116 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



Gortinarius (PMegmacium) corruscans, Fries, Epicr., p. 271 ; 

 Clce., Hdbk.. p. 32 ; Cke., Illnstr., pi. 733. 



Under bushes, &c. 



Taste and smell none. Pileus regular, ocliraceous-yellow, 

 often spotted with tawny. 



Gortinarius (Phleg.) papulosus. Fr. 



Pilens 2i-3i in. across, fleshy, at first convex, obtuse, then 

 plane, at length depressed, disc usually gibboiis, glabrous, 

 viscid, even at the margin, honey-coloured tan, disc darker 

 ferruginous or brownish, the cuticle becoming broken vip 

 into minute, areolar, brownish granules when dry ; flesh 

 white, thick at the disc, margin thin ; gills adnato-deciirrent, 

 crowded, slightly joined behind, but separating from the 

 stem when old and connected by a spurious collar, 2-3 lines 

 broad, pallid, soon ochraceous, at length yellowish-cinnamon ; 

 stem solid, firm, entirely fleshy inside, equal or thickened 

 at the base, 3 in. long, i- in. or more thick, densely fibrillose, 

 apex naked, white ; veil inferior, white, very fugacious. 



Gortinarius (Phlegmaciuin) papulosus, Fries, Monogr.,ii. p. 33; 

 Cke., Illustr., pi. 718; Cke., Hdbk., p. 248. 



In pine woods, &c. 



Entirely white inside, by which the present is distinguished 

 from G. percomis and other allies. (Fries.) 



There is a form with a long flexnous hollow stem. 



Var. major, Fries, Monogr., ii. p. 33. 



Stem attenuated from the base, filamentous from the 

 inferior veil, apex cortinate, at length coloured like the gills ; 

 pileus glutinous, yellowish ferruginous, margin much paler, 

 disc truly granular; gills slightly sinuate. 



CKEPIDOTUS. Fr. (figs. 1-3. p. 3.) 



PileuB excentric, often resupinate or laterally attached ; 

 stem excentric, lateral, or entirely absent ; veil not evident ; 

 gills more or less deourrent or radiating from an excentric 

 point ; spores pale ferruginous or cinnamon-colour. 



Grepidotus, Fries, Syst. Myc, i. p. 272 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 189. 



Distinguished by the resupinate, sessile, or excentrically 

 stipitate pileus ; many of the species are minute. Care 

 must be taken not to confound the present genus with 



