388 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Hypholoma velutinus. Pers. 



Pileus 2-4 in. across, rather fleshy, campanulate then 

 expanded, at length obtusely umbonate, even, at first 

 tomentose with adpressed fibrils, then almost glabrous, 

 hygrophanous, flesh very thin, coloured like the pileus; 

 stem 34 in. long, 35 lines thick, hollow, silky -fibrous, dirty 

 clay-colour ; gills separating from the stem, rather crowded, 

 brownish then bay-brown, spotted with black; spores 

 elliptical, 10 x 5 p.. 



Agaricus velutinus, Persoon, Syn., p. 409 ; Fries, Hym. 

 Eur., p. 293 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 205 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 563. 



Amongst grass, &c. Size variable, often very large, 

 fragile. Not caespitose. 



Subcaespitose, fragile ; stem hollow, up to 4-5 in. long, \ 

 in. and more thick in the largest forms, in smaller forms 2 

 in. long, 2 lines thick,- equal, silky-fibrillose, tomentose above 

 from the veil, dingy clay-colour; veil especially attached to 

 the margin of the pileus, woolly, at first white, then blackish ; 

 pileus rather fleshy, campanulate then expanded, at length 

 obtusely umbonate, not squamose, but when young entirely 

 tomentose with adpressed fibrils, at length almost glabrous 

 and even, 24 in. broad, livid when fresh, tawny when half 

 dry, dirty clay-colour when dry. Flesh very thin, coloured 

 like the pileus, fragile. Gills adfixed and readily seceding 

 (almost free), broad (4-5 lines in larger form), not crowded, 

 at first brownish, margin white, then bay-brown, spotted 

 with black. (Fries.) 



Hypholoma velutinus. Pers. /3. leiocephalus. 



Pileus hygrophanous, rugged, smooth except at the 

 margin, which like the stem is fibrillose, apex of stem 

 farinose. 



On old stumps. 



Densely caespitose ; much smaller than the common form, 

 but apparently a mere variety, though a very striking one, 

 from its smooth, but very rugged disc. (B. & Br.) 



Hypholoma pyrotrichus. Holmsk. 

 Pileus 2-4 in. across, rather fleshy, conical, then hemi- 

 spherical, obtuse, covered with orange-tawny fibrils collected 



