104 OUTLINES OF BKITISH FUNGOLOGY. 



behind, slightly adnexed, broad, plane, crowded, at first 

 pallid, then dirty ferruginous. 



On trunks, birch, poplar. Bromley. 



553. A. (Pholiota) aurivellus, Batsch (p. 150) ; 3-5iu. 



554. A. (Pholiota) squarrosus, Mull. (p. 150); 3-5 in. 

 Epping Forest. 



Var. Miilleri, Fr. ; pileus obtuse, moist, pallid, with 

 darker adpressed scales ; gills becoming tawny-fuscous ; 

 stem equal ; ring entire. 



Epping Forest. 



Var. A. verruculosus, Lasch ; pileus compact, obtuse, 

 yellow, with crowded cinnamon scales and pajnlhc ; stem 

 villous-scaly. 



On trunks of maple. King's ClifFe. Epping Forest. 



555. A. (Pholiota) subsquarrosus, Fr. ; somewhat ca3S- 

 pitose ; pileus 2 in., brown-ferruginous, with darker ad- 

 pressed floccose scales, fleshy, convex, obtuse or gibbous, 

 viscid; stem stuffed or hollow, equal, yellow-ferruginous, 

 clothed with darker adpressed scales ; furnished with an 

 annular zone at apex, becoming yellow-ferruginous within ; 

 gills sinuate, emarginate, almost free, arcuate, crowded, at 

 first pale, then dingy yellow. 



On trunks and on the ground. On fir stump. Hereford. 



ft Gills yellow, then pure forriujinous or taiony, not 

 Jiygrophanous. 



556. A. (Pholiota) spectabilis, Fr. = A. aureus (p. 149) ; 

 casspitose; pileus 2-5 in., tawny or golden yellow, then 

 pale, shining, fleshy, compact, hemispherical, obtuse, dry, 

 torn into adpressed, innate, pilose squamules of same colour, 

 continued into veil at inflexed margin ; flesh thick, hard, 

 sulphur-yellow ; stem solid, hard, ventricose, base fusiform. 



