MASSEE AND CROSSLAND : FUNGUS FLORA OF YORKSHIRE. IO3 



660. Hypholoma lacpymabundum (Bull, non Fries). 

 Not uncommon among grass on moist banks, etc., and 



often recorded under H. velutinum. Has also been found in 

 a warehouse yard, Hx. (Fl. Hx.). 



A considerable amount of confusion exists in this country 

 respecting the present fungus, which of late years has passed 

 as Hypholoma velutinum. It is, however, correctly called 

 Agaricus lacrymabmidus Bull, by Berkeley. 



The following shows how the confusion arose. The fungus 

 was first of all called Ag. lacrymahundus by Bulliard, and 

 •excellently figured on pi. 194, Hist, des Champgn., Paris, 

 1 79 1. At a later date Persoon renamed the same fungus 

 Ag. velutinus, preferring as a specific name the character 

 presented by the pileus to that chosen by Bulliard from the 

 weeping gills, Persoon quotes Bulliard's figure. Sowerby 

 followed with an excellent figure (Tab. 41) and uses Persoon's 

 name, and also quotes Bulliard's figure. Finally, Fries 

 xetains Persoon's name of velutinus for Bulliard's lac/ymabundus. 



661. Hypholoma cotoneum Quelet. 

 N.E. — Raincliff Wood, Scarborough. 



S.W.— Huddersfield (F.F., 1895). Goitstock. Elland Park 

 Wood, Hx., on decaying stump (Fl. Hx.). 



Fries having adopted the name velutinus for Bulliard's 

 .lacrymahundus considered the last specific name free, and used 

 it for a totally different species of Hypholoma, which is beauti- 

 fully figured in Fries' Icones, Tab. 134. The fact that the 

 •same fungus had been previously called Ag. {Hypholoma) 

 .cotoneus by Quelet had been overlooked by Fries. The same 

 fungus is figured as Ag. [Hypholoma) storea var. caespitosa by 

 ■Cooke (Illustr., pi. 543). 



Finally, Hypholoma hypoxanthuni Phil. & Plowright is 

 nothing more than H. cotoneum Quelet, with yellow or fiery 

 orange mycelium at the base of the stem. The two are 

 similar in every other respect, and both grow around beech 

 stumps. The uncertainty as to the occurrence of Oozonium, 

 or orange mycelium in species where it is sometimes met with 



