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Name after O. F. Mullen Fr. Monogr. \. p. 311. Hym. Eur. p. 221. Fl. Pholiota. 

 Dan. t. 831. Batschf. 114. Saund. 6- Sm. t. i8./. i. C. Illust. PL 471. 



* A. verruculosus Lasch. Pileus compact, obtuse, yellow, 

 with crowded cinnamon scales and papilla. Stem villous-scaly. 



Remarkable, perhaps to be regarded as a distinct species. On trunks of 

 maple. King's Cliffe. Name verruca, a wart. With small warts. Lasch 

 n - 353- B. & Br. n. 1939. 



508. A. subsquarrosus Fr. Pileus 5 cent. (2 in.) and more 

 broad, brown -ferruginous, with darker, addressed, floccose scales, 

 fleshy, convex, obtuse or gibbous, viscid. Stem 7.5 cent. (3 in.) 

 long, 8-10 mm. (4-5 lin.) thick, stuffed (often hollow when 

 old), equal, yellow-ferruginous, clothed with darker scales which 

 are adpressed, or spreading only at the apex, not squarrose, 

 furnished with an annular zone at the apex, becoming yellow- 

 ferruginous within. Gills deeply sinuate, emarginate, almost free, 

 arcuate, crowded, at first pale then dingy yellow. 



Spores ferruginous. The pileus is viscid, but not glutinous like that of A. 

 adiposus. It holds a doubtful place between A. aurivellus and A. squarrosus, 

 departing from both, however, in the gills being at the first yellow ; and from 

 A. squarrosus, to which it is more like, in the gills being emarginato-free, not 

 decurrent. Somewhat caespitose. Almost inodorous. 



On a fir-stump and on the ground. Herefordshire, &c. Sept. 



Name sub, and squarrosus, rough. Roughish. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 298. 

 Hym. Eur. p. 221. Icon. t. 103. S. Mycol. Scot. Supp. Scot. Nat. 1882, p. 

 215. B. & Br. n. 1862. 



ft Gills yellow then pure ferruginous or tawny. 



509. A. spectabilis Fr. Pileus 5-12.5 cent. (2-5 in.) broad, 

 tawny or golden-yellow then becoming pale, fleshy, compact, 

 hemispherical, obtuse, dry, torn into adpressed, innate, pilose 

 squamules of the same colour, continued into the veil at the in- 

 flexed margin ; flesh thick, hard, stdphur-yellow. Stem 7.5 cent. 

 (3 in.) and more long, 2.5 cent, (i in.) thick, solid, hard, more or 

 less ventricose and extended into a fusiform root, sheathed with the 

 veil; sometimes smooth, shining, sometimes squamulose, sulphur- 

 yellow, mealy above the inferior, spreading, persistent, even ring. 

 Gills adnate* most frequently with a small decurrent tooth, very 

 crowded, narrow ', at the first pure yellow, at length ferruginous. 



More or less densely caespitose, very compact, shining as if varnished in dry 

 weather, although it is by no means viscous. Flesh with a bitter-aromatic 

 taste. A species remote from all others, analogous with A. aureus, but per- 

 haps most nearly allied to A. radicosus. 



On oak-stumps. Frequent. Aug.-Nov. 



