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long, 3 lines thick at the apex, curved, solid, attenuated at 

 the base and rooting, dark red-brown and sparsely squamulose 

 v below ; flesh pale yellow, at length changing to cinnabar 

 colour ; ring superior, fibrillose. 



Agaricus (Pholiota) cruentata, Cooke & Smith, Grev., xiii. 

 p. 58 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 146 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 502. 



On oak stumps, also on burnt ground. 



Allied to Pholiota tuberculosa and P. curvipoda, but dis- 

 tinguished by the rooting dark red-brown base of the stem 

 and the cinnabar-coloured flesh. Taste insipid. 



E * Hygrophani. 



Pholiota paxillus. Fr. 



Pileus 3-5 in. across, rather compact, gibboso-convex, then 

 expanded, even, moist, rather repand, dark cinnamon-colour ; 

 paler when dry ; gills rather decurrent, crowded, broad, 

 cinnamon ; stem 4-6 in. long, ^ in. and more thick, slightly 

 attenuated upwards, smooth, even, cinnamon, solid; ring 

 superior, narrow, spreading. 



Agaricus (Pholiota) paxillus, Fries, Epicr., p. 168 ; Bulliard, 

 Champ. 543, f. 2 : Cke., Hdbk., p. 147. 



On trunks. 



Solitary. Large, 3-5 in. broad, firm, entirely cinnamon - 

 colour, pileus moist, becoming pale, silky when dry, at length 

 depressed towards the centre. (Fries.) 



Pholiota dissimulans. B. & Br. 



Pileus -1 in. across, obtusely campanulate, then ex- 

 panded with the margin involute, and often gibbous or 

 obtusely umbonate, scarcely viscid, hygrophanous, lurid then 

 becoming pale ; flesh thin, white ; gills sinuately adnate, at 

 length decurrent, 2 lines broad, pallid tan ; stem 1^2 in. 

 long, 1-1| line thick at the apex, thickened downwards, 

 white, cottony at the base, hollow ; ring superior, erect, 

 often persistent, white ; spores elliptical, 7 x 4-4 5 p.. 



Agaricus (Pholiota) dissimulans, Berk. & Broome, Ann. of 

 Nat. Hist., n. 1940 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 147 ; Cke., Illustr., 

 pi. 371. 



On fallen sticks. 



Q 2 



