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lose, of the same colour as the pileus and flesh. Gills adnate, 

 very crowded, linear, somewhat deliquescent, sulphur-yellow then 

 becoming green. 



It is very easily distinguished from the preceding species by its bitter odour 

 and taste, light-yellow flesh, and somewhat deliquescent, sulphur-yellow then 

 green gills. It forms also more crowded clusters. There are many remark- 

 able varieties ; one robnstior (more robust), stem thickened at the base, another 

 nana (dwarf), both on the ground. 



On old stumps and the ground. Extremely common. April- 

 Dec. 



Pileus about 5 cent. (2 in.) broad ; stem 5-22.5 cent. (2-9 in.) long, 4 mm. 

 (2 lin.) thick, but very variable in the same cluster. With portions of the veil 

 often adhering to the margin of the pileus. Poisonous. Spores sphaeroid- 

 ellipsoid 6-7x4 mk. K. ; 6x4 mk. W.G.S. Name fasciculus, a small 

 bundle. Caespitose. Huds.Fr. Monogr. i. /. 422. Hym. Eur. p. 291. 

 Berk. Out. p. 169. t. n./ i. C. Hbk. n. 405. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 381. Bolt, 

 t. 29. Sow. t. 285. Grev. t. 329. Hussey ii. /. 15. Fl. Dan. t. 2075. 

 Krombh. t. 44. f. 4-5. 



714. A. dispersus Fr. Pileus 2.5-4 cent. (i-iX in -) broad, 

 tawny-honey-colour, not hygrophanous, Wz^////j>/foy>$y, campanulate 

 then convex, at length expanded, even, superficially silky round 

 the margin with the veil, or squamulose, otherwise even and 

 smooth ; flesh thin, a little paler than the pileus. Stem 5 cent. 

 (2 in.) or a little more long, 4 mm. (2 lin.) thick, fistulose, equal, 

 tense and straight, \.oug\\,fibrilloso-silky, somewhat ferruginous, 

 becoming fuscous at the base, pale at the apex. Gills adnate, 

 thin, ventricose, broad (6-8 mm., 3-4 lin.), crowded, at first pallid- 

 straw-colour, at length clouded, obsoletely green. 



Gills broader than in A.fascicularis, &c. Solitary, scarcely ever caespitose. 

 On pine-stumps and the ground. Frequent. April-Nov. 



Name dispergo, to scatter. From its habit of growth. Fr. Monogr. \. p. 

 422. Hym. Eiir. p. 292. Icon. t. 133. /. 3. B. & Br. n. 794. Berk. Out. p. 

 169. C. Hbk. . 406. Illust. PL 586. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 382. Saund. & 

 Sm. t. 2t\.f. 1-3, stem much elongated. 



** VISCIDI. Pileus naked, viscous. 

 No British species. 



*** VELUTINI. Pileus silky or streaked with innate fibrils. 



715. A. storea Fr. Pileus almost 7.5 cent. (3 in.) broad, pale 

 fuscous then dingy isabelline, fleshy, convex, broadly umbonate, 

 somewhat depressed round the umbo, the whole surface broken 

 up into longitudinally adnate (rarely squarrose) fibrils. Cortina 

 a prolongation of the fibrils of the pileus, appendiculate at the 

 margin ; flesh white, compact, but not thick. Stem 10-12.5 cent. 



