38 AGARICUS. 



Tricholoma. Gregarious ; odour pleasant ; taste mild. Habit in a measure that of Hy- 

 grophonts eburneus. Doubtless edible. 



In woods, beech, &c. Frequent. Sept.-Oct. 



Name resplendens, shining brightly. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 55. Hym. Eiir. 

 p. 49. Icon. t. 29. f. i. B. & Br, n. 1337. S. My col, Scot. n. 40. C. 

 Illust. PL 55. 



66. A. spermaticus Fr. White. Pileus somewhat fleshy, 

 convex then flattened, obtuse, repand, smooth, viscous (shining 

 when dry), margin at first bent inwards, naked. Stem stuffed 

 then hollow, elongated, twisted, even. Gills emarginate, some- 

 what distant, eroded. 



Like A. Columbetta, but of a stinking odour, always unspotted. 

 In woods. Coed Coch. Oct. 



Pileus several inches across. M.J.B. Poisonous. Name a-nep^a, semen. 

 Of the odour. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 49. Berk. Out. p. 98. C. Hbk. n. 42. 

 Illust. PL 87. Paul. t. 45. 



Gills changing colour, 



67. A. colossus Fr. Pileus brick-colour, date-brown at the 

 sides, when young in the form of a tuber, the margin very closely 

 bent inwards-involute, embracing the constricted part of the stem ; 

 then hemispherical, the still closely inflexed margin whitish, even 

 and smooth at length unfolded, plano-convex and depressed, 

 always very obtuse, repand, 20 cent. (8 in.) and more, broken up 

 into scales, slightly viscid round the margin in wet weather; 

 flesh dry, very hard, remarkably fibrous, 5 cent. (2 in.) thick, 

 everywhere turning to a flesh-brick-red colour when broken. Stem 

 solid, flesh the same throughout and very compact, 7.5-10 cent. 

 (3-4 in.} long and the ovato-bulbous base equally thick, but very 

 much constricted at the apex, where it is only 5 cent. (2 in.) thick, 

 definitely two-coloured; the bulbous part smooth in itself but 

 torn into fibres, brick-tawny ; the constricted part, which is at 

 the first enclosed by the closely involute pileus, floccose and 

 shining white. Gills rounded-free, at first narrow and crowded, 

 white, then broader, more distant, entire, at length 12 mm. ()4 in.) 

 broad, fragile, torn, pallid brick-red. 



When young the tuber-like pileus rests upon a bulb like Cortinarii of sec- 

 tion Scaziri, and emerges from the ground covered over with soil and pine- 

 leaves. At first the stem appears as a deformed tuber, 7.5-10 cent. (3-4 in.) 

 broad, depressed, bearing the pileus obliquely. On account of the stem being 

 oblique, the gills are emarginate-decurrent on its outer side. Odour none. 

 The largest and hardest of all Agarics hitherto found. 



