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On tlie ground in woods. Common. [S. Carolina.]
Pilens 1 in. broad, umbonate, at length sub-inverted, white, lilac, brownish,
yellowish, &c., satiny, often rimóse. Gills adnate or adnexed,^ ventricose,
earthy, not cinnamon, margin white, sub-dentate. Stem 1-3 in. high, 1-2
lines thick, flexuous, equal, or sub-bulbous, firm, very minutely farinaceous
above, solid, less compact within. Odour strong and disagreeable.—iff. J . B.
3 3 7 . A g a r i c u s (H e b e lom a ) v a t x i c o s u s . Fr. “ Little
Hebeloma.”
Pileus rather fleshy, convexo-plane, subumbonate, smootb, viscid,
silky about the margin ; stem fistulose, contorted, pulverulent
; gills emarginate; ventricose, whitish, becoming brown.—
Fr. Epicr.p. 177. B. 4 Br. Ann. N .H . (1865), no. 1005.
Cn dead stumps. Sept. Bodelwyddan, Flintshire.
Before the veil is ruptured it looks like a smooth. Lepiota.~B. A Br.
Small, scarcely exceedÍDg half an incli broad, viscid when young and moist,
shining when dry, obsoletely silky at the margin. Inodorous.
Suh-Gen. 21. F lammula, Fr. S. M. i.p . 250.
Spores in most species purely ferruginous, occasionally approaching
yellow ochre, always bright in colour ; veil filamentous,
often obsolete; pilens flesby, and, as tbe sub-genus is a t present
constituted, very variable. I t may be,—1, covered witb an inseparable
fibrillose cnticle; 2, covered with a more or less viscid
and separable cuticle; 3, pilens moist, and witb no separable
cuticle ; 4, pileus neither pelliculose nor viscid, and broken up
more or less into scale or fibrils ; stem flesby, fibrous, confluent,
and bomogeneous with the bymenopbore; gills adnate, acutely
adnate, or decurrent.
H ab. Cn the ground or on wood.—{PI. IV . fig. 21.)
Fries says the natural afiinity of Flammula is with Pholiota, but I consider
all true Flammnlai should correspond with Clitocybe and Clitopilus. I suspect
some of the species of Flammula that approach Pholiota in structure might
with propriety be removed to that sub-genus, and Flammula proper be restricted
to species with decurrent gills. Most of the species are tasteless or
bitter, and none edible. They appear in late autumn or early winter. Some
species of Paxillus may be mistaken for Flammulce, hut attention must he
paid to the persistent gills, separating from the hymenophore and other
characters in Paxillus.— W. G. S.
3 3 8 .
Sect. 1. Heterogenei—variable.
A g a r icu s (F lam m u la ) h e lom o rp h u s.
“ W hite Flammula.”
Seer.
Wbite; pileus fleshy, convexo-plane, gibbous, unequal, viscid,
when dry silky, becoming even; margin naked; stem solid,
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unequal, curved, even, nearly smooth; gills adnato-decurrent,
CTOwded, white, tben tan coloured.—Dr. Epicr.p. 184. Seer.
In pine woods. (A. Jerdon.)
a b " h t l y
broad.—Anes. Spores very small, -0001 X -00014 im ’’ > 1 line
3 3 9 . A g a r icu s (F lam m u la ) scam h u s. Fr. “ Bow-legged
Flammula.”
Pileus somewhat fleshy, convexo-plane, then slightly de-
pressed and floccoso-villose, viscid in m d st weathe^r;
rathei stuffed, short, incurved, flocculose, and veiled, white
Dr D n i r fs"]’ f f ’f “’'reut, yellowish Br. Fpicr.p. 184. Berh. Outl.p. 157. clay-coloured.-
On larch.
3 4 0 . Agaricus (Flammula) floccifer. B . and P r. “ Floccose
Flammula.”
wwh hte? ftirb£nlisl ,^ ™stemt r °attt^en uated downwards, whitsep, riwnkitlbe d swilkityh
scales, fistulose umber within; gills rather broad, adnate ferruginous.—
D. 4 B r. Ann. Nat. Hist. no. 909. t. U f . 1 ’
On stumps of lime. Oct. Colleyweston.
spores ferrugmous; ring nine. The habit is that’of
3 41.
Sect. 2. Lubrici—viscid.
A g a iic u s (F lam m u la ) le n tu s . Pers. “ Dusky Flammula.”
v Z Z 'Z i even, viscid; stem ratber stuffed,
ong equal, squamose; gills adnate, whitish, tben clay-coloured.
~ I r . tp ic r. p. 1 8 1 . Eng. F I . y . p . 95
[S. Carolina.]