PHOLIOTA. 215 



Amongst leaf soil, &c. 



Stem stuffed or partly hollow, 3-4 in. long, 2-3 lines thick, 

 attenuated upwards, silky, yellowish, base incrassated, villoso ; 

 ring median, ample, spreading, lax, even, consisting of a very 

 thin membrane. Pileus fleshy, thin, convexo-pltme, obtuse, 

 even, smooth, yellow, 2 in. broad, smaller in proportion 

 to the stem than in Pholiota praecox or P. durus. Gills not 

 sinuate behind, but equally broad and truly decurrent, linear, 

 li line broad, yellowish then ferruginous-tan, or at lengtli 

 becoming brownish. (Fries.) 



Pholiota molliscoria. Cke. & Mass. 



Pileus 23 in. across, convex then plane, at length de- 

 pressed, obtuse, even, smooth, soft like kid leather, tawny- 

 yellow, paler towards the margin, dry, shining ; flesh, very 

 thin, yellow like that of the stem ; gills adnexed, rounded 

 behind, ventricose, 2 lines broad, crowded, thin, ferruginous ; 

 stem about 3 in. long, ^-^- in. thick, equal, straight, silk}', 

 punctately squamulose at the apex, pale yellow, hollow ; rin<;- 

 distant, broad, yellow then ferruginous from the spores, 

 deciduous; spores elliptic-fusiform, ferruginous, 12 x 56 /x. 



Agaricus (Pholiota) molliscorium, Cooke & Massee, Grev., 

 vol. xvii. p. 1 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 173; Cke., Illustr., pi. 1171. 



On the ground. Gregarious. 



Taste and smell none. Habit that of Pholita praecox, with 

 which it was associated, but diifering in the yellow colour, 

 and the bright ferruginous gills. (Cke. & Mass.) 



B. TRUNCIGENI. 



* Aegeritini. 



Pholiota radicosa. Bull. 



Pileus 2-4 iu. across, fleshy, symmetrical, obtuse, even, 

 glabrous, spotted, pale greyish-tan; gills free, ventricose, 

 3-4 lines broad, pallid then reddish -brown ; stem 4-6 in. long, 

 $ in. or more at thickest part, more or less ventricose below 

 the middle, and passing into a tapering root, concentrically 

 sqTiamulose up to the distant ring, mealy and smooth above, 

 coloured like the pileus or paler, solid; spores pip-shaped, 

 pale, 9 X 4 /*. 



