272 AGARICUS. 



Flamniula. Approaching nearer to A. astragalinus than to A.flavidus, &c,, in its scanty 

 and dingy ferruginous spores. 



On Scotch fir, larch, &c. Rare. Aug. 



Spores elh'psoid, 8 mk. Q. Name — inops, poor, scanty. From its shed- 

 ding few spores. Fr. Monogr. i. /. 358. Hym. Enr. p. 249. Icon. t. 118. / 

 I. Berk. Out. p. 158. B. &= Br. n. 1417*. C. Hbk. n. 346. Illust. PL 446. 

 S. Mycol. Scot. n. 326. A. ramoso-radicatus Bolt. t. 148 (exactly). Batt. t. 

 "22.. C. (not descr. ) 



608. A. apicreus Fr. — Pileus yellow, becoming pale and tan, 

 disc tawny, fleshy, thin, rather plane, even, smooth, moist. 

 Stem hollow, equal, not rooted, pallid, with ferruginous fibrils 

 at the base. Gills adnate, crowded, thin, shitiing ferruginotis. 



Somewhat coespitose. Odour mild. Very like A. alnicola, but the colour 

 of the gills is somewhat unchangeable, flesh hygrophanous, &c. 



In pine wood. Glamis, 1874, »S:c. Sept. 



Spores pruniform, 6-7 mk. Q. Name — a7rt/cpo?, not bitter. Fr. Hym. Eur. 

 p. 249. B. &= Br. 71. 1529, 1945. S. Mycol. Scot. n. ■^'2'j. C. Illust. PL 436. 

 A. lignatilis Bull. t. 554 A. {B. larger). 



IV. — Sapinei. Pilciis scarcely pelliculose, b^c. 



609. A. hybridus Fr.— Pileus about 5 cent. (2 in.) broad, at 

 first tawny-cinnamon, then tawny-orange, fleshy, hemispherical 

 with the margin involute, then expanded, obtuse, regular and 

 well formed, even, smooth, moist; flesh moderately compact, 

 pallid. Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, 8-10 mm. (4-5 lin.) thick, 

 at first stuffed with a soft pith, then hollow, attenuated (almost 

 conico-attenuated) itpivards, whitish with adpressed silky villous 

 down (becoming tawny when the down is rubbed off"), slightly 

 striate, white-villous at the base, and somewhat mealy at the apex. 

 Corti?ta J7ia?iifest, in the form of an animlar zone at the apex of the 

 stem, white or at length coloured with the spores. Gills adnate, 

 somewhat crowded, light yellow then tawiiy, not spotted. 



Spores ochraceous. Growing in troops. 



On fir stumps and branches. Rare. Oct.-Nov. 



This does not seem to be ^. hybridus Sow. t. 221, whose affinities are doubt- 

 ful, M.J.B. Fries thmks A. hybridzis Sow. may be a form of A. inopus. 

 Spores 6x4 mk. W.P. Name — a hyb7'id. Perhaps from its relation to species 

 near it. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 360. Hym. Eur. p. 250, Berk. Out. p. 158. B. 6^ 

 Br. n. 1243*. C. Hbk. n. 347. S. Mycol. Scot, n, 328. 



610. A. sapineus Fr. — Pileus commonly irregular and varying 

 2.5-10 cent. (1-4 in.) in breadth, golden-tawny, opaque at the disc, 

 paler and shining towards the margin, fleshy, compact, not scissile, 



