HYPHOLOMA. 389 



into minute ratter adpressed sqnamules, flesh and veil 

 tawny ; stem 3-4 in. long, 3-6 lines thick, equal, fibrillose 

 or with squarrose squamnles, becoming tawny, hollow ; gills 

 adnate, pallid then brownish, 2—3 lines broad; spores 

 elliptical, 11 x 6 /*. 



Agaricus pyrotrichus, Holmskiold, Ot. ii. t. 35; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 205 ; Cke., lUnstr., pi. 564. 



On the ground near trunks, stumps, &c. Caespitose. 

 Very showy, pileus often bright orange-tawny, -veil fringing 

 the margin, w^hich is a little incurved. Stem fibrous, soft, 

 often with squarrose squamules. 



Tufted, rather firm. Stem hollow, fibrous, soft, 2—3 in. 

 long, 2—3 lines thick, equal, or very slightly thickened at 

 the base, fibrillose, commonly squarrosely squamulose, 

 becoming tawny. Veil conspicuously appendiculate, tawny. 

 Pileus rather fleshy, at first hemispherical, obtuse, then 

 expanded, 3 in. broad, densely covered with tawny fibrils 

 that are collected into minute subdepressed squamules, colour 

 hence tawny or orange-tawny, persistent. Flesh tawny. 

 Gills adnate, rather crowded, broad, at first pallid, margin 

 flocculose, white, then brownish, at length free. (Fries.) 



Far. egregius. Massee. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, convex, obtuse, ochraceous, with 

 numerous small, orange-red squamules, margin incurved, 

 fringed with the remains of the veil, flesh thick in the centre, 

 becoming very thin towards the margin ; stem 4-5 in. long, 

 f in. thick, hollow, pale ochraceous, below the ring covered 

 with spreading squarrose whitish scales, above the ring 

 smooth ; giUs crowded, broadly adnate, J in. broad, purple- 

 brown, margin white; spores hroadly elliptical or nearly 

 globose, apiculate, purple-brown, smooth, 6 x 4r-5 yu,, cystidia 

 none. 



In a fir wood, Scarborough, October, 1880. Fasciculate, 

 near to stumps. Differs from the typical form in the densely 

 shaggy stem. Flesh of pileus and stem pale ochraceous. 



**** FLOCCULOSI. 



Hypholoma cascns. Fries. 

 Pileus 1-2 J in. across, rather fleshy, oval then expanded. 



