13() FUNGUS-FLORA. 



at all darker, covered more or less with fibrillose scales, 

 stuffed then hollow. Veil evident, white, appendiculate. 



Agaricus (Flammula) astragalinus, Fries, Syst. Myc., i. 

 p. 251 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 169 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 435. 



On pine and fir stumps. 



Very distinct, exceedingly elegant. Stem elongated, base 

 attenuated, coloured like the pileus. Pileus when rather 

 moist blood-red saffron, then the margin becomes pale, flesh, 

 similar in colour, becoming black when wounded. Gills 

 colour of the base of the pileus ; spores dingy ferruginous. 

 (Fries.) 



Taste nauseous and disagreeable, like Armillaria mellea. 

 A most beautiful species, resembling in colouring Cortinarius 

 cinnabarinus. (Cooke.) 



riammula alnicola. Fr. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, convex then expanded, obtuse, rather 

 slimy at first but not truly viscid, at first minutely and 

 superficially silky near the margin, yellow then tawny or 

 greenish ; flesh not very firm, coloured like the pileus ; gills 

 slightly adnate, 2 lines broad, plane, pale yellow then 

 ferruginous; stem 2-4 in. long, 3-5 lines thick, nearly equal, 

 base attenuated, usually curved or wavy, fibrillose, yellow 

 then more or less ferruginous ; spores clear ferruginous, 

 elliptical, 9 x 4 /*. 



Agaricus (Flammula') alnicola, Fries, Syst. Myc., i. p. 250 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 170; Cke., Illustr., tab. 443. 



On trunks and stumps of various trees. Usually fasci- 

 culate. 



Smell strong. Pileus yellow then ferruginous, rarely 

 greenish, flesh similarly coloured. Gills sometimes rounded, 

 at others decurrent. Spores pure ferruginous. Veil fibrillose 

 or interwoven. There are two forms (a) pileus irregular, 

 fibrillose near the margin, gills at first dingy pallid ; 

 (b) salicicola, pileus subgibbous, glabrous, rarely at first 

 tioccosely squamulose ; gills at first yellowish-pallid. (Fries.) 



Flammula flavida. Schaeff. 



Pileus 1-3 in. across, sometimes more, fleshy, convexo- 

 plane, obtuse, equal, glabrous, moist, not viscid, pale yellow ; 

 flesh white then pale yellow ; gills adnate, 2-3 lines broad, 



