2 2 AGARICUS. 



Leplota, 35. A. cepsestipes Sow. — Pileus 2.5 cent, (i in.) broad, when 



campanulate often higher, white or yellow, rarely becoming fus- 

 cous, someiuhat membranaceous, slightly fleshy only at the disc, 

 at the first obtusely conical then hood-shaped, soon campanulate, 

 umbonate, clothed with delicate, phunose, separati7ig fiocci. Stem 

 at first short, then elongated, 7.5-12.5 cent. (3-5 in.) long, about 

 6 mm. (3 lin.) thick at the base, scarcely exceeding 2 mm. (i lin.) 

 at the apex, fistulose, at the first stuffed with spider-web threads, 

 attenuated from the bulbous base, clothed ivithflocci which 7nay be 

 rubbed off. Ring separating-free, fugacious. Gills free, attenuated 

 at both ends, at length remote (but distinct without a cartilagin- 

 ous collar), very crowded, 4 mm. (2 lin.) broad, white. 



Commonly in a dense band. The flocci on the pileus are the remains of the 

 universal floccose veil. Substance very soft and delicate. From the entire 

 nature and covering of the pileus, it is like a Coprinus drying up. According 

 to Sowerby bright sulphur-yellow. 



On tan and leaves in hothouses. Uncommon. Aug.-Sept. 



Fine specimens of the white form, exactly according with BuUiard's A. creta- 

 ceus have been gathered, B. &f Br. Spores 8x4 mk. W.G.S. ; van cretaceus, 

 5x7 mk. W.P. Name — cepa, onion, stipes, stem. Sow. t. 2. Fr. Mono- 

 gr. i. p. 27. Hynn. Eur. p. 35. Berk. Out. p. 95, B. &' Br. n. 1500*. 

 C. Hbk. n. 30. Illust. PI. 5. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 22. Var. A. A. creta- 

 ceus Bull. t. 374. Grev. t. 333. Fl. Dan. t. ijgS (diminutive). Var. B. A. 

 luteus {Bolt. t. 50?) Wither. \\. p. 233. A. flos sulphuris Schnitz. ap. Sturm 

 31. /. I. 



36. A. licmopliorus B. & Br. — Pileus 2.5 cent, (i in.) broad, 

 lemon-yellow, membranaceous, plane, depressed, deeply sulcate 

 up to the central disc, margin crenate. Stem 9 cent, {y/z in.) 

 long, fistulose, slender, attenuated upwards, 2 mm. (i lin.) thick 

 in the centre, lemon-yellow, tomentose at the base ; ring about 

 half-way up. Gills remote, slightly arched, distant, interstices 

 veined, shining white. 



Occasionally in our hothouses, never in the open air. 



On the ground. Sept. 



Spores 12 mk. long, B. 6^ Br. Name — XtK/u.6?, a winnowing fan, ^epw, to 

 bear. From the sulcate pileus. B. & Br, Linn. Soc. Journ. xi. p. 500. n. 

 1989*. 



**'^* Granulosi. Universal veil sheathing, ^'c. 



37. A. carcharias Pers. — VtIqus Jlesh-coloured, fleshy, convex 

 then plane, umbonate, granulose. Stem stuffed then hollow, 

 somewhat bulbous, squamulose, of the same colour as the pileus. 

 Gills adnexed, shining white. 



