104 



AGAEICINI. 



On rotten wood. 



Stem stuffed, scarcely an inch long, ^ line thick, cinereous. Pileus ^in. 

 broad, liygrophanous, when moist remotely striate and brownish, when dry 

 flocculose and grey. Just the habit of A. umhelUferus, its analogue amoagst 

 the Leucos^orL 



Series III. Dermini, Fr. Epicr. p. 160. 



Spores yarions shades of reddish-brown, brown, red, or 

 yellowish-brown. 



In the Derraird there are no species with the hymenophore free .Tom the 

 stem, neither are any furnished with a volva, unless, indeed, a trae of such 

 species is indicated in the genus Cortiiiaroxs (for Corfinarias is 3ertainly 

 allied to Phollofa and Heheloma), where many of the species have ai adnata 

 volva and arachnoid ring. — W.G. S. 



Sub-Gen. 19. Pholiota. Fr. S. M. i. p. 240. (/^ 19.) 



Spores sepia-brown, bright yellowish-brown, or light rd; stem 

 confluent and homogeneous with the hymenophore, firnished 

 with a ring, persistent, friable, fugacious. j 



Hab. All the British species grow on stumps ex«pt five, 

 which grow on the ground, principally in damp, mossy jlaces. — 



{PLIV.^frj.VJ.) 



A few species are said to be edible, but they cannot be reconmended. 

 Pholiota is analogous to Annillaria and t^trop]iar!.a. There is som? dinger 

 of confusing Pholwtoe with CortinaHi, but attention must be paid b the 

 spidery veil and the rust-of-iron tint of the spores in the latter. — TF. GS. 



A. Humigenei — Terrestrial. 

 289. Agairicus (Pholiota) durus. Bolt. " Hard Pholiota" 



Pileus sub-compact, convexo-plane, smooth, at length craaed ; 

 margin even ; stem stuffed, hard, externally fibrous, rther 

 thickened upwards and mealy ; ring slightly torn ; gills aaiate 

 (often with a tooth), ventricose, liyid, then of a brown rust 

 colour. — Fr. Epicr. p. 162. Bolt. t. 67,/. 1. Krojnbh. t.i8,f. 

 14, 22. Ann. N, H. No. 2>21 . 



In gardens. [Cincinnati. 



Pileus pale, tawny, or brownish tan, 3 in. or more broad, stem sually 

 short, about \ an in. thick ; spores -00035 X '00024 in. 



