HYPHOLOMA. 387 



Agaricus (Hypholoma) hypoxanthus, Phillips & Plowright, 

 Grevillea, vol. xiii. p. 48. 



Agaricus (Hypholoma) storea, Fries, var. caespitosa, Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 204 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 543 (the yellow base of 

 the stem and the orange mycelium not shown). 



It is always caespitose, and has hitherto occurred either on 

 rotten beech- wood or under beech- trees. (Phil. & Plow.) 



Hypholoma lacrymabundus. Fr. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, fleshy, convex, obtuse, piloso- 

 squamose with darker innate squamules, at first white then 

 brownish ; flesh white ; gills about 3 lines broad, adnate, 

 crowded, brownish-purple, beaded with drops of moisture in 

 wet weather ; stem 2 in. long, 3 lines thick, equal, or 

 slightly thickened at the base, fibrilloso-squamose, whitish 

 then brownish, hollow ; spores elliptic-fusiform, purple- 

 brown, 9 X 4 //,. 



Agaricus lacrymabundus, Fries, Syst. Myc. i. p. 287 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 205 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 566? 



On the ground and on trunks. Truly caespitose. 



Smaller than H. pyrotrichus and IT. velutinus, but firmer, 

 truly fleshy, not hygrophanous. Veil white, spores purple- 

 brown. Pileus and stem at first white, then brownish. A 

 very distinct species, but often confounded with the above- 

 mentioned species. (Fries.) 



Cooke's figure quoted above differs from Fries' description 

 in many particulars, as the solid stem, adnexed gills, &c. 



From H. pyrotricha and H. velutina, with which it has 

 been confounded, it is" quite distinct in the fleshy, not 

 hygrophanous pileus ; truly caespitose, firm ; stem hollow, 



2 in. long, 3-4 lines thick, base rather incrassated, fibrilloso- 

 squamose, brownish-white. Veil discrete, fibrillose, ap- 

 pendiculate, white. Pileus truly fleshy, but not very 

 compact, convex, obtuse, 2-3 in. broad, piloso-squamose, 

 squamules innate, darker, white when young, then brown, 

 becoming paler towards the margin. Pileus often irregular 

 from mutual pressure. Flesh white. Gills adnate, crowded, 



3 lines broad, whitish, then like the spores brownish-purple, 

 edge white, and in rainy weather beaded with drops of 

 moisture. (Fries.) 



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