132 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



Agaricus {Flammula) mixtus, Fries, Ed., i. p. 185 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 168 ; Cke., lUustr., pi. 474. 



On the ground, in pine woods more especially. 



Inodorous. Flesh rather firm, watery. Stem 1-3 in. long, 

 3-4 lines thick, slightly wavy and a little thickened at the 

 base. Pileus 1-2 in. broad, rufous tan, margin paler, 

 superficially resembling Sebeloma punctata, but the general 

 structure and habit is that of Flammula lenta, F. lu- 

 Iricus, &o. 



Flammula juncina. W. G. Smith. 



Pileus 1-1^ in. across, hemispherical, thin, rather ex- 

 panded, even, glabrous, sulphur-yellow with a rich brown 

 disc; gills decurrent, 2-3 lines broad, thin, sulphur-yellow 

 then 1 eddish-brown ; stem 4 in. long, 3 lines thick at the 

 apex, uniformly tapering downwards, clothed with a few 

 fibres, bright sulphur-yellow, base tawny, solid. 



Agaricus (^Flammula) juncinus, W. G. Smith, Journ. Bot. 

 (1873), p. 336; Cke., Hdbk., p. 168; Cke., lUustr., pi. 475. 



On old dead rushes in an old clay-pit. Taste nauseous 

 and disagreeable, somewhat bitter. (W. G. S.) 



Flammula gummosa. Lasch. 



PUeus 1-2^ in. across, campanulate, then becoming flattened, 

 obtuse or slightly depressed, viscid, with a separable pellicle, 

 even, sprinkled with superficial squamules, pale yellow or 

 often greenish, at length with a rustj' tinge, margin paler ; 

 flesh thick in the centre, thin at the margin, becoming 

 yellow ; gills adnate, crowded, narrow, yellowish- white then 

 cinnamon; stem 2-3 in. long, 3-4 lines thick, equal, rigid, 

 straight, or slightly incurved at the base, silky, fibrillose, 

 pale above, base rusty-red, stuffed, hollow when old. 



Agaricus {Flammula") gummosus, Lasch, Linnaea, 1827, No. 

 325 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 168 ; Ck., Ulustr., pi. 441. 



On and about old sturnps. Inodorous, not bitter. Pileus 

 conical then depressed, pale yellow or greenish, margin 

 paler, 1-2 in. broad. Flesh becoming yellow. (Fries.) 



Flammula spumosa. Fr. 

 Pileus 1-2 in. across, convex then plane, sometimes rather 

 urabonate, covered with a viscid, separable cuticle, naked 

 (i.e. without squamules or fibrils), pale jellow, disc darker 



