Ordei' IIi'MENOMYCETES. Tribe PileaiL 



Plate XLV. 



AGARICUS GRANULOSUS, 5.A../. 



Small yellow scaly Agaric. 

 Series Leucosportjs. Sub-genus Lepiota.' 



Suh. div. * * * * Veil fixed or fugacious ; gills sub-aduexed. 



Spec. Cliar. Agakicus Granulosus. Pileus from half au inch to an inch broad, iu general dull reddish yellow, 

 but occasionally ferruginous, pink, vermdliou, or white. Fleshy iu the centre, at first convex or obtusely umbonate, 

 at length often plane or depressed, somewhat wrinkled, covered with furfuraceous scales, the remains of the 

 universal veil. GDIs white or yellowish white, fixed to the stem, ventricose, sometimes nearly free in depressed 

 specimens. Stem from one to three inches high, from one to four lines thick, slightly incrassated at the base, when 

 young solid, but in age hollow, with a core occasionally running down from the centre of the pileus, and the base 

 stuffed ; sometimes the stem is slightly compressed, with a subfugacious flocculose ring about the middle, above 

 which it is slightly fibrillose, and beneath it scaly like the pileus, from the same cause, the remains of the universal 

 veil adhering to it. 

 Agakicus granulosus, Batsch, Fries, Berkeley, Persoon. 



ochraceus, Bulllard. 



croceus, Bolton, Soiverby, Withering. 



Hab. Woods, especially of Scotch fir, on heaths among moss, &c., and on the stumps of old fir trees. Sub- 

 gregarious. Autumn. 



Tliose Agarics wliicli are included under the head Lepiota vary much iu stature and general habit ; indeed 

 it could scarcely be supposed that botanical characteristics should exist to place in the same class, members 

 so different from each other when cursorily viewed. The Lepiotes stand between the sub-genus Amanita 

 and the sub-genus Armillaria, all three being under the series Leucosjwrns (white spored). 



It appears advisable to place their distinctive peculiarities clearly before the student. Amanita 

 has two veOs ; one universal, one partial. Lepiota has only one veil ; that being universal. Armillaria has 

 one veil oidy, that being partial ; so that Amanita possessing these characteristics of both the other sub- 



' From XfTTif, a scale. Veil single, universal, closely adhering to and confiucnt with the epidermis, when burst 

 forming a more or less persistent ring towards the middle of the stem ; stem hollow, stufl'ed with more or less densely 

 interwoven arachnoid threads, equal or thickened at the base, fibrillose. Pileus more or less fleshy but not 

 compact, ovate when young, soon campanulate, then expanded and umbonate. Flesh white, soft. Gills unequal, 

 never distant or dccurrent. Colour of the gills white, in some varieties yellow. Persistent autumnal fungi, 

 growing on the ground ; not dangerous. 



