10 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Var. excentricus, Fries. 

 Pileus excentric, stem short. 

 On trunks. 



Paxillus leptopus. Fr. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, excentric, gibbous, at length de- 

 pressed, torn into villose squamules, yellowish-brown, flesh 

 yellow ; . gills decurrent, simple, straight, very narrow, 

 yellowish, then darker, not becoming spotted when bruised ; 

 stem solid, very short, attenuated downwards, incurved, 

 rarely 1 in. long, flesh yellow ; spores pip-shaped, pale dingy 

 yellow, 8-9 X 5 /x. 



Paxillus leptopus, Fries, Monogr., ii. p. 311 ; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 287 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 875. 



Paxillus filamentosus, Fries, Epicr., p. 317. 



On the ground and on stumps. 



On the ground amongst fragments of pine wood. Ee- 

 sembling Paxillus involutus, but differing : (1) Stem very 

 short, scarcely reaching 1 inch, rather incurved, attenuated 

 downwards, yellow within. (2) Pileus always excentric or 

 lateral, at length depressed, but gibbous at the centre, 

 1^-3 in. broad, dry, densely tomentose, soon broken up into 

 densely compacted, villose, brown or yellowish squamules. 

 Thin flesh of the pileus and that of the stem, yellow. 

 Gills simple behind, decurrent, but not anastomosing, 

 straight, crowded, very narrow, yellowish, then becoming 

 darker, but not becoming spotted when touched. Size and 

 form variable, smaller than P. involutus, commonly 2 in. 

 broad and high. (Fries.) 



Paxillus atro-tomentosus. Fr. 



Pileus 3-5 in. across, very fleshy and compact, more or less 

 excentric, gibbous then passing from plane to infundibuli- 

 form, dry, rivuloso-granulose, ferruginous, margin thin, 

 involute ; flesh white, tinged brown under the cuticle ; gills 

 adnato-decurrent, crowded, 2 lines broad, branched at the 

 base, yellowish tawny; stem about 1 in. long and thick, 

 ascending, rooting, covered except at the apex with a dense 

 blackish-umber velvety pile ; spores elliptical, pale yellowish, 

 5 x 2J-3 ft. 



Paxillus atro-tomentosus, Fries, Epicr., p. 317; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 288; Cke., Illustr., pi. 876. 



