386 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



groups of two or three individuals. A very distinct species, 

 characterised by the distinctly bulbous base of the solid 

 stem. 



*** VELUTINI. 



Hypholoma storea. Fr. 



Pileus 3 in. across, fleshy, convexo-plane, umbonate, 

 usually depressed round the umbo, dry, fibrillose, pale 

 brownish or dingy pale ochraceous ; gills adnate, dry, livid- 

 brownish, margin white, serrulate ; stem 4-5 in. long, 4 lines 

 thick, firm, solid, equal, even, rather fibrillose, pallid. 



Agaricus (Hypholoma) storea, Fries, Epicr., p. 223 ; Fries, 

 Hym. Eur., p. 293 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 204. 



On decayed beech trunks, &c. 



On a decayed part of a living beech trunk, found in 1815 ; 

 and again appearing from the same crack in 1833. Firm, 

 solitary, not hygrophanous, in which it differs from H. 

 lacrymabundus, H. pyrotricJius, &c., with the habit of Inocybe. 

 Stem solid, 45 in. long, 4 lines thick, equal, round, even, 

 rather fibrillose, pallid. Pileus fleshy, convex, broadly 

 umbonate, rather depressed round the umbo, about 3 in. 

 broad, the entire surface broken up into adnate longitudinal 

 fibrils, (rarely squarrose) ; becoming dingy brownish. Veil 

 appendiculate from the margin, the fibrils continuous with 

 those of the pileus, Flesh white, compact, not thick. Gills 

 adnate, with a decurrent tooth, livid-greyish, at length brown, 

 edge at first white and serrulate ; spores brown, not purple- 

 brown. (Fries.) 



Hypholoma hypoxanthus. Phil. & Plow. (fig. 9, 



p. 351.) 



Caespitose. Pileus about 2 in. across, umbonate, moist, 

 viscid, dirty white, umbo darker, brownish, squamulose with 

 minute black fibrillae, which are evanescent ; gills purple- 

 brown, crowded, narrow, edge white, adnate, seceding, some- 

 times forked ; pileus subcarnose, except the centre, which is 

 a thick fleshy umbo ; stem 2-4 in. high, 3 lines thick, curved, 

 hollow, incrassated below, whitish, smooth above, floccoso- 

 squamose below ; base with a distinct yellow tinge ; my- 

 celium orange-yellow ; spores elliptical, 5 x 2-2 5 p. 



