lOO AGARICUS. 



Collybia. On account of the rigid cuticle the stem is often spUt into cracks forming 



revolute flaps. Commonly densely caespitose, very various in stature and size, 

 but always firm, tough. 



On old stumps, &c. Common. July-Nov. 



Spores 6x3 mk. W.G.S.; 4-5x2-4 mk, B. The taste is pleasant, so it 

 may perhaps be edible. Name—/usus, a spindle ; pes, a foot. Spindle- 

 stemmed. Bull. t. 106, 516./".. 2. Fr. Monogr. \. p. 149. Hyni. Eur. p. in. 

 Berk. Out. p. 115. t. 5./". 5. C. Hbk. n. 140. Illust. PI. 141. S. Mycol. Scot. 

 n. 112. Sow. t. 129. Price f. 85. Hussey ii. t. 48. Kroinbh. t. 42./". 9-1 1. 

 Fl. Dan. t. 1607. Hoffm. Ic. anal. t. 4. A. crassipes Schceff. t. 87, 88. 



* A. cedematopus Sch^ff. — Pileus rufous-date-brown, con- 

 ical then becoming plane, pulverule7itj stem stout veiitricose, 

 fibrillose, pulverulent j gills pallid. 



Somewhat caespitose. On trunks. Glamis, 1883. Name — oiSij/aa, a swel- 

 ling ; TTow?, a foot. With swollen stem. Schczff. t. 259. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 

 112. B. b^ Br. n. 1995. S. Mycol. Scot. Supp. Scot. Nat. 1885,/. 21. A. 

 fusiformis Btill. t. 76. A. bulbosus Pall. Ross i. t. g.f. 2. 



■^■^ Gills crowded, narrow. 



200. A. maculatus A. & S. — Pileus 7.5-12.5 cent. (3-5 in.) 

 broad, whitish, here and there guttate with paler spots and com- 

 monly spotted-rufesce7it, fleshy, commonly very compact, convexo- 

 plane, in no wise lax, obtuse, repand, even, smooth ; margin thin, 

 at first involute, somewhat naked. Stem 7.5-10 cent. (3-4 in.) 

 long, 1-2.5 cent. {Yz-i in.) thick, hard, commonly stuffed, some- 

 times however hollow, externally cartilaginous, somewhat ve7itri- 

 cose (flexuous when more slender), striate, white, here and there 

 spotted-rufous, base attenuated rooted and blunt. Gills emargin- 

 ato-free, very crowded, linear, scarcely ever 4 mm. (2 lin.) broad, 

 becoming pale-white. 



The colour of the pileus is at first white, then spotted rubiginous, and at 

 length occasionally wholly rufescent. Slightly acid. 



In woods, chiefly pine and beech. Common. July-Nov. 



Spores 6 mk. W.G.S. ; 6x5 mk. W.P. ; 4-6 mk. B. Name — macula, a 

 spot. Spotted. Alb. ^ Schw. p. 186. Fr. Monogr. \. p. 150. Hym. Eur. p. 

 112. Berk. Out. p. 115. C. Hbk. n. 141. Hlust. PI. 142. S. Mycol. Scot. 

 n. 113. Hussey ii. /. 60. A. carnosus Sow. t. 246. Var. immaculatus C. 

 Hlust. PI. 221 ? 



201. A. distortus Fr. — Pileus almost 7.5 cent. (3 in.) broad, 

 bay-brown, becoming pale but not hygrophanous, fleshy, thin, 

 convex then expanded, umbonate, very lax, even, smooth. Stem 

 7.5 cent. (3 in.) long, scarcely 12 mm. (X in.) thick, and wholly 

 attenuated upwards from the tomentose base, fragile, externally 

 cartilaginous, internally spongy, soon hollow, contorted, sulcate, 



