130 OUTLINES OF BltlTISII FUNGOLOGY. 



ginous, yellow-tawny within, thickened and villous at base ; 

 gills obtusely adnate, sometimes rounded, separating, plane, 

 crowded, golden, then tawny. 



On larch trunks. On fir, Mattishall. Taste sweet, 

 like liquorice. 



673. A. (Plammula) picreus, Fr. ; c?espitose ; pileus 

 1 in., rufous or bay-brown-cinnamon, then pale and tawny, 

 slightly fleshy, campanulate, then convex, obtuse, regular, 

 even, smooth, moist ; flesh thin, same colour as pileus, 

 stem fistulose, slightly attenuated upwards, tense, straight, 

 umber, white-pulverulent ; gills ascending, crowded, narrow, 

 yellow, then ferruginous, adnate or decurrent, separating. 



On old deal boards and pine stumps. Rare. 



V. Sericelli. — Furnished v:ith a cortina, pileus sUglitlij silky, 

 dry, or at first viscid. 



074. A. (Flammula) helomorphus, F/\ ; pileus ^-f in., 

 white, fleshy, convexo-plane, gibbous or umbonate, viscid, 

 then adpressedly fibrilloso-even, the thin unequal margin 

 inflexed, naked ; stem solid, equal, base incurved, even, 

 smooth, whitish ; gills plano-decurrent, very crowded, 

 whitish-clay-colour. 



In fir woods. Mossburnford. 



675. A. (Flammula) scambus, Fr. (p. 157) ; i-l in. 



(570. A. (Flammula) flliceus, Cke. ; pileus fleshy, con- 

 vexo-plane, minutely squamuloso-fibrillose ; stem stuffed, 

 equal, slender ; veil adhering to stem and margin of piieus 

 in reddish fugacious threads ; gills crowded, adnate, sulphur- 

 yellow, at length tawny-cinnamon. 



On old tree-fern stems. 



