PAXILLUS. 11 



In pine woods on trunks and on the ground. Commonly- 

 solitary. 



Eobust, firm, often large ; usually solitary. Stem solid, 

 elastic, 2-3 in. long, -1 in. thick, subequal, not tuberous, 

 curved, ascending, rooting, covered densely with umber- 

 black tomentum, which sometimes has a violet tinge. Pileus 

 compact, fleshy, excentric, plane then infundibuliform, some- 

 times entirely lateral and ascending, 2-4 in. and more broad, 

 dry, surface cracked into granules, sometimes tomentose, 

 ferruginous, form various. Gills adnate, hardly decurrent, 

 and appearing from their position, ascending, branched at 

 the base, rather anastomosing but not porose as in P. 

 involutes, crowded, 3 lines broad, yellowish, readily separating 

 from the grooved flesh of the pileus. Spores almost clay- 

 colour, paler than those of P. involutus. (Fries.) 



Paxillus crassus. Fr. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, oblique, almost plane, even, becoming 

 ferruginous ; flesh thin at the margin, thick at the centre 

 and passing insensibly into the stem, soft and spongy, 

 yellowish-brown ; gills decurrent, 2 lines broad, rather 

 distant, straight, not anastomosing, cinnamon ; stem ^ in. 

 long, tapering downwards, excentric, ascending, stuffed, 

 coloured like the pileus ; spores elliptical, ferruginous, 

 15-18 x 7-8 fji. 



Paxillus crassus, Fries, Epicr., p. 318 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 288 ; 

 Cke., Illustr., pi. 877. 



On trunks, worked wood, &c. 



The present species looks much more like a Flammula than 

 a Paxillus. 



Paxillus panuoides. Fr. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, dimidiate, shell-shaped or fan- 

 shaped, minutely pubescent then almost smooth, sessile or 

 extended behind into a stem-like base, dingy yellow ; gills 

 decuvrent, crowded, branched, crisped or rugulose, yellow ; 

 flesh of pileus 2 lines thick, equal. 



Paxillus panuoides, Fries, Epicr., p. 318; Cke., Hdbk., p. 

 288 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 878. 



On pine and other wood, on sawdust, &c. 



Very variable. 



Very distinct from the preceding species in the pileus 



