224 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



adnate, slightly rounded, broad, very entire, pale yellow tlien 

 ferruginous. (Fries.) 



Pholiota lucifer. Lascli. 



Pileus 1-2^ in. across, fleshy, convex then almost plane, 

 becoming nmbonate, viscid, covered at first -with darker, 

 adpressed scales which soon disappear, yellow; gills adfixed, 

 narrow, crenulate, almost golden yellow, then ferruginous ; 

 stem 1-2 in. long, equal, rather squamulose, yellowish, base 

 ferruginous, stuffed ; ring distant. 



Agaricm lucifer, Lasch, n. 356 ; Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 222 ; 

 Krombh., t. 3, f. 2. 



On trunks, branches, straw, &c. 



Small (2 in. across), much more slender than Pholiota 

 ^diposa, from which the present is quite distinct. 



Pileus yellow, becoming, along with the stem, at length 

 smooth ; stem ferruginous without and within, fibrillose. I 

 ■once found in a pine wood an allied form; subterrestrial, 

 stem hollow, gills emarginate. (Fries.) 



Pholiota flammans. Fr. 



Pileus 1-2 in. across, fleshy, convexo-plane, slightly 

 timbonate, dry, tawny-yellow, with scattered, 'minute, pale 

 yellow squamules ; gills rather rounded or sinuate, adnexed, 

 crowded, margin entire, yellow then tawny ; stem about 

 3-2 J in. long, 3 lines thick, equal, rather flexuous, with 

 squarrose squamules up to the superior ring, yellow, stuffed 

 then hollow ; spores elliptical, ferruginous, 8x4/*. 



Agaricus (Pholiota) flammans, Fries, Syst. Myc, i. p. 244 ; 

 ■Cke., Hdbk., p. 146; Cke., Illustr., pi. 368 (the pale 

 jsquamules on the pileus omitted). 



On pine trunks and amongst pine leaves. 



Subcaespitose. Very elegant. Known by the pale yellow 

 ■squamules on Ihe tawny yellow pileus, and the scaly stem. 



Stem stuffed then hollow, 3 in. long, 2-3 lines thick, equal, 

 often flexuous, furnished with deep yellow, crowded, squar- 

 rose squamules. Eing membranaceous, entire, near to the ■ 

 pileus, yellow. Pileus fleshy, convex then plane, subum- 

 bonate, 2-4 in. broad, absolutely dry, tawny-yellow, with 

 «eattered, superficial, squarrose, sulphur-oolourod squamules; 

 margin at first inflexed, then repand. Flesh thin, yellow. 



