276 AGARICUS. 



Naucoria. I. — Gymxoti. Pileus smooth. Veil none, &c. 



■^ Gills free or slightly adtiexed. 



615. A. lugubris Fr. — Pileus 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) hros^^, pallid 

 when young, then fer7'uginoiLs, and at length almost date-brown, 

 fleshy, cainpajiiilate, then expanded, gibbous, even, smooth ; flesh 

 white. Stem 7.5-10 cent. (3-4 in.) long, 6-10 mm. (3-5 lin.) thick, 

 rooted, with a long attenuated fusiform root, stuffed \m\\\\ a white 

 spongy pith ; externally remarkably cartilaginous, rigid, smooth, 

 pallid upwards and w^hen young, becoming ferruginous down- 

 wards and when older. Gills quitey";-!?^, ventricose, but very broad 

 behind, 12 mm. (>^ in.) and more broad, crowded, pallid then 



ferruginous, edge for the most part serrated. 



Spores pallid then ferruginous. Veil quite awanting. Often caespitose. A 

 remarkable form has occurred with the pileus bullate and undulated, date- 

 brown on the disc, tenaciously viscid, and the stem short, 5 cent. (2 in.) 



In a mountain fir wood. Coed Coch. Autumn. 



Spores very irregular, 5-7 mk. subglobose, B. 6^ Dr.; pruniform, rugu- 

 lose, 10 mk. Q. Name — tugeo, to mourn. Sombre. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 364. 

 Hym. Eur. p. 253. Icon, t. 12.1, f. i. B. df Br. n. 1945 bis. 



616. A. hamadryas Fr. — Pileus 4-5 cent. {i%-2 in.) broad, 

 bay-brown-fefyuginous W'h&n young and moist, pale yellowish when 

 old and becoming pale, slightly fleshy, convex then expanded, 

 gibbous, even, smooth. Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, 6 mm. (3 

 lin.) thick, somewhat fragile, hollow, equal, naked, smooth, pallid. 

 Gills atte7i2iato-adnexed, somewhat free, slightly ventricose, almost 

 4 mm. (2 lin.) broad, qxossi^q.^, ferruginous, opaque. 



Veil none. Widely removed from neighbouring species. Pileus somewhat 

 separate as in Plutei. 



On the ground in woods. Brandon. 



Name — 'Aju.a5pvas, a nymph whose life was bound up with that of her tree. 

 Fr. Monogr. \. p. 366. Hym. Eur. p. 254. Icon. t. \'z\. f. 3. B. 6^ Br. n. 

 1870. 



617. A. cidaris Fr. — Pileus scarcely 2.5 cent, (i in.) broad, but 

 when flattened as much as 5 cent (2 in.), clay-cinnamon when 

 moist, tan when dry, slightly fleshy at the disc, membranaceous 

 round the undulated (scarcely inflexed) margin, co72ical then ca?n- 

 panulate, even, smooth, slightly striate at the margin when moist ; 

 flesh scissile, white when dr}^ Stem 4 cent. (i>^ in.) or little more 

 \or\g,Jistulose, attenuated front the apex to the base (at the base 2 

 mm., I lin., at the apex 4 mm., 2 lin., thick), somewhat compressed. 



