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549. A. (Pholiota) segerita, Fr. ; cfespitose ; pileus 

 tawuy, becoming pale white towai'ds margin, fleshy, convex 

 then plane, rivulose_, slightly wrinkled ; flesh white, stea«. 

 stuffed, equal, white-silky, fibrillose ; ring superior, 

 swollen ; gills adnate, decurrent with a small tooth, 

 crowded, pallid, then fuscous. 



On poplar trunks. On dead ash. King's Lynn. Odour 

 pleasant. 



550. A. (Pholiota) iTixurians, Fr. ; csespitose ; pileus 

 yellowish- white then rufous- fuscous, fleshy, convexo- 

 gibbous, very irregular, then flattened, unequal, silky then 

 squamulose ; flesh white ; stem stuffed, rigid, somewhat 

 squamulose, white then fuscous ; ring apical, torn, 

 fugacious ; gills adnexed then decurrent, crowded, grey 

 flesh-colour then fuscous. 



On oak and elm trunks. King's Lynn. 



** Squamosi. — Pileus scaly, not hygrophanoiis, gills changing 

 colour. 



f Gills pallid, becoming Juscous, olivaceous, clay-coloured. 



55L A. (Pholiota) comosus, Fr. (p. 150) ; 3 in. Epping 

 Forest. 



552. A. (Pholiota) heteroclitus, Fr. ; pileus 2-3 in. 

 whitish or yellow, then tawny, compact and hard when 

 young, generally exceutric, hemispherical then flattened, 

 obtuse, sometimes even, commonly broken up into broad 

 scattered, innate, adpressed, spot-like, dark scales, sometimes 

 viscid ; flesh thick, firm, pallid ; stem thickened-bulbous, 

 bluntly rooting, thick, solid, hard, fibrillose, white, veiled at 

 apex, internally rhubarb-colour at base ; gills rounded 



