26o BRITISH FUNGI 



serrulate ; stem i-i.\ in. long, more or less bulbous, rooting, 

 yellowish, ring soon disappearing. 



On trunks, chiefly birch. 



P. curvipoda. — Cap 1-2 in. across, with minute adpressed 

 squamules, tawny yellow ; gills broadly adnate, yellowish, then 

 tawny ; stem 1-2 in. long, incurved, fibrillose, yellow, ring floccose. 



On trunks. Gregarious or somewhat clustered. 



P. cruentata. — Cap about 2 in. across, dry, yellow, breaking up 

 into darker scales, edge inturned ; gills yellow, then tan-colour ; 

 stem i|-2 in. long, curved, colour of the cap, narrowed at the base 

 and rooting, and there dark red-brown, flesh pale yellow, changing 

 to cinnabar-colour, ring fibrillose. 



Known by the dark-coloured rooting base of stem, and the cinna- 

 bar-coloured flesh. 



On oak stumps, also on burnt ground. 



P. pcixillits. — Cap 3-5 in. across, often rather wavy, dark cinna- 

 mon-colour, paler when dry ; gills rather decurrent, crowded, 

 broad, cinnamon ; stem 4-6 in. long, smooth, even, cinnamon, 

 ring narrow, spreading. 



Entirely cinnamon when moist. 



On trunks. Solitary. 



P. conjragosa.- — Cap i-ii in. across, soon plane, edge striate, 

 rufous cinnamon, then tawny ; gills crowded, reddish brown ; 

 stem about 2 in. long, rufous, fibrillosely peronate up to the ring. 



Cap at first with whitish floccose squamules. 



On trunks. Somewhat tufted, fragile. 



P. mntahilis. — Cap variable, 1-4 in. across, soon expanded and 

 usually ol)tusely umbonate, smooth, deep cinnamon-colour, be- 

 coming pale ; gills adnato-decurrent, crowded, pallid, then cinna- 

 mon-colour ; stem i|-4 in. long, equal, with spreading scales up to 

 the ring, incurved, pale above, brownish below\ 



On and around stumps, etc. Densely tufted. 



P. marginata. — Cap about i in. across, soon expanded, smooth, 

 edge striate, honey-colour, then pale tan ; gills crowded, watery 

 cinnamon ; stem i|-2 in. long, pale tan, not scaly, ring disappearing. 



Close to P. mutahilis, but- smaller and not densely tufted, and 

 cap honey-colour, then paler. 



On trunks, pine needles, etc. 



P. unicolor. — Cap about | in. across, slightly umbonate, smooth, 

 bay, ochraceous when dry ; gills almost triangular, ochraceous 

 cinnamon ; stem i-i| in. long, smooth, colour of the cap, ring 

 entire. 



On trunks and branches. Gregarious or somewhat tufted. 



P. sororia. — Cap convex, then expanded, shghtly striate and 

 squamulose, tawny cinnamon, i-ii in. across ; gills sinuato-adnate. 



