. 



Differs from the type in the excentric p. and short st. On^trunks, 

 and stumps. Aug. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 

 var. subinvolutus (Batsch) W. G. Sm. 



Sub, somewhat; involutus, rolled in. 



Differs from the type in the less involute margin of the p. 



