128 AGARICUS. 



umbonate, striate when moist, even when dry. Stem 7.5 cent. (3 

 in.) long, fistulose, equal, somewhat filiform, flexile, even, smooth, 

 fibrilloso-rooted at the base. Gills adnate, ascending, crowded, 

 narrow, distinct, alternate. 



Always scattered, not ccespitose. Sometimes becoming light-yellowish on 

 the disc. Whitened forms of other species must be carefully separated from 

 it. Var. pulcliella, Fr. Icon. t. 79. f. 3 ; pileus much thinner with a prominent 

 umbo, gills broader at the base, somewhat distant. Typically csespitose, 

 growing on wood. 



In woods, chiefly among pine-leaves. Common. July-Sept. 



Spores sphasroid-ellipsoid, 4-5x3-4 mk. K.; 3 x 6 mk. W.G.S. Name 

 lac, milk. Milk-white. Pers. Syn. p. 394. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 205. Hym. 

 Eur.p. 135. Berk. Out. p. 123. C. Hbk. n. 178. Illust. PL 159. S. Mycol. 

 Scot. n. 149. Fl. Dan. t. 1845. / * A - nanus Bull. t. 363. /. N. O. Buxb. 

 C. iv. t. 31. /. 3. 



III. RIGIPEDES. Stem rigid, 



265. A. cohserens Fr. Pileus about 2.5 cent, (i in.) broad, 

 cinnamon or umber-tawny, becoming pale, slightly fleshy, cam- 

 panulate, obtuse, even, smooth, but soft to the touch and some- 

 what velvety in appearance, margin straight and at the first ad- 

 pressed to the stem. Stems 10-12.5 cent. (4-5 in.) high, 4 mm. 

 (2 lin.) thick, casspitoso-fasciculate, fistulose, very rigid, almost 

 horny, equal, even, smooth, shining, bay-brow?i upwards and whit- 

 ish at the very apex, date-brown below and glued together at the 

 base with white (as if heterogeneous) villous down. Gills rounded 

 behind, somewhat free, distant, commonly connected by veins, 

 very broad, white then becoming pale. 



As regards the stem it approaches the Marasmii, M. alliaceus, e.g. , but the 

 gills are wholly those of Myccna, nearest to those of^. galericulatus. Pileus 

 striate when damp. 



On bramble, among pine-leaves, &c. Batheaston, &c. Feb. 



It has much affinity with A. balaninus Berk. ; but that has the margin of 

 the gills purple. They have, however, the same fulvous bristles on the surface. 

 B. & Br. The individual stems rarely come in contact, but are joined to- 

 gether by the shaggy down. Name cohczreo, to stick together. From the 

 stems cohering. Fr. Monogr. i. /. 207. Hym. Eur. p. 137. Icon. t. 80. /. i. 

 B. & Br. n. 1212, 1929*. 



266. A. proliferus Fr. Pileus slightly fleshy, campanulato- 

 expanded, dry, the broad umbo darker (fuscous), slightly striate 

 and at length sulcate or rimosely split at the margin (pale-yellow- 

 ish or becoming fuscous-tan). Stem firm, rigid, smooth, shin- 



