322 AGARICUS. 



Hyphoioma. verulent at the apex. Veil appendiculate at the margin of the 

 pileus, squamulose, white. Gills rounded-adnexed, ventricose, as 

 much as 8 mm. (4 lin.) broad, arid, fragile, grey then black-fuscous t 

 edge whitish. 



When young there are commonly superficial, -white, easily separating scales 

 on the pileus. Larger than A. Candolleamis, &c., gregarious, not casspitose, 

 very fragile. 



In mountain wood. Rannoch. 



Name cascus, old, primitive. With the appearance of age. Fr. Monogr. 

 i. p. 426. Hym. Eur. p. 294. B. 6 Br. n. 1537. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 386. 



***** APPENDICULATI. Pileus smooth, hygrophanous. 



720. A. lanaripes Cke. Pileus 4-7. 5 cent. (1^-3 in.) broad, 

 pallid, disc often tawny or brownish, rather fleshy, margin thin, 

 campanulate then expanded, hygrophanous, squamose with super- 

 ficial scales from the breaking up of the cuticle ; veil attached in 

 fugacious patches. Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, white, hollow, 

 fragile, somewhat fibrillose, tomentose at the base. Gills reach- 

 ing the stem, crowded, whitish then purplish-brown. 



Somewhat caespitose. The margin of the pileus is purplish with a shade of 

 pink derived from the dark gills beneath, the whole plant becoming dark 

 brown on decay. The stem has white radiating hairs at the base. The gills 

 are not ventricose. 



On soil in conservatories. Rare. July. 



Name lana, wool ; pes, a foot. Woolly-stemmed. Cooke in Seem. Journ. 

 1866, p. 63. t. 3. /. 2. Hbk. n. 410. /. i./. 3. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 387. Fr. 

 Hym. Eur. p. 295. 



721. A. Candolleanus Fr. Pileus 5-10 cent. (2-4 in.) broad, date- 

 brown then becoming white, vertex somewhat ochraceous, some- 

 what fleshy, acorn-shaped then campanulate, soon convex and at 

 length flattened, obtuse and unequal, smooth, even ; flesh thin, 

 white. Stem 7.5 cent. (3 in.) long, 4-8 mm. (2-4 lin.) thick, fistu- 

 lose, solid at the base, somewhat thickened, fibrillose, white, striate 

 at the apex. Veil in the form of a cortina, appendiculate, white, 

 at length becoming fuscous. Gills rounded-adnexed, then separ- 

 ating, crowded, violaceous then fuscous-cinnamon, the edge at 

 the first whitish. 



Readily distinguished from neighbouring species by the gills being at first 

 beautifully dark violaceous, never flesh-coloured. Densely caespitose, fragile, 

 very hygrophanous. 



On stumps and on the ground. Frequent. Aug.-Oct. 



Pileus splitting at the margin and finally recurved, W.G.S. Name after 



