228 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Distinguished by the lurid (dingy brownish-olive), slightly 

 viscid, glabrous pileus and the straight white stem. 



Pholiota Cookei. Fr. 



Pileus 12 in. across, conical then convex, viscid when 

 moist, dirty pale yellow or yellowish-white, clad with 

 scattered, darker, adpressed scales ; flesh thin, white ; gills 

 adnate, slightly ventricose, 1| in. broad, pale, at length 

 brown; stem about 2 in. long, and 2 lines thick, equal, 

 fibrillose up to the very thin, imperfect, superior ring, whitish 

 upwards, reddish-brown below ; solid ; spores narrowly 

 elliptic-fusiform, brownish, 6 x 2 5 p.. 



Agaricus (Pholiota) CooJcei, Fries, Grev., vol. v. p. 56, t. 82, 

 f. 1 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 147 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 354. 



On the ground amongst grass, &c. 



Solitary or in small clusters. Care must be taken not to 

 confound the present species with some of the terrestrial 

 species of Flammula. Distinguished from Pholiota terrigena 

 by the absence of an olivaceous tinge on the gills. 



Pholiota confragosa. Fr. 



Pileus 1-1^ in. across, flesh thin, convex then plane, 

 obtuse, hygrophanous, margin striate, rufous-cinnamon, 

 tawny when dry, at first covered with minute, whitish 

 floccose squamules, then naked; gills adnate, 1 line broad, 

 very much crowded, reddish-brown ; stem about 2 in. long, 

 equal ; below the distant ring obsoletely fibrillosely 

 peronate, hollow, rufous, spores elliptic-oblong, ferruginous, 

 8x4/1. 



Agaricus (Pholiota^) confragosus, Fries, Epicr., p. 169; Fries, 

 Icon., ii. p. 4, pi. 105 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 148. 



On trunks, &c. 



A very distinct and remarkable species. Subcaespitose, 

 fragile. I have seen two forms : (1) Small (young), stem 

 1 in. long, 2 lines thick, fibrillosely peronate by the veil and 

 terminating near the apex in a membranaceous, persistent, 

 spreading ring, stein above the ring striate, naked. (2) 

 (Old), stem up to 3 in. long, but hlender, scarcely a line 

 thick, and like the pileus, naked, ring collapsed. Colour 

 cinnamon-rufous, tawny when dry. Gills adnate, linear, 

 very narrow, much crowded, very thin, cinnamon-rufous, 

 sometimes tinged with purple. (Fries.) 



