284 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



* Cuticle of pileus fihrillose orfloccose. 



Fluteus cervinus. Schaeff. 



Pileus 2-4 in. across, flesh white, thick at the disc, he- 

 coming very thin towards the margin, campanulate then 

 expanded, even, at first glabrous, then becoming broken up 

 into fibrillose squamules that soon disappear, smoky with a 

 yellow, brown, or fawn-coloured tinge; giUs free, crowded, 

 2-3 lines broad, white then salmon-colour ; stem 2-4 in. 

 long, i in. and more thick, equal, pale with blackish fibrils, 

 solid; spores broadly elliptical, smooth, 7-8 X 5-6; cystidia 

 Tentricose, often spinose at the apex. 



Agaricus cervinus, Sohaeffer, t. 10; C'ke., Hdbk., p. 114; 

 ■Cke., lUustr., pi. 501. 



On trunks and stumps. 



Solitary. Pileus 2-3 in. broad, carnose, here and there 

 wrinkled, campanulate, at length more or less plane, umber, 

 ■at length dark-brown ; gills free, ventricose, moderately 

 close, at first white, then rose red. The texture consists of 

 long cells, and between the asci which cover their surface 

 under a high power at tolerably regular distances are trans- 

 parent bodies, longer than the asci, ending in two or three 

 ■curved spiculae ; spores round, rose-coloured ; stem 3-4 in . 

 high, firm, thicker at the base, whitish or here and there 

 cf the colour of the pileus, but paler, covered with tine black 

 :streaks. (Ditm.) 



Var. patricius, Sohulz., in Ealchbr., Icon. Hung., t. 10, 

 1. 2; Cke., Hdbk., p. 115; Cke., Illustr., pi. 565. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, whitish, then smoky-grey or fawn- 

 colour, with umber or cinnamon scales, at length smooth, 

 silky, and shining, and cracked in a radiate manner ; gills 

 £s in the typical form ; stem stout, white, shining ; spores 

 elliptical, smooth, 8 X 5-6 jx.. 



On dead logs, stumps, &c. 



Var. eximius, jSaund. & Smith, Illustr., pi. 38 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 115; Cke., Illustr., pi. 302. 



Pileus 4^6 in. across, flesh thick, convex then expanded, 

 'even, covered with a separable cuticle, umber becoming 

 ireJdish ; gills crowded, free, but very close to the stem, 

 ^ in. and more broad, pale salmon-colour ; stem 4 in. long, 



