LEUCOSPORI. l6l 



in.) long, scarcely 2 mm. (i lin.) thick, horny, rigid, fistulose, 

 smooth, date-brown, attenuated and rooted, tawny-strigose at the 

 base, paler at the apex. Gills deeply decurrent, arcuate, some- 

 what crowded, remarkably connected by veins, yellow, not pruinose, 

 varying veined. 



Growing in a dense band, commonly caespitose, and gladdening the recesses 

 of the woods with its shining colours. There are two remarkable varieties, 

 gregarious on the ground : B. badipus, the longer stem stuffed, somewhat 

 ribrillose, with a small villous-strigose tawny bulb at the base ; C. papillata, 

 pileus acutely conical, papillate, at length depressed round the papilla. A 

 more remarkable variety is myriadea Kalchbr. in litt., half the size of the 

 common form, very densely csespitose, covering over the trunks of pine like a 

 dense fleece, pale tawny, with pallid brick-flesh-coloured gills. 



In fir woods, on trunks, &c. Frequent. Aug.-Sept. 



The dark stem and tawny pubescence at the base readily distinguish the 

 species. M.J.B. Spores ellipsoid, 6-8x3-4 mk. C.B.P. ; 7x3 mk. W.P. ; 

 6-9 x 3-4 mk. B. Nzmzcampana, a bell. Diminutive. Shaped like a little 

 bell. Batsch, Fr. Monogr. \. p. 189. Hym. Eur. p. 162. Berk. Out. p. 133. 

 C. Hbk. n. 223. Illust. PL 273. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 202. Sow. t. 163. 

 Schceff. t. 230. Var. badipus C. Illust. PL 273. 



349. A. pictus Fr. Pileus about 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.), but higher 

 than broad, fuscous, the umbilicate disc commonly light yellow, 

 the perpendicular sides darkly striate, the margin, which is entire, 

 paler, membranaceous, campanulato- hood- shaped, almost oval. 

 Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, almost filiform, horny, rigid, 

 stuffed, tense and straight, smooth, date-brown, inserted at the 

 base, which is in the form of a little fuscous-tawny, radiating 

 membrane^ slightly thickened and paler at the apex. Gills adnate, 

 somewhat decurrent, very broad on account of the singular form 

 of the pileus, higher than broad, distinct, distant, somewhat 

 convex, whitish, turning light yellow. 



Among the most distinct species. The gills are much broader than long. 

 Varying like A. campanella : B. smaller, the obsolete umbilicus of the same 

 colour, stem thinner and without the radical membrane. Batsch f. 86. C. 

 pileus conical, papillate. Compare A. phiala Fl. Dan. t. 1730. 



In mixed wood. Killin, 1876, &c. Sept. 



Name pingo, to paint, adorn. From the various colours. Fr. Monogr. i. 

 p. 189. Hym. Eur. p. 163. Icon. t. 77. /. 4. B. &= Br. n. 1647. -S. Mycol. 

 Scot. n. 203. C. Illust. PL 273. 



350. A. camptophyllus Berk. Pileus 12 mm. (% in.) broad, 

 brown with a grey margin, convexo-plane, deeply striate, smooth, 

 dry. Stem 5 cent. (2 in.) or more long, not 2 mm. (i lin.) thick, 

 minutely fistulose, somewhat flexuous, somewhat rigid, minutely 

 pubescent, radiato-strigcse at the base, at first yellow, when full 



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