128 rUNGUS-FLOEA. 



Subcaespitose, growing on conifers, but also commonly 

 on the ground amongst fallen twigs, &c., of pines. 



Y. Seeicelli. — Cortinate, cuticle of pileus silky, dry, or at 

 first viscid. 



* GYMNOTI. 



riammula gymnopodia. Bull. 



rerruginous-brown, pileus 2-3 in. across, flesh thin, 

 ■white, campanulato-convex, squamulose ; gills very decurrent, 

 arcuate, crowded, yellowish then ferruginous; stem 1J-2Z 

 in. long, i in. thick, almost smooth, often incurved, solid. 



Agaricus (Flammula) gymnopodius. Bull. t. 601, f. 1 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk,, p. 166 ; Cke., Ill'ustr., pi. 431. 



On the ground and on pine sawdust, &c. Often caespitose, 

 stem ascending, sometimes partly hollow with age ; pileus 

 ■sometimes rusty-yellow, especially towards the margin. A 

 very distinct species. 



riammula Aldridgei. Mass. 



Pileus 1-2 in. across, convex then infundibuliform with a 

 somewhat involute margin, dry, brick-red with a tinge of 

 orange, or altogether tawny-orange, minutely velvety ; gills 

 deeply decurrent, rather crowded, 1| line broad, lanceolate, 

 golden-j'ellow then ferruginous-orange ; stem 3-4 in. long, 

 by \-}j in. thick, equal, flexuous, smooth, coloured like the 

 pileus, smooth, with a white floccose mycelium at the base, 

 hollow ; spores elliptical, slightly apiculate at the base, 

 ferruginous-orange, 16 x 5 /x,. 



Agaricus (Flammula) Aldridgei, Mass., Grev., vol. xx. p. 25 

 (1891). 



On the ground in woods, amongst moss. Gregarious. A 

 very distinct and beautiful species, readily kno-rna by the 

 minutely velvety pileus and deeply decurrent gills. 



Flammula vinosa. Bull. 

 Pileus 5-1 J^ in. across, very fleshy, thick, white; convex 

 then expanded, at length often depressed, and flexuous at 

 the margin, dry, minutely flocculose, obscure rusty-cinnamon, 

 •usually with a tinge of purple; gills crowded, decurrent, 

 simple, narrow, yellowish then ferruginous ; spores elliptical, 



