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 126 AGARICUS. 



Mycena. In woods. Coed Coch, iSSo. Autumn. 



It is doubtful if this is anything but one of the many forms of A. furus. 

 Spores 6x4 mk. TF./^. Name— i/^evSo?, false. Spurious yi. ^z^rz^rj. Grevillea, 

 vol. X. f. 147. C. Illust. PI. 158. 



259. A. zephirus Fr. — Pileus 2.5 cent, (i in.) broad, livid-red- 

 dish, white-flesh-colour, the disc occasionally becoming fuscous, 

 not hygrophanous, somewhat membranaceous, diaphanous, cam- 

 panulate then convex, obtuse, striate to the middle, smooth. 

 Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, 2-4 mm. (1-2 lin.) thick, fistulose, 

 equal or slightly attenuated upwards, round, slightly striate, when 

 young throughout or at least at the apex ivhite-sqiianiulose, at 

 length naked, riffesce?it, incurved and woolly at the base. Gills 

 adnate, somewhat decurrent with a small tooth, broad, but 7iot 

 ventricose, at length separating, widely connected by veins, in 

 groups of 2-4, white. 



Gregarious, rigid, fragile, inodorous. Its habit is in a measure that of A. 

 purus, but it is scarcely rightly allied to that species ; rather allied to A. atro- 

 albus. 



On decaj^ed fir wood. Glamis, 1876. Dec. 



Name ^i^vpa%, the west wind. Meaning not apparent. Fr. Mo?20gr. i. p. 

 202. Hym. Eur. p. 133. Icon. t. 78. f. 6. B. hf Br. n. 1640. S. Alycol, 

 Scot. n. 146. C. Illust. PL 158. 



260. A. Adonis Bull. — Pileus 6-8 mm. (3-4 lin.) high and broad, 

 rose-red, &c., somewhat membranaceous, campanulate, very small 

 in proportion to the stem, minutely and almost obsoletely papillate, 

 even, smooth, slightly pellucid-striate round the margin ; flesh 

 very thin, deeper in colour. Stem 5 cent. (2 in.) long, 12 mm. 

 {Yz in.) thick, fistulose, filifoj^m., Jiexiioiis, equal, even, smooth, 

 shiniiig white., pellucid, in no wise viscid. Gills iirtcinato-adnexed, 

 ascending, very thin, narrow, flesh-coloured or white. 



Much smaller and thinner than A. purus, (S:c. According to Bulliard it is 

 equally variable in colour as A. purtis {A. roseus Bull.) A scarlet form has 

 been noted. 



In woods. Uncommon. Oct.-Nov. 



White, yellowish, orange, or green. M.J.B. Name — Adojiis, the beloved 

 of Venus. From its beauty. Bull. t. 560. /. 2. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 202. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 134. Berk. Out. p. 123. B. df Br. n. 1849 (scarlet form). C. Hbk. 

 n. 175. Illust. PI. 185. S. My col. Scot. ?i. 147. 



261. A. lineatus Bull. — Pileus 6-10 mm. (3-5 lin.) high and 

 broad, sometimes larger, commonly becoming light yellow but vary- 

 ing whitish, remarkably membranaceous, hood-shaped then cam- 

 panulate, obtuse, wholly lineato-sulcate, smooth. Stem 5 cent. (2 



