114 AGARICUS. 



Collybia no wise pulverulent), becoming whitish-ficscous or becoming yel- 

 low, somewhat rooted and fibrillose at the base. Gills adnata, at 

 length separating, crowded, the alternate ones shorter, white. 



Arid, moderately persistent. Not to be confounded with A. cirrhatus, to 

 which it is hl^^e, but not allied. 



Among leaves and in grassy places. Uncommon. Sept.-Oct. 



Name — ocellus, a. little eye. From the eye-like spots. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 

 167. Hym. Eur. -p. 123. Berk. Out. p. 120. C. Hbk. ?i. 160. Illusi. PI. 

 147. S. Mycol. Scot. 71. 132. Bull. t. 569. yC i. H—P. 



234. A. muscigenus Schum. Wholly shining white. — Pileus 

 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.) broad, soiJiewhat menibi'anaceous, pellucid, 

 globoso - hemispherical then flattened, obtuse, even, smooth, 

 withering up, the margin entire and persistent, not revolute. Stem 

 2.5 cent, (i in.) and more long, stuffed {oxv account of its thinness), 

 capillary, flexuoiis, flaccid, smooth and naked, somewhat rooting 

 at the base. Gills adiiate, somewhat crowded, linear, the alter- 

 nate ones shorter, edge quite entire. 



Very thin. A. capillaris is easily distinguished by its broader distant gills. 

 Among moss and grass. Coed Coch, 1873, ^^' Aug. 



Name — muscus, moss; gigiio, to bear. Growing on moss. Schum. p. 307. 

 Fr. Monogr. i. p. t68. Hym. Eur. p. 124. B. &= Br. 11. 1408. Fl. Dau . 

 t. 2.022- f. I. Mich. t. 73./. 4. C. Illust. PI. 147. 



SERIES B. 



IV. — Tephrophan^. 



* Gills crowded, somewhat na?'row. 



235. A. rancidus Fr. — Pileus 2.5-5 cent. (1-2 in.) and more 

 broad, not hygrophanous, lead-colour-black, fuliginous, becoming 

 pale, at first veiled with a W'hitish, adpressed, silky-pr7iijiose dew, 

 slightly fleshy-cartilaginous, tough, convex then plane, broadly and 

 obtusely nmbonate, even, smooth, viscid when long wetted. Stem 

 7.5-15 cent. (3-6 in.) long, 4 mm. (2 \\xv^\\\\Q\i, flstulose, rigid, 

 tense and straight, equal, smootli, even, livid, with a long, fusi- 

 form, villous root. QiHW.^ free, crowded, 7iarrow, hut ventricose, 

 dar^ cinereo7ts, somewhat pruinose. 



»S'/rc';zo- odour of new meal, somewhat rancid. Var. Pileus 6 cent. (2^ in.) 

 broad, shining, almost black, buUate, repand, depressed round the umbo, and 

 outside this depression encircled with an elevated ridge. Stem 5 cent. (2 in.) 

 long, root short. Gills linear, veined and connected by veins, fuliginous, 

 white pruinose. 



