FLAMMULA. 137 



not crowded, pale yellowish then ferruginous; stem 2-4 in. 

 long, 3-5 lines broad, rather flexuous, fibrillose, pale yellow, 

 base more or less ferruginous, hollow ; veil evident, inter- 

 woven, appendiculate, white, rarely forming an indistinct 

 ring ; spores broadly elliptical, 6-8 x 5 /a. 



Agaricus flavidus, Schaeffer, t. 35 ; Fries, Hym. Eur., 

 p. 248; Cke., Hdbk., p, 170; Cke., Illustr., pi. 444. 



On trunks. Caespitose. 



Stem sometimes thickened towards the base, at other 

 times towards the apex. Pileus yellow, almost regular in 

 form ; gills at first whitish, soon yellow ; spores, as in 

 Flammula alnicola, pure ferruginous. (Fries.) 



Flammula inaurata. W. G. Smith. 



Pileus §—1 in. across, fleshy, moist, smooth, furnished with 

 a distinct veil ; gills 2 lines or more broad, adnate, with a 

 decurrent tooth, pale yellowish clay-colour; stem about^l in. 

 long, 2 lines thick, incurved, partly hollow, clothed with 

 innate scales. 



Agaricus (Flammula) inauratus, W, G. Smith, Journ. Bot., 

 vol. ii. n. ser. (1873), p. 336; Cke., Hdbk., p. 170; Cke., 

 Illustr., tab. 477. 



On willows. 



Taste mild, insipid. Whole plant sulphury-yellow. Allied 

 to F. flavida and F. Junonia. (W. G. S.) 



Flammula connisans. Fr. 



Pileus 1-3 in. across, flesh thin, equal, convex then ex- 

 panded, obtuse or sometimes slightly umbilicate, naked, 

 glabrous, moist, slightly viscid, pale yellow tinged with 

 tawny, especially in the centre ; gills adnate, with a decur- 

 rent tooth, closely crowded, thin, 2 lines broad, pallid then 

 brownish clay-colour; stem 2-3 in. high, 2-3 lines thick, 

 often flattened and twisted, equal or attenuated downwards, 

 silky-fibrillose, yellowish-white, with white down at the 

 base, hollow ; veil appendiculate ; spores elliptical, dingy 

 ferruginous, 8 x 4 /t. 



Agaricus (Flammula) connisans, 'Fri&s,'EiT^icr.,^. 187; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 170; Cke., Illustr., pi. 445? 



On willow trunks. 



Densely caespitose. With the habit of S. fascicularis 



