54 AGARICUS. 



Tricholoma. Spores sphasroid or ovoid-ellipsoid, 9-11 x 5-7 mk. K, Name inamcenus, 

 unpleasant. From the odour. Fr. Monogr. p. 78. Hym. Eur. p. 64. Icon, 

 t. 38.7. 2. Berk. Out. p. 102. B. & Br. n. 1733*. C. Hbk. n. 65. Illust. 

 PI. 77. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 60. Sow. t. 121, otherwise very distinct, exactly 

 represents its habit. 



** Gills thin, crowded, narrow. 



100. A. cerinus Pers. Pileus 2.5-4 cent. (i-iX in -) broad, 

 dingy wax-colour, or becoming fuscous, fleshy, convex then flat- 

 tened, obtuse and at length depressed, very opaque, very dry, even 

 and becoming smooth ; flesh thin, but firm, white. Stem 2.5 cent. 

 (i in.) long, 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.) thick, stuffed, equal, Jibrilloso- 

 striate, yellow, base smooth (often fuscous). Gills sinuato-ad- 

 nexed, separating, horizontal, plane, very thin and crowded, 2 mm. 

 (i lin.) broad, dark-yellow or wax colour, but the spores wholly 

 white. 



Diminutive, approaching Clitocybce in the structure of the stem, but the 

 gills in properly developed specimens are sinuate. There is one form with the 

 pileus repand, 4 cent. (\y 2 in.) broad; another smaller, scarcely 2.5 cent (i 

 in.) with the stem fuscous. 



Associated with pine. Glamis, 1877, &c. June-July. 



Pileus generally much paler round the margin. Name cera, wax. Wax- 

 coloured. Pers. Syn. p. 321. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 79. Hym. Eur. p. 64. Icon, 

 t. 39.7. i. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 61. C. Illust. PL 95. 



101. A. ionides Bull. Pileus about 5 cent. (2 in.) broad, com- 

 monly violet or lilac, fleshy, campanulato-convex then plane, urn- 

 bonate, even, becoming somewhat smooth, changing colour, margin 

 at the first flocculose. Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, 4-6 mm. 

 (2-3 lin.) thick, stuffed, elastic, attenuated, fibrillose. Gills emar- 

 ginate with a decurrent tooth, crowded, thin, 6 mm. (3 lin.) broad, 

 eroded, white, becoming paler. 



Very changeable in form and colour ; the smaller it is the darker, commonly 

 becoming violet or lilac, when smaller fuscous-purple or reddish-livid, becom- 

 ing pale with age. 



In moist woods and open pastures. King's Cliffe, 1860. Aug. 



Smell not very decided but pleasant ; rather like that of Lactarius theiogalus. 

 B. & Br. According to Bulliard the stem is swollen at the base. Name 

 iov, a violet. Violet -coloured. Bull. t. 533. /. 3. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 65. 

 Syst. Myc. i. p. 107. B. & Br. n. 902. C. Hbk. ?t. 66. Illust. PL 95. 

 A. purpureus Pers. Bolt. t. 41. (a very small form). 



* A. pravus Lasch. Fuscous-reddish. Pileus slightly fleshy, 

 campanulate then expanded, umbonate, silky under a lens. 



