38 AGARICUS. 



Tricholoma. Gregarious ; odour pleasant ; taste mild. Habit in a measure that of Hy- 

 grophoriis eburneits. Doubtless edible. 



In woods, beech, &c. Frequent. Sept.-Oct. 



Name — 7-esplendens, shining brightly. Fr. Monogr. i. f. 55. Hyjii. Eur. 

 p. 49. Icon. t. 29. f. I. B. 6^ Br. n. 1337. 5. Mycol. Scot. n. 40. C. 

 Illust. PI. 55. 



66. A. spermaticus Fr. White. — Pileus somewhat fleshy, 

 convex then flattened, obtuse, repand, smooth, viscous (shining 

 when dry), margin at first be?it i7i'wards, naked. Stem stuff"ed 

 then hollow, elongated, twisted, even. Gills emarginate, some- 

 what distant, eroded. 



Like A. Col2i7?ibetta, but of a stinking odour, always unspotted. 



In woods. Coed Coch. Oct. 



Pileus several inches across. M.J.B. Poisonous. Name — o-Trep/xa, semen. 

 Of the odour. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 49. Berk. Out. p. 98. C. Hbk. n. 42. 

 Illust. PL 87. Paul. t. 45. 



■** Gills changing colour, &^c. 



67. A. colossus Fr. — Pileus brick-colour, date-brown at the 

 sides, when young in the form of a tuber, the margin very closely 

 bent inwards-involute, embracing the constricted part of the stem ; 

 then hemispherical, the still closely inflexed margin whitish, even 

 and smooth — at length unfolded, plano-convex and depressed, 

 always very obtuse, repand, 20 cent. (8 in.) and more, broken up 

 into scales, slightly viscid round the margin in wet weather; 

 flesh dry, very hard, remarkably fibrous, 5 cent. (2 in.) thick, 

 everywhere tiirjting to a flesh-brick-red colour when broken. Stem 

 solid, flesh the same throughout and very compact, 7.5-10 cent. 

 (3-4 in.) lo7ig and the ovato-bnlboiis base equally thick, but very 

 much constricted at the apex, where it is only 5 cent. (2 in.) thick, 

 definitely two-coloured; the bulbous part smooth in itself but 

 torn into fibres, brick-tawny ; the constricted part, which is at 

 the first enclosed by the closely involute pileus, floccose and 

 shining white. Gills rounded-free, at first narrow and crowded, 

 white, then broader, more distant, entire, at length 12 mm. {% in.) 

 broad, fragile, torn, pallid brick-red. 



When young the tuber-like pileus rests upon a bulb like Cortinarii of sec- 

 tion Scauri, and emerges from the ground covered over with soil and pine- 

 leaves. At first the stem appears as a deformed tuber, 7.5-10 cent. (3-4 in.) 

 broad, depressed, bearing the pileus obliquely. On account of the stem being 

 oblique, the gills are emarginate-decurrent on its outer side. Odour none. 

 The largest and hardest of all Agarics hitherto found. 



