552 PAXILLTJS 



1823. P. porosus Berk. Tropo?, a pore. 

 P. 10-11 cm., reddish claret, or olive brown, fleshy, viscid when 



moist; margin thin, even, not involute. St. 8-9 x 1-5-2 cm., claret 

 brown, darker below, excentric, tough, equal, or attenuated downwards, 

 somewhat reticulate above with the pores. Gills yellow to sulphur 

 green, changing to pale blue, and then brownish when bruised, dull green 

 when old, decurrent, shallow, poriform, pores round to elongate, 

 irregular large to small. Flesh dull pale vinous brown, mottled and 

 streaked, darker and changing colour in the st. Smell very strong, un- 

 pleasant. Moist woods under firs. Sept. Oct. Rare. 



1824. P. leptopus Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 164, fig. 3. 



XeTTTo?, thin; TTOU?, foot. 



P. 4-8 cm., fuscous yellowish, always excentric, or lateral, at length 

 depressed, but gibbous at the disc, fleshy, dry, covered with dense down, 

 soon torn up into dense, villose, fuscous, or yellowish scales. St. 1-2-5 x 

 1 cm.; lemon-yellow-olivaceous, short, attenuated downwards, somewhat 

 incurved. Gills yellowish, then darker, not spotted when touched, de- 

 current, simple, not anastomosing, tense and straight, very narrow, 

 crowded. Flesh yellow, thin at the margin. Spores "pale dingy 

 yellow, pip-shaped, 8-9 x 5/x" Massee. Woods, bogs, and on stumps. 

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



1825. P. atrotomentosus (Batsch) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 869, t. 876. 



Ater, black; tomentosus, woolly. 



P. 5-30 cm., ferruginous, fleshy, excentric, convex, then plano- 

 infundibuliform, sometimes wholly lateral and ascending, dry, 

 rivuloso-granular, sometimes also slightly tomentose; margin thin, 

 involute. St. 5-8 x 1-2-5 cm., covered over with dense, soft, umber 

 blackish, or inclining to violaceous, velvety down, elastic, somewhat 

 equal, curved, ascending, rooting. Gills yellowish, adnate, scarcely 

 decurrent, branched at the base, somewhat anastomosing, 6 mm. 

 broad, crowded, easily separating from the sulcate hymenophore. 

 Flesh white, compact, firm. Spores pale ochraceous, broadly elliptical, 

 4-6 x 3-1/n, 1-guttulate. Cystidia none. Taste mild. Edible. Pine 

 woods and on pine stumps. Aug. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1826. P. crassus Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 870, t. 877. Crassus, thick. 



P. 5-7*5 cm., becoming ferruginous, fleshy, oblique, almost plane, 

 becoming smooth. St. 1-2 x 1 cm., concolorous, tapering downwards, 

 excentric, ascending. Gills cinnamon, decurrent, straight, 4 mm. 

 broad, subdistant. Flesh somewhat concolorous, thick, soft, spongy. 

 Spores "ferruginous, elliptical, 15-18 x 7-8 /tt" Cke. On trunks, 

 worked wood, ground of rifle butts, and in woods. Nov. Rare. 



