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AGARICUS. 



Pluteolus. at first viscous and covered over with a network of ajiastomos- 

 ing veins, when full grown more even or slightly pitted, slightly 



striate at the margin. Stem 5 cent. 

 (2 in.) long, 4 mm. (2 lin.) and more 

 thick, hollow, equal, fragile (but the 

 cuticle becoming polished-even or car- 

 tilaginous), fibrillose^ white, niealy at 

 the apex. Gills planely free, ventri- 

 cose, crowded, arid, ditigy cijuiainon. 



Spores dark ferruginous. 



On dead wood. Rare. 



In the young state the pileus is of a delicate 

 bistre, and it is only in age that it assumes a 

 violet tinge, apparently from the colour of the 

 spores being partly seen through the flesh. 

 Care must be taken to distinguish it from 

 such species as A. phlebophorus, M.J.B. 

 Name — rete, a net. From the network of 

 veins on the pileus. Pers. Ic. descr. t. 4./". 

 Hym. Eur. p. 266. Berk. Out. p. 162. /. 9. 



XXVI. Agaricus {Pluteolus) reti- 

 culatus. One-half natural size. 



4-6. 



Fr. Mo7iogr. i. p. 387. 

 C. Hbk. n. 373. Illust. PI. 495. 



651. A. aleuriatus Fr. — Pileus 1-2.5 cent. (>^-i in.) broad, 

 bluish-grey, livid, rose-colour, somewhat membranaceous, conical 

 then convexo-plane, viscous, stiHate. Stem 2.5 cent, (i in.) long, 

 2 mm. (i lin.) thick, fistulose, \x\zwx\^A, pulverulent, white. Gills 

 free, ventricose, saffron-ochraceous. 



In structure and nature it is very closely allied to A. reticulatus, and does 

 not differ from it except in the stature of all its parts being smaller and thinner, 

 in the fistulose incurved stem being everywhere white-pulverulent, in the'pileus 

 being somewhat membranaceous, striate but by no means wrinkled, and in the 

 gills being saffron-ochraceous and the spores bright ochraceous. 



On rotten sticks, &c. Coed Coch. Oct. 



Name — a\evpov, flour. Dusted over. From the pulverulent stem. Fr. 

 Monogr. i. p. 388. Hym. Eur. p. 266. Icon. t. 126./. 5. B. ^ Br. n. 1123. 

 C. Hbk. n. 374. 



Galera. Subgenus XX V. GALEBA {galerus, a cap). Fr. Syst. Myc. 



i. p. 264. Veil none or fibrillose. Stem somewhat cartil- 

 aginous, co7itin2wus with the hy7?ienophore, tubular (tube some- 

 what hollow). Pileus more or less membranaceous, conical 

 or oval then expanded, striate, margin at the first straight, 

 addressed to the stem. Gills ?tot decurrent. Slender, fragile. 



