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scarcely any trace upon the stem. Taste very bitter and 

 naTiseons. (Berk.) 



Smell and taste bitter, flesh yellow, gills rather deli- 

 quescent, sulphur-colour, then greenish. Forming large, 

 densely crowded tufts, stems very numerous, hollow, thin, 

 incurved or flexuous, fibrillose, length very variable, pileus 

 often thin, convex then expanded, subumbonate or obtuse, 

 even, glabrous, dry, yellow, disc usually darker; gills 

 adnate, very much crowded, linear, more or less dingy green. 

 (Fries.) 



Tufted, pileus 1-2 in. broad, plano-convex, somewhat 

 umbonate, glabrous, extremely thin at the margin, of a 

 yellowish, reddish-buff, or brownish-orange colour. Lamellae 

 numerous, mostly eight in a series, rather narrow, adnate, 

 yellovrish at first, afterwards greenish and mottled with the 

 sporidia. Stipes slender, cylindrical, equal, fixm, hollow, of 

 a yellow colour, 2-9 in. in length, and 2—3 lines in thickness. 

 Veil a delicate curtain, becoming blackish, but mostly so 

 evanescent as to leave only a stain upon the stipes. Taste 

 intensely bitter. 



One of the common Agarics, abounding at the base of old 

 trees, and gate-posts in a state of decay, and similar situa- 

 tions. The dense clusters it forms are frequently composed 

 of several hundred plants, and the stems, which accommodate 

 themselves in length and direction to their situation, are so 

 crowded and compressed at their base as to appear more or 

 less united in bundles, whence the origin of the specific 

 name. In general habit this species resembles A. velutipes, 

 a plant confined to the same kind of station ; and still more 

 nearly A. lateritius (= suhlateritius of this work), a very 

 distinct species, to which A. jpowposus of Bolton must be 

 referred. (Grrev.) 



Hypholoma elaeodes. Fr. 



PHeus %-H in. across, convex, then almost plane, sub- 

 umbonate, dry, glabrous, even, brick-red, flesh yellow; 

 giUs adnate, crowded, thin, green, then pure olive; stem 

 2-4 in. long, 2 lines thick, curved, or flexuous, equal, fibril- 

 lose, more or less ferruginous, stufied then hollow. 



Agaricus (Hypholoma) elaeodes, Fries, Epicr., p. 222 ; Hym. 

 Eur., p. 291. 



