A CATALOGUE OF ESCULENT BRITISH FUNGI. 89 



Pileus. Two to three inches across, pallid, or ochreish, dry, 

 velvety ; at first conical, then expanding, convex, rather repand. 

 Margin thin, sub-involute. 



Stem. One to two inches high, white, not thick, rigid, cylindri- 

 cal, equal, fibrillose, naked, rooting. 



Section. Flesh white, not thick, brittle. Stem solid. Gills 

 pallid, then ochreish grey, crowded, thin, arcuate, nnequal, scarcely 

 sinuate, adnate. Odour strong, mouldy, rather musky. Taste 

 good. Spores white. 



Obs. Accounted edible abroad. I have found and tried it here, though I 

 beheve it has not been previously noted among British species. It seems good 

 in quality, but must be very rare. — W. D. H. 



(74.) AGARICUS HUMILIS ; Tricholoma humilis ; The Little 

 Darkie. 



Habitat. Among grass in damp situations. In groups. 



Season. August to October. Not common. 



Pileus. Two to three inches across, slate-grey, brownish on disc, 

 blackish in wet ; convexo-plane, depressed and sub-umbonate ; 

 minutely toraentose, smooth, hygrophanous. Margin thin, waved, 

 projecting. 



Stem. Two inches high, brownish, fragile, slender above, swollen 

 below, pulverulent above, tomentose and rimose below, naked. 



Section. Flesh pallid, not thick, brittle. Stem stuffed, brown. 

 Gills pallid, then brownish, broad, crowded, undulate, unequal, 

 sub-ventricose^ denticulato-adnexed. Odour and taste unpleasant. 

 Spores white. 



Obs. Gastronomically it is identical with Tri. grammopodia. — W. D. H. 



(75.) AGARICUS IMBRICATUS; Tricholoma Imbricata; The 

 Lapped-cap. 



Habitat. On the ground in fir and pine woods. In imbricated 

 tufts. 



Season. September and October. Rare. 



Pileus. Two to three inches across, rich red-brown ; conical, 

 then convex, plane, rounded, sub-umbonate, dry, rimulose, squamu- 

 lose or sericeo-fibrillose. Margin involute, pale, pubescent. 



Stem. Two to four inches high, tint of pileus, pruinose above, 

 thick, firm, swollen below, naked. 



