134 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



*** UDI. 



Flammula filia. Fr. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, rather fleshy, convex then plane, 

 glabrous, moist in rainy weather, but not viscid, pale reddish- 

 yellow, disc tawny; gills adnate, slightly arcuate, hence 

 with a minute decurrent tooth, rather crowded, 3-4 lines 

 broad, narrowest in front, whitish then pale tawny -yellow; 

 stein 4-6 in. long, about ^ in. thick, equal or attenuated at 

 the base, glabrous, pale yellow, flesh, reddish, hollow; spores 

 tawny-orange, elliptic-fusiform, 10 x 5 p.. 



Agaricus (Flammula) filius, Fries, Icon. Sel., vol. xi. p. 16, 

 pi. 117, fig. 1 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 169; Cke., lllustr., pi. 432. 



On the ground in woods. 



Tall, elegant, inodorous. Stem hollow, 36 in. long, | in. 

 thick, equal or attenuated at the base, glabrous, becoming 

 pale, base and inside reddish. Veil fugacious, terminated by 

 an incomplete ring. Pileus slightly fleshy, soon flattened, 

 2-3 in. broad, naked, even, glabrous, without a viscid pellicle, 

 although, becoming quite moist in rainy weather, gilvous, 

 disc rufescent. Flesh of the pileus white, that of the stem 

 reddish. (Fries.) 



The figure in " Illustrations " has too yellow a tone, and 

 is printed rather too dark in the pileus. (Cooke.) 



Flammula fusus. Batsch. 



Pileus 2-3J in. across, fleshy, compact, convex, obtuse, 

 becoming plane or a little depressed, even, smooth, rather 

 viscid, reddish tan-colour, disc darker, flesh becoming 

 yellowish, veil appendiculate ; gills rather decurrent, 3-4 

 lines broad, pallid yellow then ferruginous; stem 2 in. long, 

 about | in. thick at the apex, and gradually attenuated 

 downwards into a rooting base, firm, fibrilloso-striate, pallid, 

 base sometimes dark, stuffed ; spores rusty -brown, elliptical, 

 10 X 4 p.. 



Agaricus fusus, Batsch, f. 189 ; Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 247 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 169 ; Cke., lllustr., pi. 433. 



Agaricus pomposm, Bolton, t. 5. 



On fallen wood and on the ground. 



Solitary or caespitose. Smell not pungent, taste mild. 

 The colour of the gills is variable, greyish-green, &c. 



