320 AGARICUS. 



(_|_5 in.) long, 8 mm. (4 lin.) thick, solid, equal, round, even, some- 

 what fibrillose, pallid. Gills adnate with a decurrent tooth, in 

 groups of 4-6, becoming livid-cinereous, at length fuscous, the 

 edge, which is at first serrulated, white. 



Spores fuscous, not fuscous-purple. Firm, solitary and not hygrophanous, 

 in which it differs widely from A. lachrymabundus, &c. The habit is rather 

 that of Inocybe. 



On roots of trees. Very rare. Ascot. Perth Fungus Show. 

 Sept.-Oct. 



Gathered in England in 1873, m England and in Wales in 1874, and in 

 Scotland in 1875. Spores 6x4 mk. IV. P. Name storect, a mat. From the 

 texture of the pileus. Fr. Monogr. \. p. 423. Hym. Eur. p, 293. B. & Br. 

 u. 1418. 5. I(Iycol. Scot. n. 383. Smith, Journ. Bot. xiv. t. 176. f. 4. 



716. A. lachrymabundus Fr. Pileus 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) 

 broad, whitish when young, then fuscous, becoming pale round 

 the margin, truly fleshy, but not compact, convex, obtuse, piloso- 

 scaly, the innate scales darker; flesh white. Stem 5 cent. (2 in.) 

 long, 6-8 mm. (3-4 lin.) thick, hollow, somewhat thickened at the 

 base, fibril 't 'oso-scaly, becoming fuscous-whitish. Cortina separate, 

 fibrillose, appendiculate, white. Gills adnate, crowded, 6 mm. 

 (3 lin.) broad, whitish then fuscous-purple, edge whitish and dis- 

 tilling drops in wet weather. 



fuscous-purple. From mutual pressure the pilei are often irregular. 

 Very casspitose, firm. It differs remarkably from A. pyrotrichus, c. , with 

 which it has been confounded, in the fleshy and not hygrophanous pileus. A. 

 lachrymabundus Bull. t. 525. f. 3 is A. pyrotrichus; /. 194 remains doubtful, 

 It must not be confounded with A. velutinus. 



On trunks and the ground. Uncommon. Sept.-Oct. 



A form has occurred in which the broadly adnate gills remained persistently 

 white. The edge was studded with beads of moisture as in the more ordinary 

 condition, B. or 5 Br. Frequently confounded with 4. velutinus. Spores 9-11 

 mk. B. & Br. Name lachrytna, a tear. From the drops of moisture on the 

 gills. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 423. Hym. Eur. />. 293. Icon. t. 134. f. i. Berk. 

 Out. p. 170. B. & Br. n. 1254*. C. Hbk. n. 407 partly. S. Mycol. Scot 

 n. 384. Hoffm. h. t. 15. /|3 (small). 



717. A. pyrotrichus Holmsk. Pileus 7.5 cent. (3 in.) broad, 

 fiery-tawny, slightly fleshy, at first hemispherical, obtuse, then 

 expanded, densely clothed with somewhat adpressed tawny fibrils, 

 which are here and there fasciculate in the form of scales ; flesh 

 tawny. Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.) thick, 

 hollow, fibrous-soft, equal or not perceptibly thickened at the 

 base, fibrillose, commonly slightly squarrose with small scales, 

 becoming tawny. Cortina tawny. Gills adnate, somewhat 

 crowded, broad, at first pallid, the flocculose edge white, then 

 becoming brown, and at length free. 



