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salmon; margin striate or sulcate. Stem central, simple, equal or
attenuate up\yards, fistulose. Gills adnexed or free, membranous,
becoming moist, not deliquescing. Spores somewhat ferruginous or
salmon. (Fig. 52.)
A group of species resembling the Coprini in habit and short life,
but not deliquescing. They chiefly grow on dung or manured
ground, often near and in roads, frequently near towns, villages and
human habitations. None are edible. Species 964—973
964. B. grandiuseulus Cooke & Mass. (from its well-grown
appearance; grandiuscuius, well-grown) a b.
P. campanulato-expanded, papillose, ochreous-tan; mid. brownish-
orange ; marg. whitish-salmon. St. white. G. linear, adnexed
or free, orange or rusty-ochre.
Amongst grass. Autumn. 2 X 4J X J in.
965. B. flavidus Mass. {flavus, light yellow) a b.
P . campanulato-expanded, glutinous, olivaceous-ochre; mid.
somewhat elevated, sienna; marg. striate. St. pale yellow
within and without, fibrillose below, faintly olivaceous. V.
fugacious, white. G. adnexo-free, white, yellow then dusky
brown.
Dunghills after rain, rotten cloth in wood. June-Aug.
2 j X 2 j X A
“ Whole plant dissolves in a brown jelly,” Bolton.
966. B. Boltonii Fr. (after James Bolton of Halifax) a b.
P . flat, sulcate, viscid, sulphur-white, then dull salmon-whitish;
mid. somewhat depressed. St. floccose, sulphur-white. V.
fugacious. G. subadnate, white to yellow, pale dull salmon or
livid brown.
Heaps o f leaves and dung. May-Sept. i f X 3 X J in.
967. B. vitellinus Fr. (from the colour of the pileus, like yoke of egg,
vitellus) a.
P. campanulate, lobed, sulcate, viscid. St. white squamulose,
faint sulphur at base. G. slightly adnexed or free, ochreous-
tan.
Rich pastures, dung, horse. Autumn, i j X 3f X A
968. B. fragilis Fr. (from its fragility) abc.
P. flat, viscid, sulphur-white, straw or yellow. St. at first covered
with fine matted down, colour as P. G. attenuato-adnexed,
yellow, faintly olivaceous then pale cinnamon.
Road-drift and dung, horse, roadsides; common. April-Nov. 2jX 4j x | in.
969. B. titubans Fr. (from its tremulous habit; titubans, shaking)
abc.
P. flat, subdepressed, viscid, faint salmon-purplish; mid. faintly
ochreous. St. even, shining-yellowish, sometimes white,
squamulose at base. G. adnexed, narrow, colour as P.
Odour unpleasant. Grassy richly-manured soil, mushroom-beds, by rotten
stumps; common. May-Oct. 2 X3f x in.
970. B. apiealis W. G. Sm. in Cooke (from the well defined apex of
the pileus) a b.
P. conical, plicate to apical disc, tan-sienna or tan-umber ; mid.
abruptly ochreous. St. striate, minutely pruinose, salmon-
whitish. G. free, ventricose, sienna.
Pastures. June. J X i | X A « •
971. B. N IV EU S Mass. (from the white pileus ; niveus, snowy) a b.
P. campanulato-expanded, striate halfway, subumbonate, slightly
viscid ; mid. cracked-areolate, faint ochre. St. clavato-bulbous,
striate above, mealy-pruinose, white. G. free to adnate,
whitish to rufescent salmon.
On earth, in jmlmhouse at Kew. l i X 4 i X è in- Very delicate and
fragile.
972. B. tener Berk, (from its tender substance ; tener, tender) a b. ^
P. smooth, even, white ; mid. faintly ochreous ; marg. faint
salmon, sometimes wholly salmon. St. bulbous, white. G.
adnexed, salmon.
Rich grassy ground ; uncommon. May-Sept. I X 3 i X A Sometimes
8 ins. liigh.
973. B. R IVU LO SUS B. & Br. (from the rivulose pileus) a.
P. campanulate, dull tan or clay. St. white. G. free, narrow,
cinnamon.
Earth in orchid-house. July, i j X 3 X f in.
XLIV. COBTINABIUS Fr.
(From the cortina or
Veil single, partially double or double. When single there is
only an arachnoid cortina extending from the margin of the pileus to
the stem, on the latter of which it often forms a more or less perfect
fibrillose zone. When partially double the pileus and stem are more
or less fibrous and the arachnoid cortina distinct. When double the
whole plant is enveloped in infancy in a veil of gluten from which
the arachnoid cortina is distinct. PPymenophore continuous with the
stem. Pileus more or less fleshy. Stem central, more or less
viscid, annulate from the veil or fibrillose-zoned from the cortina;
annulus and zone often evanescent. Gills usually adnate, but sometimes
adnexed, free or sinuate with a decurrent tooth, membranous,
persistent, arid, at first often purple or blue changing to cinnamon
—from the spores. Spores the colour of iron-rust, rusty-ochre,
somewhat ochreous or pale or dark cinnamon.
The species are variable in size and changeable in colour, purple
and blue being common in infancy ; they present a different appearance
in different stages of growth and according as they are moist or
dry ; young as well as mature examples must therefore be studied.
All are terrestrial except 1140, which sometimes grows on wood.
Some species of Pholiota and Flammula somewhat resemble the
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