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AGARICUS. 



Fiammuia. Subgeutis XXII. FLAMMULA {flam7na, a flame). Fr. Syst. 



Myc. 



1. p. 250. 



XXI V. Agariais {Flavumila) 

 Jlavidus. One-half natural size. 



Veil fibrillose or none. Stem fieshy-Jibrous, not 

 mealy upwards. Pileus fleshy, mar- 

 gin at first z?ivohite. Gills deciirreiit 

 or ad?iate without a si7t2(s, commonly 

 quite entire, of one colour. A few 

 grow on the ground, the greater num- 

 ber on wood, passing into Pholiotae. 

 Fr. Hyin. Eur. p. 244. 



\{ Fiammuia \N^x^ restricted to spe- 

 cies with truly decurrent gills it would 

 correspond with Clitocybe. Spores 

 mostly pure ferruginous ; some are 

 fuscous - ferruginous, others tawny- 

 ochraceous. The species appear late 

 in the season. Taste insipid or bitter. 

 None edible. 



Veil none ; 

 squamulose. 



I. Gymnoti (yv/avos, naked), 

 pileus dry, most frequently 

 Spores ferruginous, in A. decipiens fuscous-ferruginous. 



II. Lubrici {lubricus, slimy). Pileus covered with a contimious, somewhat 

 separable, smooth, viscous pellicle ; cortina manifest, fibrillose. Spores ferru- 

 ginous, not tawny, but fuscous-ferruginous in A. carbonarius. Gregarious, 

 growing on the ground, rarely on wood. They correspond with the Hebelo- 

 mata, but are easily distinguished by the gills not being sinuate, by the more 

 viscous pellicle being somewhat separable, by the apex of the stem not being 

 pruinose, and by the odour, &c. 



III. Udi {udus, moist). Cuticle of the pileus cotttinuous, not distinct nor 

 separable, smooth (here and there with a superficial covering) moist or a little 

 viscid in rainy weather. Cortina maiiifst, appe?idiculate. Spores not tawny 

 nor ochraceous. Allied to the PholiotcB, caespitose, growing on wood, most 

 distinct from each other. 



IV. Sapinei {sapi?ius, pine). Pileus scarcely pelliculose (the flesh, however, 

 scissile or torn above into scales), not viscous, at first somewhat incrusted. 

 Veil fibrilloso-adpressed to the stem, not furnished with a?i appendiculate cor- 

 tina, almost 710716, or for7ni7ig an a/inular zone on the stei)i. They are distin- 

 guished, however, by the gills being light yellow or yellow then taw7iy, and by 

 the ochraceous or tawny spores. Somewhat caespitose, always on pine, but 

 here and there on the ground among pine-branches, forming a series of species 

 in very close sequence, but yet very distinct. 



V. Sericelli (slightly silky). Furnished with a cortina, cuticle of the pileus 

 slightly silky, dry or at the first viscid. 



I. — Gymnoti. Veil none; pileus dry, dr'c. 



589. A. gymnopodius Bull. D3.rk fierruginous. — Pileus 5-7.5 

 cent. (2-3 in.) broad, fleshy, campanulato-convex, squamulose. 



