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115. A. militaris Lasch. — Pileus 10-17. 5 cent. (4-7 in.) broad, THchoioma. 

 muianion, at tirst gibbous, white floccose at the involute margin, 



then rather plane or depressed, compact, flexuous, rather smooth, 

 viscous, margin even. Stem 11 cent. (4>^ in.) long, as much as 

 2.5 cent, (i in.) thick, solid, squamulose, fibrillose, pallid, some- 

 what bulbous at the base, with thick radical fibrils. Gills emar- 

 ginate, somewhat crowded, whitish, at length livid- spotted, torn. 



Odour and taste unpleasant. Commonly growing in rows or casspitose. 



In woods. Glamis, 1874. Oct. 



Name — miles, a soldier. From its finer appearance as contrasted with A. 

 civilis, as A. eqziestris is a knight among plebeians. Lasch n. 490. Fr. Hytn. 

 Eur. p. 71. B. 6^ Br. n, 1506. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 71. C. Illiist. PI. 169. 



116. A. civilis Fr. — Pileus 7.5 cent (3 in.) broad, becoming 

 pale yellowisli, not changing colour, disc darker, never streaked, 

 truly fleshy, very soft and fragile, convexo-plane, obtuse, even, 

 very smooth, moist, almost viscid, with a separable pellicle j flesh 

 spongy, whitish. Stem 5 cent. (2 in.) and more long, solid, in- 

 ternally s of t^ fragile, attenuated upwards from the thickened base, 



fibrillose or squamulose, whitish. Gills deeply emarginate, abnost 

 free, crowded, 6 mm. (3 lin.) broad, very soft, white the?i beco??ii?tg 

 yellow, or rather becoming pale, unspotted. 



Inodorous. Among the Tricholomata there is no species to which it is 

 rightly allied. The structure is wholly that of A. {Afn.) lenticularis, so that at 

 first sight it might seem to be a ringless form of that species. 



On the ground. Epping. Oct. 



Fries notes that the gills are only accidentally spotted, i.e., when injured by 

 insects or otherwise. Name— rzVw, a citizen. Contrasted with A. militaris. 

 Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 71, Ico7i. t. 42. /. i. A. militaris Mojiogr. i. p. 90. B. 

 6^ Br. Ti. 1507. 



117. A. personatus Fr.— Pileus 7-5-i5 cent. (3-6 in.) broad, 

 livid-flesh-colour, «S:c., very fleshy and thick, hemispherical then 

 convex and flattened, very obtuse, regular, at length also repand, 

 even, smooth, moist in rainy weather, opaque when dry, the 7}iar- 

 gin, which exceeds the gills, at first involute and villoso-prui?iose j 

 flesh at first compact, then spongy-soft, whitish. Stem in the 

 typical form 5 cent. (2 in.) long, about 2.5 cent, (i in.) thick, solid, 

 firm, spongy within, almost of the same colour, 7nore or less bul- 

 bous, becoming violet, wholly pulverule?it with white villous down 

 whe7i young \\\^x\ squamulose; often very short, and not bulbous. 

 Gills rounded then free, crowded, broad, violaceous then flesh- 

 coloured or whitish, or fuscous when old. 



