70 A CATALOGUE OF ESCULENT BRITISH FUNGI. 



(31.) AGAPJCUS SINUATUS ; Entoloma siniiata ; The 

 Pinky-cap. (Tab. II. fig. 13.) 



Habitat. In damp shady woods and shrubberies. Solitary. 



Season. April and May, September and October. Rare. 



Pileus. Four to six inches across, pale pink or huffish, smooth, 

 dry, perhaps squamulose ; at first rounded, convex, then depressed, 

 expanded, lobulate, almost repand. 



Stem. Two to three inches high, white, punctate with red, 

 stout, firm, compressed, at first fibrillose, then smooth, incrassate 

 below, naked. 



Section. Flesh white, thick, compact. Stem stuffed, almost 

 solid. Gills rosy, very broad, obtuse, eruarginate, nearly free. 

 Odour of burnt sugar. Taste mild. Spores pink. 



Ohs. Although Cooke and W. G. Smith regard this as poisonoiis, I insert it 

 here because Cordier says not merelj' that it is wholesome, but also that it is 

 tris hon a vianger. I have no personal experience of it. It must not be con- 

 founded with Ent. clypeata.— ir. D. II. 



Genus AGArdCUS. Snh-genus HYPHOLOMA. 



(32.) AGARICUS CANDOLLIANUS ; Hypholoma Candolliana; 

 The Esculent Hypholome. 



Habitat. On the ground in shady woods. In tufts. 



Season. April and May. Rare. 



Pileus. Two to four inches across, buff, whitish marginally ; at 

 first campanulate or convex, then expanding, rounded ; smooth, 

 hygrophanous. Margin fimbriate with veil. Cuticle adnate. 



Stem. Three inches high, white, fibrillose, slender, fragile, 

 striate above. Ring white, lacerate. 



Section. Flesh white, thickish. Stem hollow above, solid below. 

 Gills brownish-violet, crowded, rounded behind, adncxed. Spores 

 purple. 



Obs. The only one of the sub-genus reported esculent. It is eaten in 

 Southern Europe. But its close resemblance to sundry very bad congeners 

 deters me from recommending it. — W. D. II. 



Genus AGARICUS. Sjib-gemts LEPIOTA. 



(33.) AGARICUS ACUTESaUAMOSUS ; Lepiota acntesqua- 

 mosa ; The Scaly-top. 



