. British fungi (hymenomycetes). Basidiomycetes; Fungi -- Great Britain. GOMPHIDIUS. (3-4 in.) and flexuous, fistulose, undulated on the surface, smooth, Hygrocyi not furnished with a cuticle but wholly fissile into fibrils, pallid fuscous, at length cinnamon-fuscous. Gills adnate, slightly ven- tricose, thin, but truly distant, distinct, 3 mm. (1% lin.) broad, cinnamon. Spores cinnamon. On account of its colours it is like C. Jlexipes, but in its whole nature it is nearest to C. acutus. In pine woods. Dinmore, &c. Umbo very acute. Name—fascia, band; fillet. From the stem


. British fungi (hymenomycetes). Basidiomycetes; Fungi -- Great Britain. GOMPHIDIUS. (3-4 in.) and flexuous, fistulose, undulated on the surface, smooth, Hygrocyi not furnished with a cuticle but wholly fissile into fibrils, pallid fuscous, at length cinnamon-fuscous. Gills adnate, slightly ven- tricose, thin, but truly distant, distinct, 3 mm. (1% lin.) broad, cinnamon. Spores cinnamon. On account of its colours it is like C. Jlexipes, but in its whole nature it is nearest to C. acutus. In pine woods. Dinmore, &c. Umbo very acute. Name—fascia, band; fillet. From the stem splitting into bundles of fibres. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 114. Hym. Eur. p. 399. Grevillea, vol. viii. p. 78. B. & Br. n. 1884. Quel. Grev. t. 114. f. 5. >e GENUS VI.—Gomphidius (7°W°S, a wooden bolt or nail). Gomphidius. Fr. Epicr. p. 310. Hymenophore decurrent on the stem. Gills composed of a mucilaginous membrane, scissile, continuous at the acute edge, pruinate with the blackish fusiform spores. Veil viscoso-floccose. Grow- ing on the ground, fleshy, putrescent, pileus at length turbinate ; gills de- current, distant, soft. A small genus, with great differ- ences among the species, intermedi- ate by its habit between Cortinarius and Hygrophorus. Fr. Hym. Eur. P- 399- Universal veil glutinous, at first terminating on the stem in a floccose ring or fugacious cortina. The gills often admit of being detached and stretched out into a continuous . .. XL VI. Gomphidius mscidus. membrane. Fr. Monogr. \\. p. 149. One-fifth natural size. 1. G. glutinosus Fr.—Pileus cent. (2-5 in.) broad, purple-fuscous, often mottled with black spots, fleshy, convex, obtuse, at length plane, even depressed, even, smooth, very glutinous; flesh thick, about 12 mm. (}4 in.), soft, white. Stem cent. (2-3 in.) and more long, about 12 mm. (% in.) thick, solid, whitish, thickened and externally and internally yellow at the base, viscid with the veil, fibrillose or varying with black.


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