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128 AGARICACEÆ
578. P. squarrosa Quél, (from the rough-scaly pileus ; squarrosus,
rough) abc.
P. convex, gibbous, dry, ochreous-sienna ; marg. appendiculate
with V. St. stuffed, attenuate downwards, brown-squarrose
below A. G. adnate with a decurrent tooth, olivaceous-
ferruginous. Flesh light yellow.
Cæspitose, sometimes in fascicles of 50 or more. Sometimes eaten. Odour
strong and nauseous of putrid cheese or none. On or near stumps, beech,
oak, ash, laburnum, acacia, apple, plum ; common. July-Dee. 3J X 4J X | in.
Sometimes twice the size of type. Var. verruculosa Gill. P. glutinous
when wet ; maple. Var. reflexa Gill. P. umbonate. Var. M ü lk ri Gill,
small, wholly sulphur.
579. P. subsquarrosa Quél, (from the pileus, less scaly than 578) a c.
P. plane, viscid, brown ; marg. appendiculate with V. St. subsquarrose
below A., yellow-ferruginous. G. adnate with a
decurrent tooth, or almost emarginato-free, pale brown. Flesh
pale ochreous-brownish.
Subcæspitose. Odour almost obsolete. Trunks, fir, and on the ground.
Sept. 2 X 2 | X A in-
579a. P. grandis Rea {grandis, large) b.
P. convex, then expanded, broadly gibbous, dry, fulvous-tawny,
covered with small innate deeply tawny sq. at the circ., revolute
at mid. St. solid, fusiform, slightly squamulose and tawny
below the distant, almost fugacious A., deeply striate above.
G. broad, attenuate in front, deeply sinuato-decurrent behind,
somewhat crowded, pallid, then fuscous. Flesh light yellow,
ferruginous in St.
Cæspitose. Taste and odour very pleasant. Trunks, ash, oak. Oct.
9 X 8J X 2j in.
580. P. speetabilis Gill, {spectabilis, notable) abc.
P. convex, obtuse, dry, rich sienna-yellow. St. solid, squamulose
or smooth, ventricose, rich yellow. G. adnate with a tooth or
subdecurrent. Flesh sulphur.
Cæspitose. Taste, bitter-aromatic. Stumps, oak, beech, hornbeam,
hawthorn ; frequent. Aug.-Dee. SgxSl xi Jin. Stem sometimes 9 in.
Resembles 1049 in appearance.
581. P. adiposa Quél, (from the pileus, as if covered with fat) abc.
P. plane, subdepressed, very glutinous, sulphur; sc. floccose,
ferruginous ; mid. deep sienna-yellow ; marg. appendiculate
with V. St. squarrose, viscid, colour as P. A. small, floccose.
G. adnato-rounded.
Cæspitose. Trunks, beech, ash, plum, silver-fir, birch ; frequent. July-Oct.
7 X 5 X i in.
581a. p. lucifera Quél, (from the flame-like colours ; lux, light,
fero, to carry) a.
P. fleshy, convex, almost plane becoming umbonate, viscid,
covered at first with darker adpressed sc. which soon disappear,
yellow, or orange with sulphur marg. St. stuffed to hollow.
sometimes solid, equal, somewhat squamulose, becoming smooth,
whitish above, brown below without and within. Ac. distant.
G. emarginato-adfixed, narrow, crenulate, yellow-white, luminous
yellow, then olive or ferruginous.
Trunks, branches, straw, almost terrestrial. Odour strong. Autumn.
2j X 2 X I in.
582. P. flammans Karst, (from its fiery colours) abc.
P. convex, subumbonate, yellow or orange; sc. sulphur. St.
squarrose, sulphur or yellow. A. superior. G. sulphur, then
brown. Flesh sulphur.
Gregarious or in clusters. Odour none. Woods, pine, pine-leaves, dead
pine-branches. July-Oct. 2 X 2 j x A Mycelium often deep orange.
583. P. Junonia Karst, (from its beauty, belonging to Juno) a b.
P. convex-plane, subumbonate, yellow to deep sienna-orange.
St. even, solid, yellow above, sienna below. A. distant.
G. adnate.
Usually solitary. Trunks. Oct. 3§ X 3 | X | in. Must not be confounded
with 695.
584. P. tuberculosa Gill, (from the bulbous base of the stem) a b.
P. convexo-plane, obtuse, tawny or pale sulphur; mid. brown.
St. hollow, subbulbous, attenuato-rooting, fibrilloso-scaly, light
yellow or ochre. A. fugitive. G. adnate or emarginate,
serrulate.
Solitary or cæspitose. Trunks, birch ; sawdust. Oct. 2 X i f X J in.
585. P. eupvipes Quél, (from the frequently curved stem ; curva,
a curve, pes, a foot) abc .
P. expanded, subumbonate, tawny or orange ; marg. at first
appendiculate with white V. St. fistulose, fibrillose, light
yellow. A. floccose, fugitive. G. adnate with a white edge.
Flesh light yellow.
Gregarious, subcæspitose. Taste somewhat pleasant-insipid ; not strongly
scented. Trunks, sawdust, deal boards in greenhouses. Oct. 2| X i f X i in.
586. P. cruentata Sacc. (from the blood-coloured scales of the
pileus ; cruentatus, blood-stained) a b.
P. convex, obtuse, yellow ; sc. crimson-brown. St. solid,
attenuato-rooting, subsquamulose below A., colour as P.
A. fibrillose. G. adnate or emarginate, brown, somewhat
olive. Fiesh pale yellow.
Taste insipid. Trunks, oak ; burnt ground. A u g .-S ep t. i f X i j X J in.
c. Hygrophanæ.
587. P. Paxillus Gill, (from its resemblance to 1181, Paxillus involutus
Fr.) a.
P. expanded, subumbonate, ochreous-buff; mid. darker. St.
solid, smooth, colour as P., brown at base. A. narrow,
spreading. G. subdecurrent, crowded.
Trunks. Autumn. 6 X 6j X î in. Sometimes w ho lly cinnamon.K
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