138 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



not pulverulent, but covered with the copious ferruginous 

 spores. Stem whitish-yellow, not becoming ferruginous, 

 not rooting, equal or attenuated at the base. Pileus yellow^ 

 ish clay-colour, rather viscid. (Fries.) 



Cooke's figure differs in the very bright gills and stem 

 ferruginous below. 



Plammula inopoda. Pr. 



Pileus 1-4 in. across, convex then becoming almost plane, 

 obtuse, even, smooth, slightly viscid when moist, honej- 

 coloured tan, or with a reddish tinge, paler round the margin, 

 becoming pale ; flesh thin, coloured like the pileus, white 

 when dry ; gills adnate, thin, crowded, about 2 lines broad, 

 yellowish-white, sometimes with a tinge of green ; stem 3-& 

 long, 1-3 lines thick, flexuous, equal, rooting, adpressedly 

 fibrillose, pale above, reddish-brown below, hollow; spores 

 broadly elliptical, ferruginous-brown, 10 x 6 ^u.. 



Agaricus {Flammnla) inopus. Pries, Syst. Myc, i. p. 251 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 171 ; Cke., lUustr., pi. 446. 



On pine trunks. 



Caespitose or gregarious; pileus rather viscid in moist 

 weather, honey-clay-colour, becoming pale, margin paler ; 

 flesh similarly coloured, white when dry. Gills sometimes 

 with a pallid greenish tinge, but dry ; spores scanty, dingj^ 

 ferruginous. (Pries.) 



Distinguished by the long, tapering, rooting base of the 

 stem. 



Flammula apicrea. Fr. 



Pileus l|-3 in. across, convex then expanded and almost 

 plane, flesh thin, yellow, even, glabrous, moist, dingy orange,, 

 disc darker, margin often splitting ; gills adnate, crowded, 

 thin, 2 lines broad, shining ferruginous ; stem 2-3 in. long, 

 2-3 lines thick, equal, not rooting, pallid, fibrillose, ferrugi- 

 nous downwards as are also the fibrils, hollow, flesh yellow j 

 spores ferruginous, elliptical, 7 X 3 /u.. 



Agaricus (^Flammula) apicrea. Fries, Epicr., p. 188 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 171 ; Cke., lUustr., pi. 436. 



On rotten trunks. Eather caespitose. 



Very similar to Flammula al/nicola, but the colour of the 

 gills almost unchangeable, flesh hygrophanous, pileus clay- 

 colour, disc fulvous, becoming pale, smell sweet. (Pries.) 



