AGAEICIKl. 83 



On dead stems of reed. Oct. Berwicksliire. 



Pileas membranaceous, inverted, deeply cyattiiform, |-in. broad, smooth, 

 ■waved and furrowed at the edges, of a wood-brown hue, becoming paler when 

 dry ; gills adnato-decurrent, at least in the inverted pileus, 1 line broad, 

 rather distant, thick, more or less undulated, wrinkled on the sides and in 

 the interstices with flexuous veins, once or twice divided near the edge, of a 

 dull chalky white. Spores oblong, colourless, pellucid. Stem 1| in. high, 

 about 1 line thick, fistulose, erect, stiff, and elastic, smooth, white, or very 

 pale wood-brown above, towards the base of a dirty dark brown, becoming 

 paler when dry. then apparently mealy ; root slightly incrassated, bent, fixed 

 by a dense cottony web. — M. /. B. 



230. Agaricus (Omphalia) integxellus. P. '-Little-white 



Omphalia." 



White, fragile ; j^ileus membranaceous, liemisplierical, then 



expanded, pellucid; striate; stem very slender, short, pubescent 



below ; gills decurrent, distant, slightly branched, edge acute. — 



Fr. Epicr. p. 128. Pers. Ic. ^' Des. t. 13, /. 5. Eng. Fl. y. p. 64. 



Ann. N.H. no. 142. Ray. Syn. t. i.,/. 2, a. a. 



On decayed sticks. Rare. 



Csespitose. Pileus 2-3 lines broad, at first hemispherical, obtuse, at length 

 rather plane, substance thin, pellucid. Gills narrow, arcuate, decurrent. not- 

 withstanding the form of the pileus, some branched, especially in younger 

 specimens, with but few short ones. Stem 1 in. high, fistulose, sub-pulveru- 

 lent, villous at the base. — Pers. 



Series 2. Hyporhodii, Fr. Epicr. p. 138. — Spores pink or 



salmon-colour. 



There is not one quarter so many Agarics bearing pink or salmon-coloured 

 as white spores. The size of the spores varies greatly. A few are very small, 

 others equally large (see Plate), whilst the majority are remarkably irregular, 

 resembling the fragments of granite seen in the roads. Some of the species 

 are edible, as in Clitopilus (analogous with the white-spored edible species of 

 Clitoci/heJ, whilst others are poisonous, as in Eidohnnrx, reminding us of such 

 dangerous species of Tricholoma as A. sulfareuSi Bull, etc. — W. G. S. 



Suh-Gen. 10. Volyaria, Fr. S. M. i. p. 277. 



Spores regular in shape, OYal or pip-shaped, pink or salmon- 

 colour ; Yeil universal, forming a perfect Yolva (c), distinct from 

 the cuticle of pileus (a) ; stem distinct from the hymenophore ; 

 gills free, rounded behind, at first white, then jDink, soft, liquescent. 



Hab. Gardens and hot houses, and in woods and on manured 

 ground, growing on rotten wood and damp ground ; one species 

 is parasitic on Agaricus nehularis. — (Plate III. ^ Jig. 10.) 



