114 AGARICUS. 



Collybia no wise pulverulent), becoming whitish-fuscous or becoming yel- 

 low, somewhat rooted and fibrillose at the base. Gills adnate, at 

 length separating, crowded, the alternate ones shorter, white. 



Arid, moderately persistent. Not to be confounded with A. cirrhatus, to 

 which it is like, but not allied. 



Among leaves and in grassy places. Uncommon. Sept.-Oct. 



Name ocellus, a little eye. From the eye-like spots. Fr. Monogr. \. p. 

 167. Hym. Eitr. p. 123. Berk. Out. p. 120. C. Hbk. n. 160. Illust. PL 

 147. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 132. Bull. t. 569. _/; i. HP. 



234. A. muscigenus Schum. Wholly shining white. Pileus 

 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.) broad, somewhat membranaceous> pellucid, 

 globoso - hemispherical then flattened, obtuse, even, smooth, 

 withering up, the margin entire and persistent, not revolute. Stem 

 2.5 cent, (i in.) and more long, stuffed (QK account of its thinness), 

 capillary, flexuous, flaccid, smooth and naked, somewhat rooting 

 at the base. Gills adnate, somewhat crowded, linear, the alter- 

 nate ones shorter, edge quite entire. 



Very thin. A. capillaris is easily distinguished by its broader distant gills. 

 Among moss and grass. Coed Coch, 1873, & c * Aug. 



Name muscus, moss; gigno, to bear. Growing on moss. Schum. p. 307. 

 Fr. Monogr. i. p. 168. Hym. Eur. p. 124. B. & Br. n. 1408. Fl. Dan. 

 t. 2023. /. i. Mich. t. 73. /. 4. C. Illust. PL 147. 



SERIES B. 

 IV. TEPHROPHANyE. 



* Gills crowded, sojnewhat narrow. 



235. A. rancidus Fr. Pileus 2.5-5 cent - O" 2 m -) anc ^ more 

 broad, not hygrophanous, lead-colour-black, fuliginous, becoming 

 pale, at first veiled with a whitish, adpressed, silky-pruinose dew, 

 ^\\^Ci^ fleshy-cartilaginous, tough, convex then plane, broadly and 

 obtusely umbonate, even, smooth, viscid when long wetted. Stem 

 7.5-15 cent. (3-6 in.) long, 4 mm. (2 lin.) thick, fistulose, rigid, 

 tense and straight, equal, smooth, even, livid, with a long, fusi- 

 form, villous root. Gills free, crowded, narrow, but ventricose, 

 dark cinereous, somewhat pruinose. 



Strong odour of new meal, somewhat rancid. Var. Pileus 6 cent. (2^ in.) 

 broad, shining, almost black, bullate, repand, depressed round the umbo, and 

 outside this depression encircled with an elevated ridge. Stem 5 cent. (2 in.) 

 long, root short. Gills linear, veined and connected by veins, fuliginous, 

 white pruinose. 



