254 I'.RITISII FUNGI 



This species looks much more like a species of Fhwimula than of 

 Paxilhis. 



On trunks, worked wood, etc. 



P. paniioides. — Cap 2-3 in. across, dimidiate, oyster-shell-shaped 

 or fan-shaped, sessile, or extended behind into a short, stem-like 

 base, minutely pubescent or downy, then almost smooth, dingy 

 yellow ; gills decurrent, crowded, branched, crisped and rugulose, 

 yellow. 



\'ery variable. Very distinct from the preceding species in the 

 cap being sessile, or slightly extended behind. At first sessile and 

 resupinate, soon shell-shaped, dimidiate and obovate, at length 

 broadly expanded, wavy and lobed ; often imbricated. 



On pine and other wood, sawdust, etc. 



var. fagi. — Gregarious, crisped, palhd above, orange beneath ; 

 gills crisped, orange. 



On a beech stump. 



ACETABULARIA 



Cap regular ; gills free ; stem central ; universal veil present, 

 remaining as a small \'olva at the base of the stem. vSpores tawny 

 or brown. 



A. acetahulosa. — Cap about i in. across, convex, tan-colour, edge 

 grooved, flesh thin ; gills free but close to the stem, distant, ij lines 

 broad, pale brown ; stem about 2 in. long, equal, white, hollow, 

 the base surrounded by a small white volva. 



The discoverer of this fungus states : " This is very like a poor 

 specimen of Agariciis congregatus {=Coprinus micacens), but the 

 pileus is more plaited. The lamellae are remarkably glandular on 

 their sides ; and instead of a bare base or foot it stands in a little 

 socket-like volva." 



On the ground, a little above high-water mark. 



Pholiota 



Cap regular, more or less fleshy ; gills adnate or adnexed ; stem 

 central, with a distinct ring ; spores rusty. 



The only genus with brown spores having a distinct, mem- 

 branaceous ring on the stem. 



I. Growing on the ground. "Rarely tufted. 



P. aurea. — Cap 4-6 in. across, rather velvety, then torn into 

 minute squamules, bright tawny yellow ; gills pale orange-rusty ; 

 stem 5-8 in. long, stout, pale, covered with rusty scurf below the 

 large spreading ring. 



On the ground. Sometimes in tufts of two to four. 



P. caperata. — Cap 3-5 in. across, more or less bright yellow, 

 with superficial white flecks ; gills tan-colour, edge serrate ; stem 

 4-6 in. long, white, squamulose up to the ring. 



In woods. Solitary or 2-3 together. 



