LEUCOSPORI. , 43 



base with purple-reddish flocci, naked at the margin ; flesh almost Tricholoma. 

 whitish, then pallid light-yellow. Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, 

 12 mm. (y% in.) thick, stuffed, somewhat equal, curved, occasion- 

 ally bulbous, sometimes variegated with thin reddish villous down, 

 sometimes almost naked, yellowish-white, scarcely whitish-pruin- 

 ose at the apex. Gills rounded, crowded, thin, light-yellow- 

 whitish, the edge always quite entire, acute, and of the same 

 colour. 



Allied to A. rjdilafis ; in general smaller, leaner, and less handsome. The 

 stem is harder and tougher. It varies with the stem hollow, the gills paUid, 

 and the pileus granulate. 



On rotten wood. Epping. 



Name — variegatus, variegated. Scop. Cam. p. 434, Fr. Monogr. i. p. 

 60. Hym. Eur. p. 53. Fl. Dan. t. 1910. f. 2. A. granulatus Schceff. t. 21. 

 \ Grevillea, vol. xiii. p. 57. 



77. A. luridus Schasff. — Pileus lurid, becoming yellow-cinere- 

 ous, sometimes light-yellow, never rufescent, fleshy, convex then 

 plane, obtuse, somewhat repand, irregularly shaped, absolutely 

 dry, the cuticle easily separati7ig into fibrils, and the pileus itself 

 often rimosely incised. Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, 1-2.5 

 cent. (>2~i ii^-) thick, solid or stuffed, unequal, smooth, white. 

 Gills emarginate, broad, very crowded, watery whitish. 



It differs from A. saponaceus (which is somewhat like it), A. sejunctus, and 

 others which have been interchanged with it, in its mild taste, in its odour of 

 new meal, in the flesh alike of the pileus and stem being soft, absorbing mois- 

 ture, never rufescent, in the cuticle of the pileus not separating into scales, and 

 in the thin crowded gills. 



In woods. Common. Sept.-Oct. 



Spores sphaeroid-eUipsoid, 5 x 3-4 mk. K. ; 5-6 x 3-4 mk. B. Name — 

 luridus, lurid. Schceff. t. 69. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 62. Hym. Eur. p. 54. 

 Berk. Out. p. 99. C. Hbk. n. 51. Illust. PI. 214. Brigant. Neap. t. 7 

 (cuticle of pileus entire). 



78. A. guttatus Schseff. — Pileus 7.5-12.5 cent. (3-5 in.) broad, 

 cinnamon or somewhat pale yellowish, fleshy, convex then 

 flattened, dry, broken up into somewhat granular or floccose 

 squamules, margin remotely sulcate, at first involute, white- 

 floccose ; flesh thick, white. Stem solid, mealy, white. Gills 

 emarginate, decurrent in the form of lines, very crowded, snow- 

 white. 



Somewhat caespitose. Odour and taste bitter, somewhat acrid. From the 

 specimens of Lasch the pileus is rather floccose than granulose. 



In woods. Downton. 1878. 



