Order Hymenomtcetes. • Tribe Pileaii. 



Plate XXIL 



AGARICUS SUBLANATUS, s^eri^. 



Series Cortinaria.' Subgenus Inoloma.* 



Spec. Char. Agaricus sublanatus. Tileus from three to four inches broad, fleshy, "at first obtusely cam- 

 panulate, at length very broadly and obtusely umbonate " (Sow.), convex, never fully expanded so as to become 

 plane ; colour variable, yellowish-brown of different shades of intensity, inclining to red or ferruginous, squamules 

 pilose, innate, or silky adpressed, " brownish, reddish, or wldtt " (?) (Sow.). Veil reddish, forming upon the 

 stem a peculiar hose, with several dark eiugulations. GDIs sub-adnate or emarginate in the same Agaric, very 

 irregular, waved and broadly notched, pallid yellowish, at length cinnamon. Spores reddish-ochre. Stem " bulbous, 

 oonico-elongate " (Fries), about three inches high, squamulose, yellowish, pallid, white at the summits. Not 

 bitter nor smelling of radishes, but like mushrooms. 



Agaricus sublanatus, Sowerhy, Fries, Berkeley. 



Hal. In Hampstead Wood, Soroerby. In Holwood, Kent, under birches, Mrs. Hussey. Very rare. 



From the time that Sowerby described this handsome Agaric till Mrs. Hussey fouud it at Holwood, 

 it had not been noticed by any mycologist. Mr. Berkeley recognized the Kentish specimens as that author's 

 A. sublanatus, or their identity might have appeared doubtful, for there are several minor discrepancies. 

 The name sublanatus is not very appropriate, unless Sowerby intended to apply "sub" as meaning 

 " below," in allusion to the stem ; our specimens had the pileus smooth, merely with " silky, closely 

 adpressed, reddish, pilose squamules," and the margin was bordered with minute whitish down, " sub- 

 lanatus " certainly did not apply to that ; his figure represents a much more umbonate and shaggy pileus 

 than ours had. 



Enjojing an opportunity of studjnng this interesting species in situ for two successive seasons, our 

 portrait exactly represents it, as a native of an open site, in a park, immediately under a scantily-foliaged 

 bircli-tree ; the soil a bank of gravel. In Hampstead W^ood the development was probably much more 

 luxuriant, and the shagginess of a fungus is always a variable point not affecting the essential character ; 

 configuration is, however, a different matter, and we never saw an example with the pileus so much ex- 

 panded as in Sowerby's drawing, nor with the sHghtest approach to the umbo he gives it. The stem is 



' From cortina, a veil. Spores reddish-ochre. Veil arachnoid. 



- From \v, ajibre, and Xm^a, a fringe. Veil fugacious, marginal, consisting of free, arachnoid threads. Stem 

 solid, bulbous, fibriUose, more or less diffused into the pileus, fleshy. Pileus fleshy, convex when young, then ex- 

 panded, fibriUose or viscid, regulai-. Substance juicy. Gills emarginato-adnexed, broad, changing colour. Large 

 autumnal fungi growing on the ground. 



