288 AGARICUS. 



Naucoria. IHiist. PI. 480. b. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 342. A, vestitus Chev. Par. p. 2x5. /. 

 6.f. 9 (short-stemmed, young). 



646. A. conspersus Pers.— Pileus 1-2.5 cent. (X-i in.) broad, 

 bay-brown- or riifoics-ci?inanioJi when fresh, ochraceous when 

 dry, very hygropha7ioiis^ slightly fleshy, campanulato - convex 

 then flattened, obtuse, at first rather even, soon fiirfiiraceous and 

 broken up z7ito small scales. Stem 2.5-5 cent. (1-2 in.) long, 2 

 mm. (i lin.)thick, fistulose, ^Q^2\,Jibrillose, cinnamon, ochraceous 

 when dry, sqicainuloso-fiu'furaceoiis at the apex. Gills at first ad- 

 nate, then emarginato-j-^/^?n?/z>/^, crowded, sometimes linear, 

 sometimes ventricose, dark cinnamon ; edge entire, of the same 

 colour. 



The gills retain their dark colour in every stage of growth. Gregarious, 



fragile. In boggy places a remarkable variety occurs twice or thrice as large 



in all its parts, with the stem long, twisted, umber, white-tomentose at the 



base, with the pileus umbonate, 4 cent, (i J^ in.) broad, fuscous-rufescent, and 



with the gills broader. 



On the ground and among leaves in woods. Uncommon. 

 Sept.-Oct. 



Name — conspersus, besprinkled. From the scales. Pcj's. Ic. descr. t. 12. 

 f. 3. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 383. Hym. Eur. p. 264. B. 6^ Br. n. 911. C. 

 Hbk. n. 369. <S. Mycol. Scot. n. 343. Krovibh. t. 3./. 12. 



647. A. escharoides Fr. — Pileus 12 mm. {Yz in.) broad, tan 

 then whitish, disc at length becoming fuscous, slightly fleshy, 

 soft, conico-convex soon flattened, obtuse, without striae, sqiiamii- 

 loso-furfuraceoKs; flesh white. Stem 2.5-5 cent. (1-2 in.) and 

 more long, 2 mm. (i lin.) and more thick, fragile, Jistiilose, equal, 

 flexuous, adpressedly Jibrillose (becoming smooth), pallid, at 

 length becoming fuscous, somewhat pruinose at the apex. Gills 

 at first adfixed, even decurrent with a tooth, at length emarginate, 

 somewhat free, ventricose, broad, lax, pallid-tan, at length some- 

 what cinnamon with the spores. 



Very changeable, but very easily distinguished from all neighbouring 

 species by the primitive colour of all its parts being pallid. Gregarious, 

 somewhat crespitose. 



On bare damp ground. Apethorpe. Aug. 



Exactly the plant of Schceffer t. 226. Pileus campanulate, obtuse, slightly 

 fleshy, umbonate or umbilicate, sometimes plane, hygrophanous, innato- 

 squamulose, often venulose, tawny at length pallid ; veil white, evanescent ; 

 stem flexuous, nearly equal, clothed with white fibrils, pale, ringless, fistulose ; 

 gills broad, bright cinnamon, distant, fixed, acute behind, at length seceding. 

 Brittle, B. &" Br. Spores of a pure ochre, not peroxidate, 16-17 mk. B. 6^ 

 Br. Name — cschara, scab. From the scabby or scurfy scales. Fr. Monogr. 

 i' /• 383- Hym. Eur. p. 264. B. b' Br. n. 1122, C. Hbk. n. 368. Schcejf. 

 t. 226. var. 



