240 AGARICUS. 



Inocybe. Hym. Eur. p. 227. Icon. t. 106. f. 2.. B. &f Br. n. 1234. S. Mycol. 

 Scot. 71. 283. C. Illust. PI. 389. 



528. A. hirsutus Lasch. — Pileus 12 mm. (^ in.) high and when 

 flattened still broader, fuscous, slightly fleshy, conical then cam- 

 panulate, iimbonate, acute, squarrose with fasciculato-pilose scales, 

 when older inclining to ochrey, fibrillose towards the margin 

 which is hence fringed. Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, 2 mm. (i 

 lin.) thick, solid, sleiider, but tough, fibrillose., floccoso-scaly (not 

 squarrose) at the apex, somewhat thickened and dark ^reejt at the 

 base. Gills adnexed, ascending, crowded, thin, narrow, pallid 

 then becoming fuscous, the white edge slightly toothed. 



It clearly differs from neighbouring species in the green base of the stem, and 

 in the gills becomi?ig at length fuscous. The disc of the pileus is sometimes 

 green. Odour much less than that of A. calamistratus. 



In moist beech woods, &c. Rare. Oct. 



Name — hirsutus, bristly. Lasch n. 577. Fr. Mo7iogr. i. p. 336. Hym. Eur. 

 p. '2.2.']. Grevillea, vol. viii. p. 76. 5. Mycol. Scot. Supp. Scot. Nat. 1885, /. 

 23. 



529. A. lanuginosus Bull. — Pileus 2.5 cent, (i in.) broad, um- 

 ber, at length becoming yellow, slightly fleshy, campanulato- or 

 hemispherico-convex, obtuse; then more expanded, somewhat 

 wvc)hovL2X^,fioccoso-scaly, squarrose with scales which are erect and 

 pointed at the disc; flesh of the pileus and of the stem whitish. 

 Stem 4-5 cent. {i/4-2 in.) long, 2-4 mm. (1-2 lin.) thick, solid, 

 tough, equal, whitislL-fuscous., sqiiainulosofibrillose with fuscous 

 down at the base ivhich is of the same colour, white-piilveriilent at 

 the apex. GiUs separating-free, veiitricose, broad, crowded, thin, 

 pallid-clay colour, edge slightly toothed. 



The stem is not squarrose as in A. calamistratus., &c. Inodorous, well 

 formed. 



In mixed woods, near pathways. Uncommon, July-Sept. 



Name — latiugiiiosus, woolly, downy. Bull. t. 370 (departing in the rufescent 

 gills). Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 227. Bej'k. Out. p. 153. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 284. 

 Vaill. Par. t. 13./. 4-6. A. flocculentus Poll. 3./, 288. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 

 336. C. Hbk. n. 317. Compare Pers. Ic. t. 8. y. 4. 



530. A. dulcamarus A. & S. — Pileus 2.5-5 cent. (1-2 in.) broad, 

 olivaceous-fuscous, slightly fleshy, campanulate then convex, then 

 expanded and MYcihox\2L\.Q.,fio ceo so-scaly, silky towards the margin; 

 flesh thin, becoming yellow-white. Stem 5 cent. (2 in.) long, 4 

 mm. (2 lin.) thick, someiuhat hollow, not very rigid, equal, corti- 

 nato-fibrillose, and adpressedly squainulose, paler than the pileus, 

 mealy at the apex. Gills arcuato-adfixed, ventricose, crowded, 

 pallid then olivaceous. 



