302 AGARICUS. 



Crepidotus. Spores sphaeroid, uniguttate, 5-6 mk. K. Name piano, to make level. 

 Become plane. Pers. Obs. i. p. 8. t. 5. /. 3 (under the name of A. stipticus). 

 Fr. Monogr. i. p. 399. Hym, Eur. p. 276. B. dr" Br. n. 2006. 



677. A. calolepis Fr. Pileus scarcely 12 mm. (*4 in.) broad, 

 slightly fleshy, reniform, convex, almost shell-shaped, dimidiate, 

 sessile on a small villous knot, margined with white behind, 

 beautifully variegated with minute, crowded, rufescent scales ; 

 flesh firm, not gelatinous. Gills concurrent at the base, rounded 

 behind, comparatively broad, at first becoming pallid fuscous, 

 then fuscous-ferruginous. 



Spores fuscous-ferruginous. 



On dead wood. Edinburgh Fungus Show, 1878. Oct. 



Name /caA.6?, beautiful ; ACTUS, a scale. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 276. Icon. t. 

 129. /. 4. B. & Br. n. 1765. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 360. C. Illust. PL 499. b. 



678. A. haustellaris Fr. Pileus 1-2.5 cent - ( 1 A~ 1 in -) broad, 

 pale yellowish-tan, becoming pale, slightly fleshy, almost pellucid, 

 flaccid, exactly lateral, reniform, plane, even, delicately villous ; 

 flesh very thin, watery, pallid-light-yellowish. Stem distinct and 

 almost separate, 4-8 mm. (2-4 lin.) long, 2 mm. (i lin.) and more 

 thick, attenuated -upwards, almost conical, round, villous^ white, 

 somewhat ascending when young, then straight and horizontal. 

 Gills determinate, rounded, somewhat crowded, pallid then 

 fuscous-cinnamon. 



Regular, gregarious, but never csespitose or imbricated. Chiefly remark- 

 able for the somewhat conical stem and almost free gills. The pileus when 

 older is cinnamon, and as if pulverulent with the spores. The stem, which is 

 commonly solid, has sometimes occurred hollow. It has many features in 

 common with A. calolepis, but they differ in more. 



On dead trunks. Rare. 



Name haustus, a drawing water. From the watery flesh. Fr. Monogr. i. 

 p. 399. Hym. Eur. p. 276. Berk. Out. p. 164. B. &> Br. n. 2007. C. Hbk. 



354- 



679. A. rubi Berk. Pileus 6-12 mm. (tf-% in.) broad, yellow- 

 ish or livid-grey, pallid when old, fleshy, clothed with very minute 

 crystalline meal. Stem short, incurved, solid, strigose at the 

 base. Gills adnato-decurrent, slightly ventricose, rather distant, 

 greyish then umber, edge pulverulent. 



Spores umber. The pileus, which is at first regular with a short stem, 

 gradually becomes excentric and resupinate. The stem is at first straight 

 then incurved, externally mealy, adhering by a little fine down. 



On dead bramble, &c. Uncommon. Aug.-Oct. 

 The habit is wholly that of forms of A. depluens, but distinguished by the 



