218 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



Hdbk., p. 143 ; Cke., lUustr., pi. 365 (called Ag. (PhoKota) 

 aegerita). 



On oak trunks, &c. 



Caespitose, very irregular, flesh white. Pileusat first 

 yellowish-white, more even, then rufo-fuscous. (rries.) 



** SquarrosL 

 ■f Gills not pure ferruginous. 



Pholiota comosa. Fr. 



Pileus 3-6 in. across, very fleshy, convex then slightly 

 expanded, obtuse, viscid, with scattered floccose, superficial, 

 adpressed, seceding, white scales, dingy tawny ; flesh firm, 

 whitish; gills slightly decurrent, quite entire, 3-5 lines 

 broad, white then brownish-tan ; stem 3-4 in, long, up to 

 f in. thick, rather bulbous at the base, rather coarsely 

 fibrillose below the floccose, appendiculate ring, smooth 

 above, whitish, solid, usually curved and ascending ; spores 

 elliptical, brownish-ferruginous, elliptical, 12 X 6 ;u. 



Agaricus (JPlioliotd) comosus, Fries, Epicr., p. 165; Kalch- 

 brenner. Icon. Hung., t. 13, f. 1 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 144 ; Cke., 

 lUustr., pi. 600. 



On trunks and stumps of beech, &c. 



Usually in small clusters. Odour faint. In Kalchbrenner's 

 figure, quoted above, there is a section given having the 

 pileus 7 in. across ; gills f in. broad at the base, rounded 

 behind and slightly adnexed ; stem about 1 in. thick. This 

 figure is quoted by Fries under the present species. 



Scarcely caespitose, yet several specimens are often joined 

 at the base ; very distinct from Pholiota squarrose, but very 

 similar to Sypholoma sublateritius, especially in the brownish- 

 ferruginous spores, a character by which it is easily known 

 from its neighbouring allies and which places it intermediate 

 between Pholiota and Stropharia. Inodorous ; stem solid, 

 when young very compact and hard, sub-bulbous, then 

 elongated, nearly equal, and I have also seen it hollow, fibril- 

 lose (not scaly), white ; long and slender compared with 

 neighbouring species, ring more or less curtain-like, floccose, 

 fairly persistent. Pileus fleshy, convex then expanded, 



