308 AGARICUS. 



Psaliota. Very striking, 7. 5-10 cent. (3-4 in.) high. The pileus and the white stem 



become spotted-blood-red when touched. The stem when young is adpress- 

 edly squamulose below, when full grown mealy, becoming smooth. 



In woods. Lilleshall, Salop, &c. Nov. 



Pileus 10 cent. (4 in.) across; stem 10 cent. (4 in.) high, 2.5 cent, (t in.) 

 thick, B. & Br. Name ai^oppoiSey (t^Ae'/Se?) veins which discharge blood, 

 haemorrhoids. Kalchbr. Hung. t. i8.f. i. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 281. R. & Br. 



" 1-534- 



** M INGRES. Not used as food, pileus thinly fleshy. 



691. A. comtulus Fr. Pileus 2.5-4 cent. (i-i>< in.) broad, 

 yellowish- white, slightly fleshy, convex then plane, obtuse, ad- 

 pressedly fibrilloso-silky, becoming even; flesh thin, soft, of the 

 same colour as the pileus. Stem 5 cent. (j. in.) long, 4-6 mm. 

 (2-3 lin.) thick, hollow, stuffed with floccules when young, some- 

 what attenuated, even, smooth, white, becoming somewhat light 

 yellow. Ring medial, torn, fugacious, of the same colour. Gills 

 rounded-free behind, crowded, soft, broader in {VQK\., flesh-colour 

 then rose, not fuscous-flesh-colour except when old. 



Very much allied to A. campestris, but constantly distinct in its more beau- 

 tifully coloured gills. 



In woods, c. Coed Coch, 1880. Autumn. 



Name comptus, gaily adorned. Fr. Monogr. \. p. 407. Hym. Eur. />. 

 281. Icon. t. 130. f. i. B. er 1 Br. n. 1874. 



692. A. echinatus Roth. Pileus 2.5-5 cent - O^ 2 in -) broad, 

 of a peculiar fuliginous colour, slightly fleshy, campanulate, ob- 

 tuse, at the first floccoso-pulverulent and somewhat continuous, 

 then densely and adpressedly rivuloso-scaly, without striae; flesh 

 thin, whitish. Stem 4-5 cent. (1^-2 in.) long, 2-4 mm. (1-2 lin.) 

 thick, firm, fistulose, with a lax white arachnoid web internally, 

 otherwise externally and internally cinnabar-purple, below the 

 ring densely covered over with flocculoso-pulverulent mouse-col- 

 oured sootiness which can be rubbed off, equal, naked above the 

 ring. Ring floccoso-membranaceous, externally sprinkled witli 

 fuliginous dust, soon torn, appendiculate at the margin ; very 

 beautifully striate above, becoming purple-whitish. Gills free, 

 reaching a slightly prominent but little elevated collar, crowded, 

 narrow, rarely exceeding 2 mm. (r lin.) broad, very beautifully 

 cinnabar-purple, the edge which is quite entire of the same 

 colour. 



Gregarious, casspitose ; odour of cucumber. The soil is rolled together 

 with the white mycelium in the form of a ball at the base of the stem. When 



