OCHRE-SPORED AGARICS. 



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well as F. tammii Fr., with which Patouillard (Tab. Anal. N. 354) 

 places F. paradoxa and Clitocybe pelletieri. 



Paxillus atro=tomento8U8 (Batsch) Fr. This plant is not very com- 

 mon. It is often of quite large size, 6-15 cm. high, and the cap 5-10 

 cm. broad, the stem very short or sometimes long, from 1-2.5 ^^' 

 in thickness. The plant is quite easily recognized by the stout and 

 black hairy stem, and the dark brown or blackish, irregular and 

 sometimes lateral cap, with the margin incurved. It grows on wood, 

 logs, stumps, etc., during late summer and autumn. 



The pileus is convex, expanded, sometimes somewhat depressed, 



Figure 161. Paxillus atro-tomentosus, form hirsutus. Cap and stem 

 brownish or blackish (natural size, small specimens, they are often 

 larger). Copyright. 



lateral, irregular, or sometimes with the stem nearly in the center, 

 brownish or blackish, dry, sometimes with a brownish or blackish 

 tomentum on the surface. The margin is inrolled and later incurved. 

 The flesh is white, and the plant is tough. The gills are adnate, often" 

 decurrent on the stem, and easily separable from the pileus, forked 

 at the base and sometimes reticulate, forming pores. Spores yellow- 

 ish, oval, 4-6 X 3-4 yw. Stevenson says that the gills do not form 

 pores like those of P. involutus, but Fig. 161 (No. 3362 C. U. her- 

 barium) from plants collected at Ithaca, shows them well. There is, 



