Order Htmenomycetes. Tribe Fileati. 



Plate XIX. 



AGARICUS AIMATOCHELIS, B^dl^arcl. 



Bloody-cinctwred Agaric. 

 Series Cortinaria.^ Sub-genus Telamonia.^ 



Gen. Cliar. Telamonia ; veil consisting of arachnoid fibres woven into a sub-persistent ring. Stem solid, at 

 length softer within, firm fibrillose. POeus more or less fleshy, the margin thin, eampanulate or convex, then 

 expanded, dry, squamulose or fibrillose. GUIs adiiate or emargiuate, broad, distant, changing colour. Large firm 

 fungi growing on the ground. 



Spec. CJmr. A. aimatochelis. Pileus ft-om four to six inches across, imiform rich cinnamon-brown, iuclining 

 to pallid brick-red, sericeo-fibrillose, obtusely umbonate, margins incurved ; fleshy at the centre, thin towards the 

 margin. Stem solid, from four to six inches high, attenuated upwards, fibrillose, encircled by a red stain at the 

 point where the ring was attached. GUIs adnate, cinnamon. 

 Agaricus aimatochelis, BulUard. 



hsematocheUs, Fries. 



Le Fuseau Rubanier, Paidet. 



Hah. " In beech woods, rare " ; Fries. At Holwood, Kent ; September 1840. New to English Botany. 



This is a most elegant Agaric, and its girdle of sanguine tint, which gained for it the title "Rubamer", 

 of Paulet, is quite a distinctive mark from all others ; many have stains of various hues, left where the ring 

 has been, but these stains are generally caused, either by a deposit of spores, retained by the fragments of 

 the ring itself, or by the remains of the universal curtain forming coloured fibriUee below the point where 

 they were woven into the ring. All these various markings so caused upon tlie stems of Agarics have 

 generally some connexion in colour with the shades which tincture the rest of the plant, but in A. aima- 

 tochelis the red ribbon is the only red thing about it, and whence it derives that hue, and "why" it should 

 be conlined to one narrow band, and neither extended by spot nor shading into the neighbouring texture, is 

 one of those questions to wluch the fitting " because " is fortunately of no great importance, as it is bkely to 

 remain undeclared. " Because " it looks pretty, is quite reason enough to satisfy those who know how much 

 Nature loves to adorn her works, and certainly by giving to the elegant uniformly-tinted Aimatochelis, the 

 relief of a little bright colour, she has added a grace, and proved herself no Quaker. " Because " it is a 

 distinctive mark from some of its congeners, and is to identify it, as useful and valuable, or noxious and 



' From cortina a veil ; spores reddish-oohi-e. Veil arachnoid. ^ p^om rfXn/xMi/, lint. 



