300 



AGARICUS. 



Tubaria. 



Spores brown. Allied to A. inquilinus. It is as it were a larger state of 

 that species, with the veil of A. furfur aceus, but more evident, and here and 

 there in the form of a floccose ring at the apex of the stem. The ring is mo- 

 derately persistent, white, but often awanting. 



Among sticks. Welford, Norths., &:c. Sept.-Oct. 



Name — Kpoi^vKo?, a knot of hair twisted on the crown of the head. From 

 the peculiar scales on the pileus. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 380. Hy7)i. Eur. p. 274. 

 B. fr= Br. n. 1249. C. Illust. PI. 496. 



673. A. inquilinus Fr. — Pileus 12 mm. (;^ in.) broad, varying 

 in colour, when fresh livid-fuscous (becoming hoary when dry), 

 somewhat brick- colour (tan), hygrophanous, membranaceous, 

 slightly fleshy at the disc, convex then plane and at length um- 

 bonate, slightly viscid, smooth, striate when moist, even when 

 dry. Stem 2.5 cent, (i in.) long, scarcely 2 mm. (i lin.) thick, 

 fistulose, tough, attenuated downwards, flexuous, white-Jib?'illose 

 or slightly silky, date-browjt, white floccose at the base ; thick- 

 ened at the apex, at first flocculose. Gills very broad behind 

 (hence iriangiilar), broadly adjiate, somewhat decurre?it, plane, 

 somewhat distant, more than 2 mm. (i lin.) broad, clay-fuscous, 

 at length umber. 



The stem is sometimes a little longer among grass, sometimes shorter on 

 wood. Gregarious. 



On chips, stalks, SiC. Common. Aug.-Oct. 



Pileus yellowish or tan colour, M.J.B. Name — hiquilinus—incolhius 

 (incolo), a lodger. Growing on other substances, parasitic. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 

 380. Hyin. Eur. p. 274. Berk. Out. p. 161. C. Hbk. n. 386. Illust. PI. 

 497. S. My col. Scot. n. 357. 



Crepidotus. Subgcnus XXVII. CREPIDOTUS (Kprrn-ls, crepida, a slipper, 

 sandal). Fr. Syst. Myc. i. p. 272. Stature various, irregular, 

 without a manifest veil. Pileus excentric, lateral or resupinate. 

 Spores ferruginous. 



The species belonging to Worthington Smith's subgenus Clau- 

 dopus have been removed from this subgenus, as they are in- 

 termediate between Hyporhodii and Dermini by reason of the 

 rubiginous spores. Fr. Hy?n. Eur. p. 275. 



Crepidotus corresponds with Pleurotus. The species grow on 

 wood, rarely on mosses, and appear late. Commonly thin, with 

 soft flesh, scarcely edible. Compare Paxillus atro-toj?tentosus, 

 panuoides, &^c., which differ completely as to the gills. 



674. A. alveolus Lasch. — Pileus 5 cent. (2 in.) and more long, 

 ?noist, ochraceous-fuscous, occasionally becoming olive at the mar- 



