216 FUNGUS-FLORA, 



Agai'icus radicosus, 'BulWsiTdj ChaiR-p., t. 160; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 142; Cke., Illustr., pi. 361. 



Near to stumps, in woods. Known by the attenuated, 

 rooting stem, free gills, and strong scent. 



ISmell strong, rather sweet, grateful, taste peculiar. 

 Solitary or gregarious, not caespitose. Stem solid, firm, but 

 S]i(>ngy within, 3-4 in. long, ^ in. thick, white, incrassated 

 at the base and fusiformly rooting ; below the distant, entire, 

 rather erect ring, concentrically squamose, squamules erect, 

 floccose ; apex mealy. Pileus fleshy, convex then plane, 

 regular, naked and even, almost dry, 3-5 in. broad, almost 

 clay-colour, then from the spores of superposed specimens, 

 spotted with rufous. Flesh fairly thick, white. Gills 

 rounded behind, almost free, very much crowded, 3 lines 

 broad, pallid, then, like the spores, rufo-ferruginous. (Fries.) 



Pholiota pudica. Fr. 



Pileus 1-3 in. across, fleshy, convex then expanded or 

 even sometimes depressed, obtuse, even, dry, glabrous, white 

 or slightly tinged with tawny ; gills rounded behind, ad- 

 iiexed, ventricose, 2 lines broad, whitish then tawny; stem. 

 1-2 in. long, 2-5 lines thick, straight or most frequently 

 incurved and ascending, equal, even, white, solid ; ring 

 superior, spreading, white, persistent ; spores elliptical, 6-7 

 X 3-5 /x. 



Agaricus (^Pholiota) piidicus, Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 218 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 142; Cke., Jllustr., pi. 362. 



Agaricus alhus, BuUiard, Champ., t. 597, f. 2, E.S. 



On trunks of elder and other trees. 



Simple or caespitose ; stem sometimes excentric and 

 curved at the base. According to Bulliard's figure quoted 

 above, the pileus is pruinose at the disc. 



Pholiota leochroma. Cooke. 



Pileus li-2J in. across, fleshy, convex then plane, at 

 length depressed, soft, smooth, not shining, tawny; gills 

 adnate, rounded behind, slightly ventricose, 2-3 lines broad, 

 pallid then cinnamon-colour; stem 3-4 in. long, 3 lines 

 thick, nearty equal, even, solid, whitish, ring persistent, 

 superior, tawny ; spores profuse. 



Agaricus (Pholiota^ ieocliromus, Cke., Journ. Bot. (18 63)', 

 t. 3,'f. 3; Cke., Hdbk., p. 143; Cke., Illustr., pi. 363. 



