382 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



at first silky then glabrous, pale yellow, disc darker, often 

 tinged tawny ; gills adnate, crowded, 3-4 lines broad, pale 

 yellow, becoming clouded with grey ; stem 3-5 in. long, 3-5 

 lines thick, subequal, floccoso-fibrillose, whitish, basal portion 

 brownish, apex mealy, hollow ; spores elliptical, 7x4^. 



Agaricus (Hypholoma) epixanthus, Fries, Epicr., p. 222 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 203; Cke., Illustr., pi. 560. 



On old fir stumps, &c. Fasciculate. Smell rather strong. 

 Known by the clear pale yellow gills. Not deliquescing. 



Stem hollow, about 3 in. long, 3-4 lines thick, attenuated 

 from the base, thickened, or equal, floccoso-fibrillose, pale 

 ferruginous or brownish below, apex mealy. Veil appen- 

 diculate, white. Pileus fleshy, rather thin; not hygro- 

 phanous, convexo-plane, obtuse or gibbous, 2-3 in. broad, 

 even, silky then almost glabrous, yellow or pallid, disc 

 usually darker. Flesh white, becoming tinged with yellow. 

 Gills adnate, crowded, at first whitish-yellow, at length grey, 

 not deliquescent, neither purplish nor green. Size very 

 variable ; smell acid. (Fries.) 



Hypholoma fascicularis. Huds. 



Fasciculate, intensely bitter. Pileus 12 in. across, cam- 

 panulato-convex then expanded, subumbonate, thin, glabrous, 

 even, tawny, margin yellow ; gills adnate, very crowded, 

 narrow, yellow then greenish, subdeliquescent ; stem 3-4 in. 

 long, 23 lines thick, fibrillose, yellow, as is also the flesh, 

 curved or flexuous, hollow; veil sometimes appendiculate ; 

 spores elliptical, 7 X 4 p.. 



Agaricus fascicularis, Hudson, Flor. Angl., p. 615 ; Fries, 

 Syst, Myc. i. p. 288 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. '203 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 561 

 and 562 (the latter called Ag. fascicularis, var. elaeodes, Fr.) 



On old stumps, &c. 



Gregarious, densely caespitose. Pileus 2 in. broad, at 

 first conic then expanded, more or less irregular from the 

 tufted mode of growth, subcarnose, thick in the centre, 

 tawny, the margin thin, yellow, with portions of the veil 

 adhering to it, often stained with the ferruginous-purple 

 spores. Gills green, clouded, adnate, with a subdecurrent 

 tooth. Spores elliptic. Stem 2-9 in. high, 2 lines thick, 

 curved and unequal, hollow, fibrillose or squamulose, yellow, 

 greenish above. King stained with the spores, leaving 



