46 AGARICUS. 



Tricholoma. In fir woods. Frequent. Sept.-Oct. 



Taste disagreeable. M.J.B. Spores ellipsoid-sphaeroid, 6 mk. K. Name — 

 vacca, a cow. From the reddish-brown colour. Pers. Syn. p. 293 (exclud- 

 ing synonym Schceff.) Fr. Motiogr. i. p. 65. Hym, Eur. p. 56. Berk. Out. p. 

 100. C. Hbk. n. 54. Illust. PL 60. S. Mycol. Scot. 71. 49. Batsch f. 116. 

 A. rufus. Pers. Ic. and descript. t. 2. f. 1-4. 



83. A. immundus Berk. — Pileus 5 cent. (2 in.) or more broad, 

 dirty white stained with bistre, fleshy, at first convex, minutely 

 silky ; margin inflexed, silky or minutely scabrous and squam- 

 ulose. Stem fibrillose, of the same colour as the pileus. Gills 

 emarginate, marked with transverse lines, somewhat cinereous 

 with a pinkish tinge. 



Casspitose. Every part blackish when bruised. Border deflexed. 



Among short grass on sheep's dung. Rare. Oct. 



Name — iminundtis, dirty, discoloured. Berk. Out. p. 103. C. Hbk. n. 

 72. Illust. PL 6r. S. Mycol. Scot. Supp. Scot. Nat. 1882, p. 213. Fr. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 56. 



84. A. gausapatus Fr. — Pileus 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) broad, 

 grey-ci?iereous, fleshy, somewhat thin, biiUate or obtusely cam- 

 panulate, the fiexiioiis be7it-in margin to9ne7itose-woolly, then ex- 

 panded, repand, tomeiitose with dense, superficial, separating, silky- 

 adpressed fibrils, somewhat woolly. Stem 5 cent. (2 in.) long, 12 

 mm. {Yz in.) and more thick, solid, stout, equal, blunt, \2ix\y-fibril- 

 lose, shinijig white, manifestly furnished with a cortina. Gills 

 emarginate, free, crowded, 4 mm. (2 lin.) broad, grey. 



Allied to A. terreus, but larger, mild, inodorous, the form of the pileus re- 

 markable. 



In grassy woods. Epping Forest. 



Spores 4x6 mk. IV. P. Name — gausapa (yavcra7r-»)s), a shaggy woollen cloth. 

 From the covering of the pileus. Fr. Alojiogr. i. p. 67. Hy7n, Eur. p. 57. 



85. A. terreus Schceff.— Pileus 4-7.5 cent. (iX-3 in-) broad, 

 fuscous, mouse colour, grey, becoming azure-blue, &c., slightly 



fleshy, soft-fragile, ca?npanulate then expanded, umbonate, vil- 

 lous, for the most part floccoso-scaly, sometimes broken up into 

 dark (not white) innate adpressed fibrils, repand when larger; 

 margin at first inflexed, naked ; flesh scissile, white. Stem about 

 5 cent. (2 in.) long, 8-10 mm. (4-5 lin.) thick, solid.^ more rarely 

 at length hollow, equal, becoming even with longitudinally ad- 

 pressed fibrils, white and delicately white pruinose at the apex. 

 Gills remarkably emarginate, so7newhat dista7it, 6 mm. (3 lin.) 

 broad, unequal at the edge, white the7i beco7ning ci7iereous. 



