220 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



gibbous, slightly viscid, tawny-yellow, variegated with 

 adpressed, darker scales; gills sinuate, adfixed, 23 lines 

 broad, white then straw-colour, finally rusty-umber ; stem 

 4-6 in. long, |-|- in. thick, almost equal, curved, yellowish, 

 with scattered, adpressed, rusty-brown floccose squamules, 

 stuffed, often hollow with age ; ring rather distant, imper- 

 fect ; spores elliptical, 5 x 2 5 //,. 



Agaricus aurivellus, Batsch, Consp., f. 115; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 144; Cke., Illustr., pi. 351. 



On trunks ; caespitose. 



Disc of the pileus compact, when young, and after expan- 

 sion towards the margin, floccose, rusty-yellow. Gills at 

 length bay. (Fries.) 



The pileus is not so glutinous as in PJwliota adiposa, and 

 the stem is not viscid. P. spectabilis differs in having the 

 pileus perfectly dry (not viscid), and in the adnato-decurrent 

 gills. 



Forming small clusters and often solitary. Smell scarcely 

 noticeable. Stem stuffed, partly rooting, about 3 in. long, 

 | | and more thick, almost equal, not attenuated at the 

 base, but often thickened, comic only curved, covered with 

 adpressed, floccosely fibrillo,se, brownish-ferruginous tomen- 

 tum, then almost naked, fibrillose, yellowish. Eing silky 

 on the margin of the inflexed pileus, submembranaceous on 

 the stem near to the pileus. Pileus fleshy, campanulate 

 then convex, disc compact and gibbous after expansion, 

 3-5 in. broad, moist, scarcely viscid, in the young stage, and 

 towards the margin when older, with scattered, adpressed, 

 spot-like darker scales, yellow or ferruginous-yellow. Flesh 

 of pileus and stem white then yellowish. Gills sinuate, 

 adnexed, broad, crowded, at first whitish then straw-colour, 

 at length ferruginous-bay, or almost brown, never with an 

 olive shade. Spores ferruginous. (Fries.) 



Pholiota squarrosa. Mull. 



Pileus 2-4 in. across, fleshy, campanulate then expanded, 

 often gibbous, dry, yellowish-brown, covered with darker, 

 innate, squarrose scales ; gills slightly decurrent, crowded, 

 about 2 lines broad, pallid olive then ferruginous ; stem 3-5 

 in. long, 3-5 in. thick, slightly attenuated towards the base, 

 flexuous or ascending, pale tawny-brown and covered with 



