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Phoiiota. 501. A. capistratus Cke.— Pileus 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) broad, 



livid, tawny, rather viscid when moist, whitish when dry, fleshy, 

 convex, margin involute and slightly striate. Stem 7.5-10 cent. 

 (3-4 in.) long, thick, stuffed, nearly equal, subsquamulose. Ring 

 large and entire, spreading and persistent. Gills decurrent, 

 crowded, rather fleshy, pallid, growing darker. 



Subcaespitose. Taste rather unpleasant. Distinguished from A. pudicus, 

 &c,, by its decurrent gills, its more robust habit, and the folding in of the 

 margin of the pileus. Said to be edible. 



On old stumps, elm, «S:c. Highgate, 1862. Aug. 



Spores of the same size and colour as those of A. leochromus, IV.G.S. 

 Name — capisfrtitn, a halter. From the ring. Cooke Seevi. Journ. Bot. 1863. 

 t. 3. f. 4. Hbk. 71. 294. PL I. f. I. Illust. PL 364. B. 6^ Br. n. 1003. 

 Fr. Hy7?i. Eur. p. 21S. 



502. A. segerita Fr. — Pileus tawny, becoming pale-white to- 

 wards the margin, fleshy, convex then plane, 7'ividose, slightly 

 wrinkled ; flesh white. Stem stufled, equal, white-silky, fibrillose, 

 the superior ring swollen. Gills adnate, decurrent with a small 

 tooth, crowded, pallid \k\^x\ fuscous. 



Odour pleasant. C.nespitose. 



On dead ash. King's Lynn. July. 



Name — ai-yetcos, the black poplar. From its being first found on black 

 poplar. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 219, Brigant. t. 32, 33. f. 1-4. Batt. t. 6. E. 

 C. Illust. PL 453. 



503. A. luxurians Fr. — Pileus yellowish- white, then rufous- 

 fuscous, fleshy, convexo-gibbous, then flattened, unequal, silky, 

 then squamulose. Stem stuffed, rigid, somewhat squamulose, 

 white then becoming fuscous; r/;z^<a://<r(2/, torn, fugacious. Gills 

 adnexed thtn dea^rrent, crowded, grey-flesh-colour then becoming 

 fuscous. 



Caespitose, very irregular ; flesh white. 



On oak and elm. King's Lynn. 



Spores 8-10x3-4 mk. IV.P. Name — luxt/rio, to he luxuriant Fr. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 219. Polymyces Batt. t. 23. B. Hypophyllum sericeum Paul. t. 

 146. A. aegerita C. Illust. PL 365. 



■^■^ Squamosi. Pileus scaly, gills changing colour, &^c. 

 t Gills pallid then becoming fuscous, olivaceous, &^c. 



504. A. comosus Fr. — Pileus 7-5 cent. (3 in.) broad, tawny, 

 sprinkled with paler, superficial, separating scales, fleshy, con\'ex 



