Hypholoma AGARIC ACE^: !! 



G. crowded, light yellow, sometimes cinereous. Flesh white, 

 becoming light yellow, sienna in St. 



Taste acrid ; odour strong, acid. Stumps, fir, fallen firs, on the ground ; 

 frequent. Aug.-Dec. 3! x 6 x | in. Sometimes wholly bright yellow ; 

 often sterile. One form of this is Clitocybe Sadleri Sacc. 



825. H. elseodes Gill, (from the olive colour of the gills ; Gr. elaios, 



olive, eidoS) appearance) a b c. 



P. plane, subumbonate, tan or buff. St, fibrillose, colour as P., 

 becoming ferruginous. G. crowded, thin, white to olivaceous 

 Flesh pale buff. 



Taste bitter ; odour sour. Stumps, on the ground. Oct. 2| X 2$ X J in. 

 Sometimes wholly ivory-whitish. Sometimes regarded as a form of 826. 



826. H. faseieulare Quel. (from the fasciculate habit) a b c. 



P. flat, subobtuse, sulphur-yellow; mid. sienna. St. hollow, 

 fibrillose, sulphur above, sienna below or wholly sulphur-yellow, 

 often fibrilloso-annulate. G. crowded, sulphur to green. Flesh 

 sulphur. 



Gregarious, densely coespitose. Probably poisonous. Taste and odour acrid, 

 nauseous, bitter, sickening. Stumps, on the ground ; very common. 

 April-Dec. 2| X 4$ X \ in. There are many varieties. Recorded from 

 Glyncorrwg collieries with stems 4 feet long. 



827. H. instratum Mass, (from the naked, uncovered pileus; 



instratuS) uncovered) a. 

 P. convex, broadly umbonate, rugose, rich dark-brown. St. hollow, 



smooth and white above, fibrillose and pale brown below. G. 



adnato-ascending, brown to purple-brown, edge paler. Flesh 



pale sienna-brownish. 

 Stumps. Autumn, if X 2 x -fg in. 



828. H. dispersum Quel. (from the scattered habit of growth; 



dispergo, to scatter) b. 



P. expanded, viscid, obtuse, tawny-yellowish to purplish-umber. 

 St. fistulose, sometimes rooting, silky-fibrillose, faintly ferru- 

 ginous above, rich fuscous-brown below. G. distant, thick, 

 brownish flesh-colour or shaded olive, with a white edge. 

 Flesh pale yellow-tawny. 



Woods, pine, dry to marshy places, on the ground, on sawdust. April-Nov. 

 J f * 4i x & in- Variable in colour and habit. 



b. Viscida. 



829. H. incomptum Mass, (from its simple, unadorned appearance ; 



incomptus, rough, without ornament) a. 



P. expanded, broadly gibbous, even, deep bay-brown, or orange- 

 tawny. St. hollow, equal, pale above, dark ferruginous below, 

 brown-fibrillose and yellow tomentose. G. adnato-rounded, 

 crowded, deep olive, purple-clouded. 



Stumps. Autumn. 4 X Z\ X in. 



