l8o AGARIC ACE^E Hypholoma 



fibrilloso-annulate. Gills adnate or sinuate. Spores slate-purple. 



(Fig. 450 



The species grow on wood and have a caespitose habit. None 

 are edible, some are nauseous-bitter. 



Hypholoma agrees in structure with Tricholoma, Entoloma and 

 Hebeloma. Species 821844 



a. Fasciculares . Pileus tough, smooth, dry, except 821 and 828, 



brightly coloured, not hygrophanous. Gills adnate. 



821828 



b. Viscidce. Pileus naked, viscid. 829, 830 



c. Velutince. Pileus silky with innate fibrils or streaked. 



831834 



d. Floccufosce. Pileus with floccose superficial separating scales. 



835, 836 



e. Appendiculata. Pileus smooth, hygrophanous. 837 844 



a. Fasciculares. 



821. H. silaeeum Quel. (from its colour ; si/, yellow-ochre) a. 



P. subexpanded, obtuse, viscid, brown-ochreous ; marg. cracked, 



whitish. St. bulbous, fibrilloso-striate, shining, colour as P. 



G. purplish-brown or grey-olivaceous. 

 Solitary to caespitose. Taste mild ; odour mealy. Old pastures, under firs. 



Aug. -Nov. 2 X 3J X ^ in. Not unlike some forms of 822 ; intermediate 



forms occur. 



822. H. sublateritium Qudl. (from the colour of the pileus; sub, 



somewhat, later, a brick) a b c. 



P. convexo-plane, obtuse, tawny brick-red ; marg. paler, ap- 

 pendiculate with V., sometimes with sc. St. stuffed, attenuate 

 downwards, scaly-fibrillose, pale yellow above, ferruginous 

 below. G. sinuate, arcuate or decurrent, dull yellow-greenish 

 to pale slate-purple. Flesh sulphur-white. 



Caespitose to solitary, sometimes in rings near trees. Probably poisonous. 

 Taste usually bitter-nauseous. Forests, hedgerows, stumps, rails, old pine 

 wood, oak ; common. April-Dec. 3^ X 4 X in. Polymorphic, P. 

 sometimes 7 in. in diam. Var. Schaefferi Sacc. G. deeply decurrent. 

 Var. squamosum Sacc. P. brown-squamulose. 



823. H. eapnoides Quel. (from the smoky-tinted gills ; Gr. kapnos, 



smoke, eidos, appearance) a b c. 



P. subexpanded, obtuse, shining, pale ochreous with mid. sienna- 

 red, or wholly orange. St. hollow, silky, even, elastic, pale 

 ochreous, or whitish above and brownish below. G. sub- 

 crowded, arid, grey to fuscous-purple. 



Taste and odour mild. Woods, pine, pine-stumps ; uncommon. April-Dec. 

 2$ X $ X | in. 



824. H. epixanthum Que'l. (from the yellowish-brown colour Gr. 



epixanthns, yellowish-brown) a b c. 



P. expanded, obtuse, silky, apt to split ; marg. lobed, undulate. 

 St. hollow, floccoso-fibrillose, reddish-sienna, darker below. 



