100 AGARICINI. 



greyish, fle«li coloured, edge black, serrulated. — Fr Epicr.p. 153. 

 Holms, ii. t. 38. Bull. t. 413,/. 1. Ann. N.H. no. 146. 



In woods. Rare. Wotliorpe. 



Remarkable for its black margined, serrated gills ; stem black, steel blue, 

 glaucous, or grey. Pileus at first blackish blue. 



277. Agaricus (Leptonia) euchrous. P. "Violet Leptonia." 



Pileus rather fleshy, campanulate,then convex, obtuse, squamu- 

 lose, orfibrillose; stem stuffed, smooth, violet; gills adnexed, ven- 

 tricose, violet; edge darker, entire. — Fr. Epicr.j). 153. Pers, Syn. 

 /?. 343. Ann.N.H.no.m. 



On alder trunks. 



Pileus violet, scarcely an inch broad ; stem about 1^ in. long, 1 line thick, 

 tough. The habitat as well as structure of this species is analogous with 

 certain species of Collyhia. 



278. Agaricus (Leptonia) chalyboeus. P. " Steel-blue 



Leptonia." 



Pileus rather fleshy, convex, sub-umbonate, without striae, at 

 first flocculose, then squamulose ; stem stuffed, smooth, blue; 

 gills emarginate, adnexed, broad, ventricose, glaucous, dirty white, 

 edge darker. — Fr. Epicr.p. 153. Sow. i. 161. Kromhli. t. 2./. 11, 

 16. Eng. Fl.Y.p. 80. 



In pastures. July — Sept. 



Pileus i-1 in. broad, convex, minutely umbonate, scaly, dark blue, or al- 

 most black, sub-carnose, slightly striate on the margin, flesh dark blue ; gills 

 at first pale, then clouded lightly, of the colour of the pileus. Stem 1^ in. 

 high, 1 line thick, stuffed, at length hollow, indigo without, dark within, 

 cearlj- smooth above, downy at the base. Spores rose-coloured, elliptic, with 

 a globular nucleus. — M. J. B. (PL III.,f. 16, small fig.) 



279. Agazicus (Leptonia) incanus. Fr. " Hoary Leptonia." 



Pileus submembranaceous, convexo-plane, umbilicate, smooth, 

 with a silky lustre, or virgate, margin striate ; stem fistulose, 

 shining, smooth, brownish-green ; gills adnate, seceding, broad, 

 somewhat distant, -u hite, then greenish. — Fr. Epicr. p. 154. Sow. 

 i. 162. A.Sowerhei.Eng.Fl.y.p.^2. 



In pastures. 



Smell like that of mice ; gregarious ; pileus about 1 in. broad, variegated 

 brown and greenish; stem 1-2 in. long, greenish or greenish brown. Spores 

 very irregular, dull-yellowish, pink, average diameter '00034 in. 



(Fl. Ill.i f, 16, redw^ed.) 



