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pulTemlent below the ring ; gills free, crowded, blood-red. — Fr. 

 Epicr.p. 215. Roth. Cat. ii. t. 9,/. 1. Ann. N.H. no. 147. Ag. hcema- 

 tophyllus. Mag. Zool. Sf Bot. no. 38, t. xv./. 1. 



On peat beds in gardens. Kare. [S. Carolina.] 



Solitary or gregarious, often fasciculate. Pileus 1-1|- in. broad, thin, brittle, 

 cbocolate, or olive brown, clothed with, minute raised scales, and copious meal 

 of the same colour ; flesh pale, not changing when cut ; gills varying greatly 

 in breadth, rounded behind, quite free, but approximate, at first of a fine 

 red, at length deep chocolate. King broad, fugacious, attached at first in 

 ragged triangular lacinise to the edge of the pileus, mealy externally, of a 

 beautiful pink within ; stem 1^ in. high, 1-2 lines or more thick, chocolate- 

 red when rubbed, clothed with meal, red within, stufi'ed, penetrating j smell 

 strong. — M. J. B. 



Suh-Gen. 12. Pluteus. Fr. Epicr. p. 140. 



Spores generally regular in shape, but in some species approach- 

 ing the irregularity of Heheloma, pink or salmon-colour, more or 

 less bright, some approaching in colour the spores of genus 5, 

 PaxiUus, others sub-genus 19, Flammula; veil none; pileus of 

 the same nature with the stem and gills, smooth, silky, or wrinkled ; 

 stem ringless and without a volva, distinct from the hymenophore ; 

 gills free, at first white, then yellowish, afterwards pink, very 

 crowded, almost cohering, sometimes subliquescent. 



Hab. The species almost always grows on, ox close to, the trunks 

 of trees.— (P/. III., fig. 12.) 



The characters of this sub-genus agree with those of Volvana, with the ex- 

 ception of the volva, which is absent in Pluteus. Fries thinks it doubtful 

 whether the pellicle of the pileus, always fibrous, flocculose, or pruinose, should 

 not be considered as a universal concrete veil, which would give an analogy 

 with Lqjkifa, The species of Pluteus appear in spring, early summer, or late 

 in the autumn. They are tasteless, and none edible. — W. G. S. 



Sect. 1. Pileus with evanescent fibrils. 



240. Agaricus (Pluteus) cervinus. Sch(sff. " Fawn Pluteus." 



Pileus fleshy, campanulate, then expanded, nearly even, smooth, 

 then clad with evanescent fibrillose scales ; margin naked ; stem 

 solid, with black fibrils ; gills free, crowded, white, then flesh- 

 coloured. — Fi\ Epicr. p. lAO. Schceff.t. 10. Soiv. t. 108. Batsch. 

 f. 76. KrombJi. t. 2,/. 7-10. Sturm t. 28. Fl. Dan. 1. 1067,/. 2. 



On trunks of trees. 



Pileus 3 in. and more broad, dingy, growing pale, sometimes tawny yellow. 

 Spores very bright, orange pink. -00023 X "00018. in. 



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