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AGARICUS. 



Stropharia. umbo, minutely rivulose, adorned with superficial evanescent 

 snow-white scales; cuticle not peeling off. Stem 7.5 cent. (3 in.) 

 long, 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.) thick, hollow, cylindrical, snow-white, 

 pulverulent above, brownish with silky transverse scales below. 

 Ring superior, deflexed. Gills adnate, sending a line down the 

 stem, but not truly decurrent, pallid then brown, transversely 

 striate. 



Spores dark brown. Allied apparently to A. capiit-Meduste. 

 analogy with A. cegerita, &c. 



On fir-stumps. Rare. Sept.-Nov. 



Name after Archibald Jerdon. B. & Br. n. 913. t. 14. /. 2. 

 393. S. Mycol. Scot. ?i. 376. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 289. 



It has a close 



C. Hbk. n. 



Hyphoioma. Siibgenus XXXI. HYPHOLOMA (v(f)-n, web ; AO^O, fringe). 

 Fr. Syst. Myc. i. p. 287. Hymenophore continuous with the stem. 



Veil woven into a web which adheres 

 to the margin of the pileus. Pileus 

 more or less fleshy, the margin at the 

 first incurved. Gills adnate or sin- 

 uate. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 290. 



Hyphoioma corresponds with 

 TricJwloma, Entoloma, and Hebe- 

 loina. The veil which is woven in- 

 to a spidery web does not form a 

 ring. Ccespitose, growi?ig on wood. 

 The species are not edible, the tough 

 ones being bitter, and the fragile 

 ones almost devoid of flesh. 



* Fasciculares (A. fascicularis}. Colour 



XXXII. Agaricus (Hyphoioma) of the tough, smooth, dry (except A. silacens) 

 fascicnlaris. One-fourth natural pileus bright, not hygrophanous. 

 size. ** Viscidi (viscidus, viscid). Pileus naked, 



viscous. 



*** Velutini (A. velutinus). Pileus silky with innate fibrils or streaked. 

 **** Flocculosi (fioccus, a lock of wool). Withjftoccose, superficial separat- 

 ing scales. 

 '**#** Appendiculati (A. appendiculatits}. Pileus smooth, hygrophanous. 



* FASCICULARES. Colour of the tough, smooth, dry (except 

 A. silaceus'} pileus bright, not hygrophanous. 



708. A. silaceus Pers. Pileus 7.5 cent. (3 in.) broad, orange- 

 rufous, fleshy, convex, viscous, silky and whitish round the 



