258 AGARICUS. 



Hebeloma. growing in troops ; odour very weak, but not unpleasant, not that of radish. 

 Most distinct from the minute (under a lens) viscous papillae on the pileus. 



In pine woods. Uncommon. Sept. 



Name punctus, a point. Dotted. Fr. Aionogr. i. p. 325. Hym. Eur. p. 

 239. Icon. t. 113. f. i. B. & Br. n. 906. C. Hbk. n. 308. S. MycoL Scot. 

 n. 310. 



574. A. versipellis Fr. Young. Pileus 2.5 cent, (i in.) and 

 more broad, fleshy, convexo-plane, obtuse, covered with a tenacious 

 glutinous pellicle, like a smooth sugared cake, becoming pale at 

 tJie disc, covered round the margin with glued white-silky villous 

 down. Stem about (5 cent. 2 in.) long, 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.) thick, 

 hollow, tough, equal, remarkably white-silky with the evident cor- 

 tina and white mealy above the ring formed by the cortina. Gills 

 rounded, crowded, thin, 6 mm. (3 lin.) broad, quite entire, arid, 

 almost white. 



Full grown, somewhat old. Pileus 7.5 cent. (3 in.) and more broad, fragile, 

 of one colour, dingy tan, opaque, dry, as if by the vanishing of the pellicle. 

 Stem longer, not silky, but longitudinally fibrilloso-striate, easily split up into 

 fibres, and at length, chiefly within, becoming fuscous. Gills 8-10 mm. (4-5 

 lin.) broad, crowded, in no wise dotted or spotted, pallid then clay-cinnamon. 



It changes so much with age and weather that it is necessary to describe it 

 separately when young and old. Pileus squamulose when young according to 

 Lindgr. Odour weak, not unpleasant. Somewhat casspitose. 



Among fir-leaves. Uncommon. Aug. 



Smell like that of several species of Hymenogastcr. B. & Br. Spores pruni- 

 form, 12 mk. Q. Name verto, to turn ; pellis, skin. From its change- 

 able appearance. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 326. Hym. Eur. p. 239. B. & Br. n. 

 907. C. Hbk. n. 309. 5. MycoL Scot. n. 311. Sterb. t. 20. B. 



575. A. mesophaeus Fr. Pileus 2.5 cent, (i in.) broad, pale 

 yellowish, or becoming pale, disc somewhat date-brown, slightly 

 fleshy, conical then convex, then plane, even depressed and darker 

 at the disc, viscous, even and commonly smooth. Stem 5-7.5 

 cent. (2-3 in.) long, 4 mm. (2 lin.) thick, somewhat fistulose, tough, 

 equal, fibrillose, whitish then ferruginous, becoming fuscous at 

 the base, pruinose at the apex. Cortina manifest, but thin, 

 fugacious. Gills rounded or emarginate, crowded, thin, plane, 

 arid, not spotted, clay-ferruginous, the edge, which is not dotted 

 and quite entire, of the same colour. 



Odour weak, almost none. Variable, growing in troops. The pileus is 

 rarely silky round the margin like A. punctatus, c. 



In pine woods. Uncommon. 



Spores 8x5 mk. W.P. Name jueo-o?, middle; <f>aios, dusky. From the 

 dusky centre of the pileus. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 327. Hym. Eur. p. 240. Icon. 



