194 AGARICUS. 



Entoloma. varying cinereous, fiiligino7is a7td at the smne time becoming purple, 

 slightly fleshy, fragile, rather pi a7ie, tough, umbonate, often de- 

 pressed round the umbo, even when moist, smooth, but often as 

 if variegated with tiger-spots, the spreading margin sometimes 

 slightly striate; flesh thin, pallid. Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, 

 6 mm. (3 lin.) thick, fragile, hollow, rarely stuffed, equal or slightly 

 thickened at the base, cinereous-fibrillose, becoming pallid ciner- 

 eous. Gills obtusely adnate (in no wise decurrent with a tooth), or 

 slightly sinuate, 6 mm. (3 lin.) broad, distinct, somewhat distant, 

 quaternate, white then flesh-colour. 



Pileus becoming (pale when old, but not hygrophanous. Odour of new 

 meal, taste watery. 



On heathy pastures. Coed Coch. 



Name— e'Aos, marsh. Growing in marshy places. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 270. 

 Hy7n. Eur. p. 191. B. b' Br. ?i. 790. Berk. Out. p. 143. C. Hbk. n. 250. 

 Illust. PI. 339. Var. PI. 373. 



424. A. Batschianus Fr. — Pileus 1-4 cent, {yz-i^z in.) broad, 

 dark fuscous, or fuHginous-black, viscid, shifiing when dry, not 

 hygrophanous, slightly fleshy, at first slightly convex, scarcely 

 umbonate, then depressed, even, smooth, margin at first mani- 

 festly involute ; flesh of the same colour, white when dry. Stem 

 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long. 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.) thick, hollow, 7nod- 

 erately tough, but not cartilaginous, wholly fibrous, equal or 

 slightly attenuated at both ends, slightly striate with adpressed 

 fibrils, grey. Gills narrowed behind, but wholly adnexed at the 

 apex, plane, crowded when young, when full grown somewhat 

 distant, dingy whitish then ci?iereous or fuliginous. 



Odour obsolete. The spores are of a beautiful rose-colour, so that it is most 

 certainly different from A. {Colly.) murinus. 



On the ground. Coed Coch, 1881. Oct. 



Spores rather irregular, 9 mk. B. 6^ Br. Name — from Batsch who first 

 figured the species as A. muri?ius. Fr. Monogr. i. /. 270. Hym. Eur. p. 191. 

 B. fir" Br. 1936. Illust. PI. 326. A. murinus Batsch f. 19 may be referred to 

 this and to A. murinus alike. 



425. A. Bloxami Berk. — Pileus 2.5 cent, (i in.) or more broad, 

 blackish -blue, compact, campanulate, very obtuse, somewhat 

 lobed, moist, slightly silky; flesh very thick in the centre, white. 

 Stem 4 cent, {lyi in.) long, 12 mm. {Yz in.) thick, solid, slightly 

 attenuated upwards, obtuse at the base, of the same colour as the 

 pileus. Gills attenuated behind or slightly adnexed, moderately 

 broad, pale pink. 



In open exposed pastures. Uncommon. Oct.-Nov. 



