356 Rev. M. J. Berkeley on British Fungi. 



140. A. gambosus, Fr. Syst. Myc. 1. p. 50. Common in 

 exposed pastures in May and June. A. graveolens, Sow., 

 which has been long doubtful, is certainly a synonym of the 

 species before me, as appears from the original drawing, dated 

 May 10, which gives the colouring very correctly. In the 

 plate, unfortunately, one uniform ochraceous tint is given, 

 which ought to have been confined to the centre of the pileus. 

 This, or some nearly allied species, is the St. George's Agaric 

 of Clusius, Hist. p. 264. Dr. Johnston's A. graveolens is pro- 

 bably some species of the same group. 



14 1. A. griseus, Fr. Syst. Myc. I. p. 158. Sherwood Forest. 

 King's ClifTe. 



142. A. integrellus, Fr. Syst. Myc. 1. p. 161. King's ClifTe. 



143. A. Bellies, Johnst. MSS. Pileo sicco, membranaceo, 

 cupulaeformi, ligneo-pallido, lamellis crassis una cum inter- 

 stitiis venosis, decurrentibus, pallidioribus ; stipite tenui, fistu- 

 loso,cartilagineo, supra pallido, deorsum brunneo, basi floccosa 

 adhaerente. On dead stems of the common reed. Gathered 

 by Lord Home, October 6, 1837, at the Hirsel, Berwickshire. 

 Pileus membranaceous, inverted, deeply cyathiform, half an 

 inch broad, smooth, waved and furrowed at the edges, of a 

 wood-brown hue, becoming paler when dry. Gills adnato- 

 decurrent, at least in the inverted pileus, one line broad, 

 rather distant, thick, more or less undulated, wrinkled on the 

 sides and in the interstices with flexuous veins, once or twice 

 divided near the edge, of a dull chalky white. Spores oblong, 

 colourless, pellucid. Stem 1^ inch high, about 1 line thick, 

 fistular throughout, erect, stiff and elastic, smooth, white or 

 very pale wood-brown above, towards the base of a dirty dark 

 brown, becoming paler when dry, when it appears covered 

 with a white mealiness. It is composed of two distinct strata, 

 as will be seen by the figure. Root slightly incrassated, bent 

 and fixed to the matrix by a dense cottony web. 



A very remarkable and graceful species. The inversion of 

 the pileus commences at a very early period, and together 

 with the vein-like gills, gives it somewhat the appearance of a 

 Stylobates, in which genus the pileus is completely obliterated. 

 Its place in the system is near that of A. tricolor, A. & S., 

 A. stellatus, Sow., &c, but its immediate affinities are not evi- 

 dent. It has analogies with several Collybice and the cognate 

 species of Marasmius, as M. erythropus, Fr. The gills are 

 very peculiar. 



The above account is in great measure compiled from some 

 notes kindly transmitted to me, together with a figure, by Dr. 

 Johnston, who has named the species ff in grateful remem- 

 brance of the assistance he has received from the Misses Bell 



