142 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



Agaricus (Flammula} helomorphus, ' Fries, Epicr., p. 184 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 172 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 449 A. 



OQ the ground in pine woods, &c. 



Scattered. Pileus often obtusely umbonate, stem sometimes 

 slightly thinner downwards, rather silky above tinder a lens ; 

 distinguished by its small size and white colour. Flammula 

 scamba, its nearest ally, is known by the flocculose stem which 

 eventually becomes tinged with tawny, 



Flammula scamba. Fr. 



Pileus - 1^ in. across, rather fleshy, convex then plane 

 and more or less depressed, viscid in wet weather, floccosely 

 villose, dingy white ; gills adnato-decurrent. crowded, some- 

 what wavy, 2 lines broad, pale yellowish clay-colour ; stem 

 1-1 J in. long, 1 line or more thick, incurved, flocculose, white, 

 usually thinner downwards, partly stuffed ; spores elliptical, 

 yellowish, 10-12 x 5-6 p. 



Agaricus (Flammula} scambus, Fries, Obs., ii. p. 45 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 172 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 449B. 



In pine woods, on larch and on the ground. 



Gregarious, tough, variable in form, pileus sometimes 

 convex and umbonate, stem becoming ferruginous down- 

 wards, and the pileus tinged pale dingy ochraceous. 



Flammula filicea. Cooke. 



Pileus |~1^ in. across, flesh thin, convex then plane or 

 slightly depressed, minutely squamuloso-fibrillose, deep yel- 

 low, tawny-orange in the centre ; gills adnate, crowded, 

 about 1| line broad, sulphur-yellow, at length tawny cinna- 

 mon; stem l|-2 in. long, 1| line thick, equal, even, almost 

 smooth, sulphur-yellow, base often tawny, hollow; veil 

 adhering to the stem and the margin of the pileus in reddish, 

 fugacious fragments. 



Agaricus (Flammula') filiceus,Cke., Seem., Journ. Bot. (1863), 

 p. 66, t. 3, f. 1 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 173; Cke., Illustr., pi. 450. 



On old tree-fern stems. In all probability an introduced 

 species. Eemarkable for the sulphur-yellow colour of every 

 part, flesh also. 



Flammula purpurata. Cke. & Mass. (fig. 15, p. 3.) 

 Pileus 1-2 in. across, fleshy, convex then expanded, ob- 



