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HYMENOMYCETES 
P. subsquarrosa resembles the above, but the gills are 
almost free. 
P. spectabilis (spectabilis, notable). 
P. 3-5 in., dry, bright tawny-orange, torn into innate 
similarly-coloured scales. F. firm, sulphur-yellow. G. ad- 
nato-decurrent, crowded, narrow ; pure yellow at first, then 
ferruginous. S. 3-4 in., thick, ventricose below the middle, 
and ending in a fusiform rooting base; sulphur colour, 
squamulose, even and mealy above the ample, spreading, 
persistent R. Tufted, on stumps. Frequent. 
P. adiposa (from the pileus, as if covered with fat). 
Plate XIII. 4. 
P. 2-4 in., fleshy, convex, glutinous; yellow, with con¬ 
centric, squarrose, darker scales. F. whitish. G. adnate, 
yellow, then ferruginous. S. 3-6 in., thick, subequal, some¬ 
what bulbous ; coloured and marked like the pileus up to 
the floccose, radiating yellow R. Frequent on trunks of 
various trees in aut. A very showy species, at once dis¬ 
tinguished by the glutinous pileus and stem. The rust- 
coloured scales which adorn them apparently dissolve away 
in the gluten. 
P. mutabilis ( mutabilis , changeable). Also forms dense 
tufts on trunks (chiefly lime and ash). Pileus not scaly, 
obtusely umbonate, deep cinnamon, pale when dry. Tastes 
like gingerbread. 
ACETABULARIA 
(. Acetabulum , a vinegar cup—from the cup-like volva) 
A. acetabulosa. 
P. just over 1 in., white, plicate, tan colour. G. adnexed, 
subdistant, pale brown. 5 . 2 in., slender, hollow, white. 
V. small, whitish. An obscure plant found a little above 
high-water mark near Millbank, Westminster, in May, 
1 795- Since then it has not been noted. “This is very 
