140 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Var. terrestris. Caespitose, stem fusiformly rooting, 

 elongated. 



Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 251. 



Flammula liquiritiae. Pers. 



Pileus 1-3 in. across, flesh thin, splitting, yellow, convex 

 then becoming expanded and almost plane, rather umbonate, 

 glabrous, moist, margin at length finely striate, bay-brown 

 or tawny-orange, becoming pale; gills obtusely adnate, 

 rounded behind, 3 lines broad, golden -yellow then tawny- 

 cinnamon, not spotted ; stem about 2 in. long and 2-3 lines 

 thick, attenuated upwards, often unequal and curved, fibrous, 

 striate, at first covered with white silkiness, tawny-fer- 

 ruginous, hollow, tawny-yellow within ; veil absent. 



Agaricm liquiritiae, Pers., Syn., p. 306 ; Fries, Hym. Eur., 

 p. 251; Cke., Hdbk., p. 172. 



On fir trunks. 



Taste sweet, like that of liquorice. (Berk.) 



Subcaespitose. Stem 2 in. long, 2-3 lines thick, not pruinose 

 nor with a trace of ring, base thickened, villous, tawny- 

 yellow within, pileus 13 broad, golden or orange-tawny, 

 at length flaccid, flesh thin, yellow. Smell acid. (Fries.) 



Plammula picrea. Fr. 



Pileus about 1 in. across, flesh thin, yellowish, splitting, 

 convex then expanded, obtuse, even, glabrous, tawny-bay or 

 brownish-cinnamon, when old pale and tawny, moist in rainy 

 weather ; gills adnate then more or less seceding, crowded, 

 1^ line broad, yellowish then ferruginous ; stem 2-3 long, 

 about 2 lines thick, slightly thinner upwards, straight, not 

 corticated, pale umber, at first mealy, hollow; veil absent; 

 spores elliptical, yellowish, 8-10 x 5-6 p. 



Agaricus (Flammula) picreus, Fries, Syst. Myc., i. p. 239; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 172 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 448. 



On pine stumps, deal boards, &c. 



Subcaespitose. Stem easily compressed, sometimes silky 

 and pale, but darker when bruised. Pileus when moist 

 rufous or bay-cinnamon, becoming pale, tawny, &c., half an 

 inch across, flesh same colour. Gills sometimes almost de- 

 current. Varies with the pileus campanulate, stem slender, 

 straight, equal ; also pileus cracked into papillae, disc rather 

 squamulose. (Fries.) 



