138 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



not pulverulent, but covered with the copious ferruginous 

 spores. Stem whitish-yellow, not becoming ferruginous, 

 not rooting, equal or attenuated at the base. Pileus yellow- 

 ish clay- colour, rather viscid. (Fries.) 



Cooke's figure differs in the very bright gills and stem 

 ferruginous below. 



Flammula inopoda. Fr. 



Pileus 14 in. across, convex then becoming almost plane, 

 obtuse, even, smooth, slightly viscid when moist, honey- 

 coloured tan, or with a reddish tinge, paler round the margin, 

 becoming pale ; flesh thin, coloured like the pileus, white 

 when dry; gills adnate, thin, crowded, about 2 lines broad, 

 yellowish-white, sometimes with a tinge of green ; stem 36 

 long, 1-3 lines thick, flexuous, equal, rooting, adpressedly 

 fibrillose, pale above, reddish-brown below, hollow; spores 

 broadly elliptical, ferruginous-brown, 10 x 6 p.. 



Agaricus (Flammula) inopus, Fries, Syst. Myc., i. p. 251 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 171 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 446. 



On pine trunks. 



Caespitose or gregarious; pileus rather viscid in moist 

 weather, honey-clay-colour, becoming pale, margin paler 

 flesh similarly coloured, white when dry. Gills sometimes 

 with a pallid greenish tinge, but dry ; spores scanty, dingy 

 ferruginous. (Fries.) 



Distinguished by the long, tapering, rooting base of the 

 stem. 



Flammula apicrea. Fr. 



Pileus lg 3 in. across, convex then expanded and almost 

 plane, flesh thin, yellow, even, glabrous, moist, dingy orange, 

 disc darker, margin often splitting ; gills adnate, crowded, 

 thin, 2 lines broad, shining ferruginous; stern 2-3 in. long, 

 2-3 lines thick, equal, not rooting, pallid, fibrillose, ferrugi- 

 nous downwards as are also the fibrils, hollow, flesh yellow ; 

 spores ferruginous, elliptical, 7x3/1. 



Agaricus (Flammula^) apicrea, Fries, Epicr., p. 188 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 171 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 436. 



On rotten trunks. Eather caespitose. 



Very similar to Flammula alnicola, but the colour of the 

 gills almost unchangeable, flesh hygrophanous, pileus clay- 

 colour, disc fulvous, becoming pale, smell sweet. (Fries.) 



