Order Htmenomycetes. Tribe Pileati. 



Plate XXX. 



AGARICUS CINNAMOMEUS, z... 



Cinnamon-flavoured Agaric. 

 Series Cortinaria.^ Sub-genus Dermocybe.'^ 



Geu. Char. Deemocybe. VeQ diy, arachnoid, very fugacious. Stem not truly bulbous, fibriUose, stuffed 

 when young. Pileus clothed with fibrillae, rarely with gluten. Gills unequal, rather broad, close. 



Spec. Char. A. ClNN.4.M0MEtis. Pileus rich cinnamon-colour, two or three inches broad, slightly fleshy, silky, 

 tibrillose, convex when young, then obtusely umbonate, nearly plane, but the margins always slightly incurved, thin 

 iuid often splitting. GiUs adnatc, close, unequal, broad, ventricose, argillaceous cinnamon-colour when young, then 

 f(nTugiuous from the spores. Stem from two to three inches high, slender, equal, flcxuous, stuffed, (in age hollow,) 

 tibrillose, yellowish-einnamon, the base rufous (never white). Flesh compact, yellowisli, smell pleasant, flavour aro- 

 matic like cinnamon. Esculent. 

 Agaricus cinuamomeus, Lwiiaiis, Witherbuj, Greville, Berkeley, Fries, Persooii. 



Hab. Plantations and heathy woods ; rare in the South of England ; under Firs in peat soil, Keston, Kent. 

 End of summer and autumn. 



Agaricus cinnamometis does not owe its distinctive appellation to its colour alone, otherwise tlie liand- 

 some A. aimatocJielis miglit have contested the title with it. Indeed the colour of the latter more closely 

 resembles the spice, than does that of the true A. cinnamomeus, which has a tinge of deep yellow pervading 

 it, the expressed juice being of that hue ; and it will not require a very large organ of colour to see, that 

 canella, or cinnamon, has no yellow whatever entering into its composition. A variety is mentioned by Tries 

 having sanguine gills, and Withering calls them " deep tawny-red ; " so that the Agaric Mr. Stackhouse de- 

 scribed and which he found in Cornwall, appears to have been this " semi-sanguineous." In Scotland, according 

 to Dr. Greville, A. ciimamometis is frequent ; we found it once only at Keston, and those specimens accorded 

 exactly with Dr. GreviUe's description of the northern Fungus, and with that of Krombholz, not being so 

 red as Withering states. Krombholz's term " argillaceous cinnamon " describes the hue of the young gills very 

 exactly, but when stained by the red-ochraceous spores, they are darker. Tlie peculiar smeU and flavour of 

 cinnamon possessed by this Agaric in a fresh state, (we are not aware whether it retains it when dried,) is so 

 powerful, and so exactly like that of the spice, that it appears extraordinary it has not been generally 



' From Cortina, a veil ; spores reddish-ochre. Veil arachnoid. 

 - From Sepfia, skin or membrane, and kij/3?), a head. 



