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ventricose and ending in a fusiform rooting base, peronate 

 from the veil ; sometimes truly glabrous, shining, sometimes 

 squamulose, sulphur-colour, even and mealy above the in- 

 ferior, persistent, spreading ring. Pileus fleshy, compact, 

 hemispherical, obtuse, dry, 2-5 in. broad, torn into adpressed, 

 innate, similarly coloured squamules, the inflexed margin 

 continued by the veil. Flesh thick, hard, sulphur-colour, 

 bitter- aromatic to the taste. Gills adnate, often with a de- 

 current tooth, closely crowded, narrow, at first pure yellow, 

 then ferruginous. Distinct and remote from every species, 

 analogous with Pholiota aurea, but perhaps most nearly allied 

 to Pholiota radicosa. (Fries.) 



Pholiota adiposa. Fr. 



Fileus 2-4 in. across, fleshy, compact, convex, obtuse, glu- 

 tinous, yellow, with centrically arranged, superficial, seced- 

 ing, darker squarrose scales; flesh whitish; gills adnate, 

 ;j-4 lines broad, yellow then ferruginous ; stem 3-6 in. long, 

 up to | in. thick, subequal, base somewhat bulbous, yellow, 

 furnished with concentrically-arranged ferruginous, eva- 

 nescent squamules up to the superior floccose, radiating ring, 

 stuffed ; spores elliptical, ferruginous, 7 X 3 //,. 



Agaricus (Pholiota) adiposus, Fries, Syst. Myc., i. p. 242 

 (not of Batsch) ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 145 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 535. 



On trunks. Caespitese. 



Distinguished by the glutinous pileus and stem, both of 

 which are at first covered with ferruginous squamules that 

 appear to deliquesce in the gluten. 



Usually caespitose and forming large clusters. "When well- 

 developed, very showy, often very large. Stem solid, 3 

 G in. long, i-1 in. thick, thickened downwards, compact, 

 whitish when young, then yellow, viscid, covered with 

 squarrose, reflexed squamules, that become ferruginous from 

 the falling spores, at length disappearing, ring for the most 

 part curtain-like, floccoso- radiating, yellow, at length ferru- 

 ginous. Pileus fleshy, convex then expanded, rather gib- 

 bous, 3-7 in. broad, very viscid, dripping gluten in rainy 

 weather, yellow, at first covered with superficial, floccose 

 subconcentric, at first adpressed, then squarrose, reflexed 

 ferruginous squamules, shining in dry weather from the 

 dried-up gluten. Flesh whitish, compact at the disc. Gills 



