PRATELLI. 321 



The colour is persistently tawny or fiery-tawny. Caespitose, slightly firm, Hypholoma. 

 very striking. 



About roots of trees, beech, &c. King's Lynn. Glamis. Aug.- 

 Oct. 



Spores pip-shaped, 8x5 mk. C.B.P. ; 14-19 mk. M.J.B. Name nvp, 

 fire ; 9pC, hair. From the fiery-coloured fibrils. Holmsk. Ot. ii. /. 35. Fr. 

 Monogr, i. p. 424. Hym. Eur. p. 293. 5. My col. Scot. S^^pp. Scot. Nat. 1885, 

 p. 25. A. lachrymabundus Bull. t. 525. f. 3. Krombh. t. 42. f. 12-16. 



718. A. velutinus Pers. Pileus 5-10 cent. (2-4 in.) broad, lurid 

 when fresh, becoming tawny when half dry, clay-isabelline when 

 dry, hygrophanous, slightly fleshy, campanulate then expanded, 

 at length obtusely umbonate, not scaly, but when young wholly 

 adpressedly tomentose with fibrils, at length becoming smooth 

 and even ; flesh very thin, of the same colour, fragile. Stem 

 when large 10-12.5 cent. (4-5 in.) long, 12 mm. (% in.) and more 

 thick, when smaller 5 cent. (2 in.) long, 4 mm. (2 lin.) thick, hol- 

 low, z.Q^\3\,fibrillo so-silky, tomentose from the summit to the veil, 

 dingy-clay-colour. Veil adhering chiefly to the margin of the 

 pileus, woolly, at first white, then becoming black. Gills adfixed, 

 but easily separating (almost free), broad (when larger 8-10 mm., 

 4-5 lin. broad), not much crowded, at first inclining to fuscous, 

 with the edge white, then date-brown-fuscous, dotted-black. 



Stature various, often very large. Somewhat caespitose, somewhat fragile. 

 On old stumps. Common. July-Oct. 



Spores 6x 8 mk. W.G.S. Name vellus, fleece. Velvety. Pers. Syn. p. 

 409. Fr. Monogr, i. p. 424. Hym. Eur. p. 293. Berk. Out. p. 170. t. n. 

 /. 2. C. Hbk. n. 408, partly. S. My col. Scot. n. 385. Seer. n. 399. Inzeng. 

 t. j.f. 2. A. lachrymabundus Sow. t. 41. Abnormal variations Schce/. t. 34. 

 Paul. t. 55.7. i. 



Var. leiocephalus B. & Br. Pileus hygrophanous, rugged, 

 smooth except at the margin, where it is fibrillose, pallid as is the 

 stem, whose apex is farinose. 



Densely csespitose ; much smaller than the common form, but apparently a 

 mere variety, though a very striking one from its smooth but very rugged disc. 

 On old stumps. Sept. Name Aeios, smooth ; Ke(/xxA^, head. From its smooth 

 pileus. B. & Br. n. 1009*. 



**** FLOCCULOSI. Scales fioccose, superficial, separating. 



719. A. cascus Fr. Pileus 4-7.5 cent. (iX~3 in -) broad, livid- 

 grey, tan-whitish when dry, somewhat fleshy, oval then expanded, 

 obtuse, smooth, when dry soft and slightly wrinkled, persistently 

 even on the disc. Stem 7.5-10 cent. (3-4 in.) long, 4-6 mm. (2- 

 3 lin.) thick, hollow, equal, fibrillose, white, delicately white-pul- 



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