74 AGARICUS. 



Ciitocybe. 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.) thick, stuffed then hollow, equal, smooth, red- 

 dish, commonly white-villous at the base. Gills truly decurrent, 

 slightly distant, 3 mm. (i>< lin.) broad, somewhat arcuate, glitter- 

 ing orange and reddish. 



Odour none. The colours of the plant in its full vigour are so splendid and 

 intense, glittering between red and orange, that the art of painting cannot 

 produce a proper combination of colours to represent it. They become pale 

 when the plant is old and dry, and pass into light yellowish. 



Among larch-leaves. Penicuik. 



Name — venustus, beautiful. Most beautiful. Fr. Monogr. ii. /, 289. Hyrn. 

 Eur. p. 84. Icon. t. 50. f. 2. C. Illust. PL 265. 



143. A. subalutaceus Batsch. — Pileus 2.5-5 cent. (1-2 in.) 

 broad, beconii7ig pale-ta7i, at length becoming pale, whitish, fleshy, 

 soft, tough, convex then flattened, obsoletely umbonate or de- 

 pressed, smooth. Stem 2.5-5 cent. (1-2 in.) long, 4-6 mm. (2-3 

 lin.) thick, stuffed, internally spongy, elastic, equal or slightly 

 thickened and here and there curved-ascending at the base, naked, 

 becovmtg pale straw-colour. Gills adnate, then somewhat decur- 

 rent, distant, broad, simple, pallid. 



Odour, like that oi A. odorus, of anise, but weaker, sometimes obsolete. Its 

 stature is that of A. venustissimus, but firmer and with a longer stem. 



Under holly. Oxton Exeter, 1875. Nov. 



Smell like that o{ A. putidus and A. rancidus, peculiar. B. & Br. Name 

 — sub, and aluta, soft leather dressed with alum. Somewhat of the colour of 

 tanned leather. Batsch f. 194. Fr. Monogr. i. /. 107. Hyyn. Eur. p. 85. B. 

 &= Br. 71. 1509. 



**** Pileiis green, becoming pale. 



144. A. odorus Bull.— Pileus 7.5 cent. (3 in.) broad, greenish, 

 fleshy, convex then flattened, obtuse or obsoletely umbonate, regu- 

 lar or repand, even, smooth, moist in rainy weather, the margin, 

 which is at first infiexed, pubescent ; flesh not thick, dingy white. 

 Stem 5 cent. (2 in.) and more long, 6-8 mm. (3-4 lin.) thick, 

 stuffed, rarely equal, sometimes shorter, firmer, and somewhat bul- 

 bous, sometimes longer and more slender (not thickened at the 

 base), flexuous, at first flocculoso-fibrillose, soon naked, commonly 

 white villous at the base. Gills adnato-decurrent, slightly distant, 

 broad (broader than the flesh of the pileus), quite entire, commonly 

 paler than the pileus. 



Tough ; changeable in stature, varying in colour between pallid green and 

 verdigris-grey, commonly of one colour, sometimes, however, the gills are white ; 

 otherwise very easily distinguished by its pleasant odour of anise, chiefly when 

 dried ; sometimes somewhat casspitose. 



