246 AGARICUS. 



inocybe. cent. (2 in.) long, 6-8 mm. (3-4 lin.) thick, solid, smooth, scarcely 

 fibrillose, whitish above, asruginous at the base, nearly equal. 

 Gills adnate, pallid at length clay-colour. 



Flesh everywhere turning blood-red when touched or wounded. Pileus clad 

 with long darker fibrils. The asruginous colour at the base of the stem pene- 

 trating through the flesh. Spores elliptical, attenuated towards one end, 

 smooth. 



On lawn. Credinhill Court, 1882. Oct. 



Name — ai/txa/cTo?, stained with blood. Of the flesh. Grevillea, vol. xi. p. 

 70. C. Illust. PI. 390. 



III. — RiMOSi. P ileus longitudinally fibrous y soon cracked, &^c. 



545. A. fibrosus Sow. /^7^//^.— Pileus fleshy, thin, obtusely 

 campanulate, silky-even, at length cracked, margin bent inwards, 

 flexuous. Stem solid, long, striate, i-^rt/j/-i^occulose at the apex. 

 Gills free, crowded, linear-lanceolate, whitish-pallid. 



Pileus as much as 7.5 cent. (3 in.) broad. Stem 7.5-10 cent. (3-4 in.) long, 

 6-8 mm. (3-4 lin.) thick. Gills about 4 mm. (2 lin.) broad. A remarkable 

 species, taller than the following, stinking, flesh white. It varies with the 

 pileus becoming yellow. 



In fir woods. Keynston Wood, Dorset, 1808. July-Sept. 



Spores 11x7 mk. W.G.S.; pruniform, echinulate, 9 mk. Q. Name — 

 fibra, fibre. Fibrous. Soiv. t. 44. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 231. Berk. Out. p. 154. 

 C. Hbk. n. 326. Illust. PI. 454. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 293, A. repandus Fr. 

 Moiiogr. i. p. 341, &c. 



546. A. phseocephalus Bull. — Pileus bay-brown, fuliginous, 

 fleshy, conico-campanulate, umbonate, repand, squamulose. Stem 

 solid, somewhat bulbous, of the same colour as the pileus above, 

 white below, villous. Gills free, arcuate, light yellow then earth- 

 coloured. 



A tall robust species. 



In mixed wood. Rare. Oct. 



Pileus about 7.5 cent, (sin.) broad. Stem 10 cent. (4 in.) long. Spores 

 bright ferruginous. In 1877 I found perfect specimens which fully confirmed 

 Berkeley's opinion that the species is a true Inocybe. The doubt expressed 

 by Fries is therefore set at rest. Name — <^atos, dusky; K^^aX-q, head. Bull. t. 

 555- /• !• ^^'' Hym. Eur. p. 231. B. &f Br. n. 1233, 1760. S. Mycol. Scot, 

 n. 294. C. Illust. PI. 396. 



547. A. fastigiatus Schaeff. — Pileus yellow-fuscous., occasion- 

 ally fuscous-brown, fleshy, conical then campanulate, margin at 

 the first bent inwards, then repand, but varying regular, acute, 

 longitudinally fibrillose and cracked, rarely adpressedly scaly ; 



