Minnesota, common in woods, _Johnson_; California, _H. and M._; Wisconsin, _Bundy_; New Jersey, _Ellis_; Vermont, _Burt_ (Lloyd); New York, _Peck_, 41st Rep.; Mt. Gretna, Pa., November, 1898. In woods. _McIlvaine._ But one specimen found and that was sent to Professor Peck. Taste bitter. Regarded as poisonous by European writers. It is not reported as tested in America. [Illustration] =FLAM´MULA= Fr. _Flamma_, a flame. (In reference to the bright colors of many of the species.) =Pileus= fleshy, margin _at first turned inward_. =Veil= fibrillose or none. =Stem= fleshy-fibrous, not mealy at the top. =Gills= decurrent or attached without a tooth. =Spores= mostly pure rust color; some brownish-rust, others tawny-ochraceous. A few species grow on the ground, the majority on wood. ANALYSIS OF TRIBES. GYMNOTI (naked). Page 288. Pileus dry, generally scaly. Spores not yellowish. LUBRICI (_lubricus_, slimy). Page 289. Pileus covered with a continuous, _viscid_, smooth, partly separable cuticle. Veil fibrillose. Spores not yellowish. Gregarious, on the ground, rarely on wood. Distinguished from Hebeloma by the gills not being sinuate and the top of the stem not mealy. UDI (_udus_, moist). Page 290. Veil slight, generally hanging in fragments. Cuticle of the pileus continuous, not separable, smooth, in places superficially downy, moist or slightly viscid in rainy weather. Spores not yellowish. Cespitose, growing on wood. SAPINEI (_sapinus_, pine). Page 291. Veil silky, very slight, adpressed to the stem or forming a silky ring on it. Cuticle of pileus thin, the flesh splitting at the surface into scales, not viscid. Distinguished by the gills and spores being light yellow or tawny. Somewhat cespitose; always on pine or on the ground among pine branches. SERICELLI (_sericeus_, silky). Cuticle of the pileus slightly silky, dry or at the first viscid. None known to be edible.