270 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Agaricus rejpandus, Bull., Champ., t. 423, fig. 2. 



Among grass. 



Pileus 1-2 in. broad, conic, obtuse, at length expanded, 

 very fleshy, the margin incurved and lobed, pale whitish- 

 ochraceous, with a few streaky shades, clothed with a ver}- 

 close, adpressed indistinct siikiness. Gills pale dull-rose, 

 broad in front. Spores round, rose-coloured. Stem Ij in. 

 high, 3 lines thick, white, beautifully adpresso-sericeous, 

 composed of fibrous cells, distinct from those of the pileus. 

 Odour like that of fresh meal. My specimens agree precisely 

 with Bulliard's plant quoted above (Bull., t. 423, f. 2), except 

 that the colour is not so lively. He says expressly that the 

 seminal powder is " rougeatre," which can hardly apply to 

 any species of the subgenus Inocyhe. (Berk.) 



Entoloma placenta. Fr. (fig. 17, p. 236.) 



Pileus 1-2 in. across, convex then expanded, orbicular, 

 even, glabrous, brown, moist in damp weather ; flesh thin, 

 watery, becoming pale ; gills emarginate, adnexed, crowded, 

 rather thick, white then pale flesh-colour ; stem 2-3 in. long, 

 2-3 lines thick, solid, entirely fibrous, equal, fibrillosely 

 striate, brown. 



Agaricus (Entoloma) placenta^ Fries, Epicr., p. 144; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 120; Cke., Illustr., p. 314. 



In damp places. 



Solitary, smell none, taste becoming acrid. Distinguished 

 by the remarkably flattened, umbonate pileus, usually de- 

 jjressed round the umbo and incurved at the margin. Pileus 

 and stem brown. Stem fibrous, sometimes twisted. Smell 

 none, taste becoming acrid. 



Entoloma helodes. Fr. 

 Pileus 2-3 in. across, flesh thin, fragile, becoming some- 

 what plane, umbonate, often depressed round the umbo, even 

 when moist, glabrous, but often somewhat variegated with 

 spots, livid-purplish with a smoky tinge ; margin spreading, 

 sometimes minutely striate ; gills obtusely adnate, or slightly 

 sinuate, 3 lines broad, distinct, rather distant, white then 

 pale flesh-colour ; stem 2-3 in. long, 3 lines thick, equal or 

 slightly thickened at the base, pallid becoming greyish, with 

 grey fibrils, fragile, hollow, or rarely stuffed ; spores sub- 

 globose, coarsely warted, 10 fx diam. 



