44 AGAKICINI. 



106. Agaxicus (Clitocybe) ectypus. Fr. " Copied Clitocybe." 



Pileus rather fleshy, plane, at length depressed, and revolute, 

 hygrophanous, finely streaked, with adpressed sooty fibrillae ; mar- 

 gin rather striate ; stem becoming hollow, elastic, fibrillose ; gills 

 adnate, somewhat distant and pallid, at length stained with red, 

 mealy. — Fr. Epicr.p. 79. 



In meadows. 



Stem 2-4 in. long, 3-5 lin. thick, sub-bulbous, dirty yellowish ; pileus about 

 2-8 in. broadj honey-coloured, then rufescent j margin very thin, striate. 



107. Agaxicus (Clitocybe) bellus. Fr. " Pretty Clitocybe." 



Pileus rather fleshy, convex, then depressed (dull orange), 

 sprinkled with minute dark scales ; stem stufi'ed, equal, tough, 

 rivulose ; gills adnate, sub-distant, connected by veins, yellowish, 

 reddish brown, at length mealy. — Fr. Epicr.p. 79. Eng. Fl. Y.p. 

 42. 



In fir plantations. Foetid. 



Pileus 2| in. broad, deep orange brown, becoming gradually pale ; gills in- 

 carnato-ferruginous ; stem 2^ in. high.— il/./. B. Often growing in company 

 with A. laccatus. 



108. Agaricus (Clitocybe) laccatus. Scop. " Waxy Clitocybe." 



Pileus membranaceous, convex, then depressed, and somewhat 

 umbilicate, variable, hygrophanous, mealy ; stem stuffed, equal, 

 tough, fibrous ; gills adnate, thick, distant, brightly coloured, at 

 length mealy. — Fr. Epicr. p.l^. Schceff.LlS. Bull.t.blO, f. 1. 

 Grev.t.24.9. Kromb.tAS,/. 17-20, t. 72, f. 19-20. Batt. £.18, 

 G.I. HussA.tAl. Berk.Outl. t. 5,/. 3. 5oZi. f. 63-64. Sow. t. 

 187-208. FL Dan. 1. 1249. Batsch.f. 99. Eng. Fl. v. p. 41. Price, 

 f. 122. 



In woods. Extremely common and variable. [United States,] 



Sometimes of a bright amethyst, usually reddish brown ; pileus 1-2 in. broad, 

 convex, the centre more or less depressed, often cracked or squamulose, with 

 a mealy appearance, sub-carnose, turning pale when dry, margin incurved, 

 often very much lobed and waved; gills more or less of the colour of the pileus, 

 not changing colour, horizontal, broad behind, and adnate, thick, distant, 

 sometimes forked above, mealy from the white spores ; stem 1-6 in. long, 

 thicker and downy below, fibrillose, tough, hollow, of the colour of the pileus, 

 not becoming: pale.— i/. /. B. Spores globose and echinulate, '00035 in. 

 diameter J echinulate spores are unusual in Ayaricus. — W.G.S. 



