298 AGARICUS. 



Tubaria. round the margin with the hoary, silky-squamulose veil. Stem 

 2.5-5 cent. (1-2 in.) long, 2-4 mm. (1-2 lin.) thick, fistulose, equal, 

 floccoso-furfurate at least when young, villous at the base with 

 the effused white mycelium, of the same colour as the pileus, 

 and deeper in colour as the pileus becomes pale. Gills somewhat 

 decurrent, very broad at the stem, more or less distant, bright 

 cinnamon. 



Very polymorphous. Gregarious, very hygrophanous, not viscid, at length 

 fragile. The gills scarcely change colour. 



On twigs, stalks, &c. Common. Jan.-Dec. 



Name -furfur, bran. Branny, scurfy. Pers. Syn. p. 454. Fr. Monogr. i. 

 /. 382. Hym. Eur. p. 272. Berk. Out. p. 161. C. Hbk. n. 387. S. Mycol. 

 Scot. n. 354. Var. C. Illust. PL 483. A. squarrosus Bull. t. 535. /. 3. Batsch 

 /. 98. 



668. A. paludosus Fr. Pileus 6-8 mm. (3-4 lin.) broad, pale 

 yellowish-fuscous, but everywhere silky with superficial pallid 

 flocci, somewhat membranaceous, at first conical, then convex, um- 

 bonate with a very prominent papilla, without strice. Stem 7.5 cent. 

 (3 in.) long, 2 mm. (i lin.) thick at the base, attenuated towards 

 the apex where it is only i m. (% lin.) thick, fistulose, flexuous, 

 ochraceousj paler, white-villous below, flocculose above with the 

 remains of the veil. Gills decurrent, very broad behind, trian- 

 gular and with a decurrent tooth, crowded, thin, watery ochraceous 



It departs from the type of the group in having the pileus papillate. In 

 the typical form (stygia) the gills are truly decurrent. There is another form, 

 paludosa, occurring in dried marshes : pileus somewhat fuscous-honey colour, 

 stem only 4 cent. (i% in.) long, gills not decurrent. 



On marshy ground among Sphagna. Rare. Aug. 



Spores almond-shaped, 12 mk. Q. Name palus, a marsh. Fr. Monogr. 

 i. p. 396. Hym. Eur. p. 273. Icon. t. 129. f. 3. B. fr 3 Br. n. 1125. C. 

 Hbk. n. 385. Illust. PL 484. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 355. 



669. A. stagninus Fr. Pileus 6-20 mm. (3-10 lin.) broad, 

 bay-brown-ferruginous or brown when moist, somewhat ochra- 

 ceous when dry, somewhat membranaceous, conical then hemi- 

 spherical, never flattened, obtuse, sometimes rather depressed in the 

 centre, somewhat viscid and slightly striate when moist, even 

 when dry, elegantly clothed and appendiculate round the margin 

 withfloccose, superficial, concentric, white scales. Stem 10 cent. 

 (4 in.) to as much as a span long, 2 mm. (i lin.) thick, slightly 

 tough, fistulose, equal, rubiginous then date-brown, somewhat 

 pruinose at the apex. Gills decurrcnt, very broad, triangular, 

 ferruginous. 



