Plant gregarious, solitary or subcaespitose. Pileus convex, at length nearly
plane, but generally more or less obtusely umbonate, 1-2 inches broad,
the apex mostly smooth, but the rest furfuraceous, with small, often reflexed
scales: the Colour mostly orange-yellow, but sometimes with a
red tinge, ,very rarely nearly white. Flesh thin, white. Lamellce rather
numerous, whitish, adnate with the stipes, becoming tinged with
yellow in age. Stipes 2 -4 inches high, 2-4 lines thick, rarely with any
cavity unless at the top, nearly straight, firm, thicker at the base, and
rough from the annulus downwards, with spreading scales. Annulus irregular,
somewhat fugitive, or at least losing its form.
A garicus granulosus is a species liable to considerable variety
in size and colour, as tbe synonymes sufficiently prove.
In tbe annexed figmre, I bave represented tbe most common
appearance exhibited by it in tbis country, in colour as well as
magnitude. Tbose specimens delineated by S o w e r b y , approach
some of the continental varieties, but are still very characteristic.
It is one of our most beautiful species, the regularity
of the little scales giving the plant a peculiarly neat appearance.
By drying it with slight pressure, it preserves extremely
well, and retains its main characters.
Fig. 1. Solitary plants. Fig. 2. A tuft o f half-grown
ture plant divided longitudinally.—All nat. size.
Fig. 3. A ma