46 AGARICUS. 



Tricholoma. In fir woods. Frequent. Sept.-Oct. 



Taste disagreeable. M.J.B. Spores ellipsoid-sphaeroid, 6 mk. K. Name 

 vacca, a cow. From the reddish-brown colour. Pers. Syn. p. 293 (exclud- 

 ing synonym Sch(?ff.} Fr. Monogr. i. p. 65. Hym. Eur. p. 56. Berk. Out. p. 

 100. C. Hbk. n. 54. Illust. PL 60. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 49. Batsch f. 116. 

 A. rufus. Pers. Ic. and descript. t. 2. f. 1-4. 



83. A. immundus Berk. Pileus 5 cent. (2 in.) or more broad, 

 dirty white stained with bistre, fleshy, at first convex, minutely 

 silky ; margin inflexed, silky or minutely scabrous and squam- 

 ulose. Stem fibrillose, of the same colour as the pileus. Gills 

 emarginate, marked with transverse lines, somewhat cinereous 

 with a pinkish tinge. 



Casspitose. Every part blackish when bruised. Border deflexed. 



Among short grass on sheep's dung. Rare. Oct. 



Name immundus, dirty, discoloured. Berk. Out. p. 103. C. Hbk. n. 

 72. Illust. PL 61. S. Mycol. Scot. Supp. Scot. Nat. 1882, /. 213. Fr. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 56. 



84. A. gausapatus Fr. Pileus 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) broad, 

 grey-cinereous, fleshy, somewhat thin, bullate or obtusely cam- 

 panulate, the flexuous bent-in margin tomentose-woolly, then ex- 

 panded, repand, tomentose with dense, superficial, separating, silky- 

 adpressed fibrils, somewhat woolly. Stem 5 cent. (2 in.) long, 12 

 mm. ()4 in.) and more thick, solid, stout, equal, blunt, laxly --fibril- 

 lose, shining white, manifestly furnished with a cortina. Gills 

 emarginate, free, crowded, 4 mm. (2 lin.) broad, grey. 



Allied to A. terreus, but larger, mild, inodorous, the form of the pileus re- 

 markable. 



In grassy woods. Epping Forest. 



Spores 4x6 mk. W.P. Name gausapa (yavo-aTrr;?), a shaggy woollen cloth. 

 From the covering of the pileus. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 67. Hym. Eur. p. 57. 



85. A. terreus Schasff. Pileus 4-7.5 cent. (i>-3 m -) broad, 

 fuscous, mouse colour, grey, becoming azure-blue, &c., slightly 



fleshy, soft-fragile, campanulate then expanded, umbonate, vil- 

 lous, for the most part floccoso-scaly, sometimes broken up into 

 dark (not white) innate adpressed fibrils, repand when larger; 

 margin at first inflexed, naked ; flesh scissile, white. Stem about 

 5 cent. (2 in.) long, 8-10 mm. (4-5 lin.) thick, solid, more rarely 

 at length hollow, equal, becoming even with longitudinally ad- 

 pressed fibrils, white and delicately white pruinose at the apex. 

 Gills remarkably emarginate, somewhat distant, 6 mm. (3 lin.) 

 broad, unequal at the edge, white then becoming cinereous. 



