280 AGARICUS. 



Naucoria. In damp places. 



Name innocuus, harmless. Spores 10x4-6 mk. M.C.C. Lasch n. 398- 

 Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 257. C. Illust. PL 489. a. 



627. A. cerodes Fr. Pileus 1-2.5 cent - ( 1 A~ 1 in -) broad, watery 

 cinnamon when moist, tan-colour when dry, somewhat membran- 

 aceous, campanulato-convex and flattened, at length depressed, 

 obtuse, when moist smooth, pellucid-striate at the circumference, 

 when dry even, slightly si Iky -ato mate. Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) 

 long, 2-4 mm. (1-2 lin.) thick, sligjitly firm, fistulose, equal, some- 

 what flexuous, fibrilloso-striate under a lens, becoming bay-brown- 

 fuscous sometimes for the most part, sometimes only at the base, 

 pallid upwards, mealy at the apex. Gills adnate, separating, very 

 broad beliind, hence almost triangular, somewhat distant, broad, 

 plane, soft, distinct, pallid then cinnamon, very finely fimbriated 

 at the edge under a lens. 



The typical form, growing among damp mosses is quite early, gregarious, 

 with the colours almost those of A. hypnorum, but otherwise very different. 

 B. Another form occurs on naked, commonly burnt soil, in late autumn with 

 almost the habit of A. pediades, but with a different colour of gills and spores ; 

 this form is firmer, stem 2.5 cent, (i in.) long, tense and straight, and colour 

 more ochraceous. 



Among moss. Sept. 



In 'Hym. Eur.' (description a reprint of 'Epicr.') Fries gives the larger 

 form as the later. Spores 9 mk. B. & Br. Name /ojpos, wax. Fr. Monogr. 

 i. p. 370. Hym. Eur. p. 257. B. & Br. n. 1948. C. Illust. PI. 489. b. 



628. A. melinoides Fr. Pileus 12-18 mm. (%-% in.) broad, 

 tawny when moist, ochraceous when dry, fleshy, convex then 

 plane, obtuse or gibbous, even, smooth, striate at the margin 

 when old. Stem short, 4 cent. (1% in.) long, 2 mm. (i lin.) thick, 

 slightly firm, fistulose, equal or slightly attenuated, somewhat of 

 the same colour as tJie pileus, paler at the base, delicately white- 

 pruinose at the apex. Gills adnate, crowded, somewhat tawny. 



There is also an elongated form, confounded with A. cerodes, in which the 

 stem 155-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, slightly attenuated at both ends, flexuous, 

 rather smooth, ochraceous; pileus globose then hemispherical, 12 mm. (y z 

 in.) broad ; gills adnate, ventricose, light yellowish-ochraceous. A. melinoides 

 Bull, is A. hypnorum, not this species, but in the same plate a figure of this 

 has crept in. 



On lawns, roadsides, &c. Common. June-Nov. 



In ' Hym. Eur.' gills are described as triangular-oblong, slightly toothed 

 and honey-coloured. Spores elliptic, 16 mk., with one or two nuclei, B. &* 

 Br. Name /u.e'Ai, honey. Honey-like. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 371. Hym. Eur. 

 p. 257. Berk. Out. p. 160. t. g. f. 3. C. Hbk. n. 361. Illust. PL 457. a. S. 

 Mycol. Scot. n. 334. Bull. t. 560. /. i. F only. 



