66 AGARICUS. 



Tricholoma. Spores ellipsoid-sphaeroid, 7-8 x 5-6 mk. K. Name — humilis, low. 

 Dwarf in -etature. Fr. Monogr. i. /. 95. Hym. Eur. p. 75. Berk. Out. p. 

 106. C. Hbk. 71. 79. Illust. PL 99, 263 A. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 78. Buxb. 

 Cent. iv. t. 32. A. blandus Berk. Eng. El. p. 20. Var. blandus C. Illust. 

 PL 263. B. 



126. A. exscissus Fr. — Pileus 2.5 cent, (i in.) broad, mouse- 

 colour or fiiscous-cinereoiis, not changing colour when dr}'-, but 

 shining, slightly fieshy, cainpamilate when young, soon plane, with 

 a prominent umbo, even, smooth ; flesh thin, white. Stem 2.5-5 

 cent. (1-2 in.) long, 2-4 mm. (1-2 lin.) thick, solid, thin, wholly 

 equal, polished, very smooth, slightly shining, shining white. 

 Gills emarginate, crowded, linear, not beyond 2 mm. (i lin.) 

 broad, shining white. 



Very regular, in dry weather sprinkled with the pulverulent veil, but never 

 silky. Very closely allied to A. hu7?iilis, &c. , although by habit and thinness 

 it appears at first sight to be widely removed from them. 



In pastures, &c. Cromer, 1882. May. 



Name — excindo, to tear out. Perhaps in the same sense as excisus. Of 

 the gills. Er. Monogr. i. p. 95. Hym. Eur. p. 75. Icon. t. 44./. 2. C. Illust. 

 PL 171. 



127. A. subpulvemlentus Pers. — Pileus about 4 cent. {lYz in.) 

 broad, becoming livid when fresh, fleshy, convex then plane or 

 depressed, even, with injiate pruinose dew, beco??ii?tg hoary white, 

 the slight margin, which exceeds the gills, inflexed. Stem 5 cent. 

 (2 in.) long, 6 mm. (3 lin.) thick, solid, equal, smooth, sojnewhat 

 striate, here and there ascending, under a lens obsoletely pruinate 

 at the apex. Gills rounded (without a tooth), crowded, narrow, 

 white. 



Firm ; flesh hygrophanous. The pileus is not occasionally pulverulent as in 

 previous species, though it becomes hoary with innate pruina. 



In pastures and w^oods. Frequent. Aug.-Oct. 



Spores 3x4 mk. W.G.S.; pruniform, granular, 8x9 mk. Q. Name — sub, 

 and pulvis, dust. Somewhat powdered. Pers. Myc. Eur. 3. /. 221. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 76. Berk. Out. p. 107. C. Hbk. n. 80. Illust. PL 219. S. Mycol. 

 Scot. n. 79. Hussey ii. t. 39. 



■^■^ Gills becoming violet, grey, fuliginous. 



128. A. sordidus Fr. — Pileus 2.5-7.5 cent. (1-3 in.) broad, livid- 

 lilac becomi7ig violet-iuscous or violet-Jlesh-colour when young, 

 changing colour when old, somewhat fleshy, campanulato-convex 

 then plane or depressed, somewhat umbonate, smooth ; margin 

 w^hen full grown slightly striate. Stem about 5 cent. (2 in.) long, 

 6 mm. (3 lin.) and more thick, stuffed, pliant, commonly thickened 



