3o8 AGARICUS. 



Psaliota. Very striking, 7.5-10 cent. (3-4 in.) high. The pileus and the white stem 



become spotted-blood-red when touched. The stem when young is adpress- 

 edly squamulose beloWj when full grown mealy, becoming smooth. 



In woods. Lilleshall, Salop, &:c. Nov. 



Pileus 10 cent. (4 in.) across; stem 10 cent. (4 in.) high, 2,5 cent, (i in.) 

 thick, B. &= Br. Name — at/xoppot5es (<^A.e^es) veins which discharge blood, 

 haemorrhoids. Kalchbr. Hung. t. 18./. i. Fr. Hyvi. Eur. p. 281. B. df Br. 

 n. 1534. 



** MiNORES. Not used as food, pileus thinly fleshy. 



691. A. comtulus Fr.— Pileus 2.5-4 cent. {i-i}i in.) broad, 

 yellowish-white, slightly fleshy, convex then plane, obtuse, ad- 

 pressedly fibj'illoso-silky, becoming even; flesh thin, soft, of the 

 same colour as the pileus. Stem 5 cent. (2 in.) long, 4-6 mm. 

 (2-3 lin.) thick, hollow, stuffed with floccules when young, some- 

 what attenuated, even, smooth, white, becoming somewhat light 

 yellow. Ring medial, torn, fugacious, of the same colour. Gills 

 rounded-free behind, crowded, soft, broader in ixoxiV, flesh-colour 

 then 7'osc, not fuscous-flesh-colour except when old. 



Very much allied to A. campestris, but constantly distinct in its more beau- 

 tifully coloured gills. 



In woods, &c. Coed Coch, 1880. Autumn. 



Name — comptus, gaily adorned. Fr. Moiiogr. i. /. 407. Hyjit. Eur. p. 

 < 281. Icon, t. \'^o. f. I. B. cr^ Br. n. 1874. 



692. A. echinatus Roth. — Pileus 2.5-5 cent. (1-2 in.) broad, 

 of a peculiar fuliginous colour, slightly fleshy, cainpanulate, ob- 

 tuse, at the 'hxsX. floccoso-pulverulent 2.\\di somewhat continuous, 

 then densely and adpressedly rivuloso-scaly, without striae; flesh 

 thin, whitish. Stem 4-5 cent. (i/4~2 in.) long, 2-4 mm. (1-2 lin.) 

 thick, firm, flstulose, with a lax white arachnoid web internally, 

 otherwise externally and internally ei/inadar-purple, below the 

 ring densely covered over with flocculoso-pulverulent mouse-col- 

 oured sootiness which can be rubbed off, ecjual, naked above the 

 ring. Ring floccoso-membranaceous, externally sprinkled with 



fuliginous dust, soon torn, appendiculate at the margin ; very 

 beautifully striate above, becoming purple-whitish. Gills free, 

 reaching a slightly prominent but little elevated collar, o'owded, 

 narrow, rarely exceeding 2 mm. (i lin.) broad, vcfy beautifully 

 cinfiabar-putple, the edge which is quite entire of the same 

 colour. 



Gregarious, cet'spitose ; odour of cucumber. The soil is rolled together 

 w ith the white mycelium in the form of a ball at the base of the stem. \\' hen 



