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but not sinuate, usually entire ; veil fibrillose, not inter- 

 woven, or altogether absent, never forming a distinct ring on 

 the stem ; spores ferruginous or brownish-ferruginous. 



Flammula, Fries, Syst. Myc., i. p. 250; Cke., Hdbk., p. 166. 



Closely allied to Pholiota, in fact the only difference 

 between the two genera depends on the relative development 

 of the partial veil, which in the present genus is fibrillose, 

 and consequently does not form a persistent, spreading ring 

 on the stem, whereas in Pholiota the veil is interwoven, and 

 remains as a distinct ring on the stem. 



Very few species are terrestrial, the majority growing oa 

 wood. The colours are often bright, orange-brown, or yellow 

 being most general. 



ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIES. 



I. GYMNOTI. Veil absent; pileus dry, often squaniulose. 

 Spores ferruginous. 



II. LUBRICI. Pileus covered with a continuous, viscid, 

 glabrous, partly separable cuticle ; veil evident, fibrillose. 

 Spores ferruginous, not tawny, ultimately brownish-fer- 

 ruginous. 



Gregarious, growing on the ground, rarely on wood. Cor- 

 responds to Hebeloma, but distinguished by the gills not 

 being sinuate, apex of stem not mealy, pellicle more viscid 

 and more readily separable, smell, &c. 



III. UDI. Cuticle of the pileus continuous, not separable, 

 glabrous (superficially downy), moist or rather viscid in 

 rainy weather. Veil evident, appendiculate. Spores not 

 tawny nor ochraceous. 



Allied to PJioliota ; caespitose, growing on wood. 



IV. SAPINEI. Pileus scarcely pelliculose (flesh splitting or 

 becoming torn at the surface into squamules), not viscid. 

 Veil silky, adpressed on the stem, not appendiculate, almost 

 absent or forming a silky zone round the stem. Known 

 more especially by the yellow, or yellow then tawny-colour 

 of the gills and the tawny-ochraceous spores. 



