Chapter 56
B. _Gills not separating spontaneously, nor easily from flesh of pileus._
* _Stem furnished with a volva, or an interwoven ring, or with both._
=Locellina=. Volva and ring both present.
=Pholiota=. Ring alone present.
** _Volva and ring both absent._
+ _Stem central._
=Pluteolus=. Gills free.
=Bolbitius=. Pileus membranaceous; gills deliquescent at maturity.
=Inocybe=. Stem fleshy, fibrous externally; pileus fibrillose or scaly; gills sinuato-adnexed.
=Hebeloma=. Stem fleshy, fibrous externally; pileus glabrous, viscid; gills sinuato-adnexed.
=Naucoria=. Stem cartilaginous externally; edge of pileus incurved at first; gills adnexed or adnate.
=Galera=. Stem cartilaginous externally; edge of pileus straight at first; gills adnexed or adnate, often with a decurrent tooth.
=Tubaria=. Stem cartilaginous externally; gills broadest behind, decurrent or adnato-decurrent.
=Flammula=. Stem fleshy, fibrous externally; gills adnate or decurrent.
=Cortinarius=. Universal veil cobweb-like, not forming an interwoven ring, often collapsing and forming a ring-like zone on the stem; stem fleshy, fibrous.
++ _Stem excentric or absent._
=Crepidotus=.
PAXILLUS, Fr.
A. LEPISTA. _Pileus entire, central._
[=sordarius=, Fr. P. convexo-gibbous then plano-depr. dingy white, edge at length spreading and sulcate; g. adnate, crowded; s. spongy-stuffed, equal, striate, greyish white; sp. 8 6.
=Alexandri=, Fr. P. 4-7 cm. compact, plane then depr. dry, fawn, edge strongly incurved; g. subdecur. yellowish; s. 1-2 cm. stout; sp. 4-5 2-3.
=lepista=, Fr. P. 4-9 cm. plano-depr. dry, dingy white, edge incurved, even, naked; g. deeply decur. rather branched, crowded, whitish; s.
solid, stout, pallid; sp. 8 6.
Differs from large sp. of _c.l.i.tocybe_ by strongly incurved p. and dingy spores.
=extenuatus=, Fr. P. 2-5 cm. rigid, campan. exp. naked, glabrous, moist, brownish tan, edge incurved, downy, even; g. deeply decur. closely crowded, white then dingy; s. 3-5 cm. solid, base tuberous, rooting; sp.
=panaeolus=, Fr. P. 2-4 cm. thin, exp. subdepr. glabrous, moist, white, edge incurved, thin; g. slightly decur. crowded, narrow, pale rusty; s.
2-3 cm. rufescent, thickened below; sp. subg. 5.
var. _spilomaeolus_,
[=nitens=, Lamb. P. convex, fleshy, glutinous in damp weather, s.h.i.+ning and velvety when dry, yellow-brown, edge incurved, paler; g. free, sinuate, closely crowded, becoming olive-brown; s. reddish-yellow, base darker.
=orcelloides=, Cke. and Ma.s.s. P. 2-4 cm. thin, exp. snow-white then with greyish blotches, edge incurved; g. adnato-decur. white then brownish; s. 2-3 cm. tapering to base, ochre; sp. 8 4.
Differs from _P. panaeolus_ in tapering stem and sp.
=lividus=, Cke. P. 2-5 cm. convex, disc depr. margin arched and incurved, dingy white or livid ochre; g. decur. broad, white; s. 6-9 cm.
narrowed downwards, white; sp. glob. 3-3.5, whitish.
Probably a sp. of _c.l.i.tocybe_.
=revolutus=, Cke. P. 2-3 cm. convex, pale ochre, edge thin, sometimes tinged lilac, a little upturned; g. deeply decur. pale tan; s. 2-3 cm.
narrowed downwards, paler than p., often tinged violet at base; sp.
glob. 3.5-4.
Differs from _P. lividus_ in deeply decur. coloured g.
B. TAPINIA. _Pileus usually excentric or resupinate._
=involutus=, Fr. P. 7-12 cm. convex then depr. moist, rusty orange, incurved edge downy, flesh pallid; g. branched, broad, anastomosing behind, dingy ochre; s. solid, firm, 3-4 cm.; sp. 8-12 5-6.
var. _excentricus_, Fr. P. excentric; s. short, growing on wood.
=paradoxus=, Cke. P. 2-6 cm. convex then exp. sometimes irreg. densely tomentose, rufous umber with purple tinge; g. decur. connected by veins, yellow; s. 2-3 cm. fibrillose, red and yellow; sp. 20-22 7-8.
=leptopus=, Fr. P. 4-7 cm. excentric, gibbous then depr. yellow-brown, torn into downy squamules, flesh yellow; g. simple, very narrow, yellowish then darker; s. 1-2 cm. solid, base narrowed; sp. 8-9 5.
=atrotomentosus=, Fr. P. 6-12 cm. compact, excentric, gibbous then plano-infundib. dry, torn into granules, rusty; g. adnate, yellowish; s.
solid, rooting, densely covered with blackish tomentum; sp. 5 3.
[=griseotomentosus=, Fr. P. convexo-plane, gibbous, excentric, oblique, glabrous, tan, becoming rusty when bruised, edge incurved, downy; flesh watery; g. decur. broad, tan; s. stout, tuberous, velvety with grey down; sp. 9 long.
[=chrysophyllus=, Trog. P. campan.-plane, horizontal, cracked into scales, pale cinnamon; g. decur. broad, white then citrin; s. short, ascending, pallid.
=cra.s.sus=, Fr. P. 5-7 cm. oblique, nearly plane and even, becoming rusty; g. rather distant, cinnamon; s. very short, excentric, ascending; sp. 15-18 7-8.
Strongly suggests the genus _Flammula_.
[=ionipus=, Q. P. 5-10 cm. sh.e.l.l-shaped, oboval or oblong, glabrous, straw-colour with a tinge of olive, narrowed into a short, bulbous, tomentose, amethyst or lilac stem; flesh soft, citrin; g. decur.
transversely veined, branched, tinged olive then cinnamon; sp. 6-7 long.
=panuoides=, Fr. P. 4-7 cm. sh.e.l.l-shaped, downy then glabrous, sessile becoming resupinate, dingy yellow; g. decur. crowded, branched, crisped, yellow; sp. 4-5 3-4.
var. _f.a.gi_, Cke. Gregarious, crisped; g. crisped, orange.