40 AGAEICINI. 



In very rainy weatlier on a grassy bank. Aug. Aboyne. 



' ' Pileus slightly viscid when moist, broadly infundibnliform, 'Without any 

 trace of an nmbo, 9 in. across, white, opaque; margin incurved, at length 

 sulcate. Stem 2Hn. high, 1 in. thick, equal, obtuse, minutely flocculose ; 

 gills at first very narrow, forked behind, decurrent, at length slightly rounded, 

 white, then yellowish." — B. ^i: Br. 



95. Agaricus (Clitocybe) maximus. Fr. "Sowerby's Clitocybe." 



Pileus fleshy, tbin, sub-flaccid, dry, silky or squamulose, broadly 

 infundibuliform, disc compact, somewhat umbonate ; stem stuffed, 

 compact, elastic, attenuated, fibrilloso-striate ; gills decurrent, 

 rather crowded, whitish. — Epicr.p. 68. Buxh. iv. 1. 1. A.gigan- 

 teus, Soiv. t. 244. Eng. Fl. v. p. 33. Huss. i. t. 79. Letell. t. 682. 

 Hogg. ^ Jolinst. i. 23. 



Meadows and woods. Sept. Esculent. [United States.] 



Pileus 4-14 in. broad, fleshy, often splitting at the margin, broadly infun- 

 dibuliform, the base of the funnel sunk into the stem, with no trace of umbo, 

 dirty white, with an ochraceous tinge, rCiinutely adpresso-squamulose to the 

 naked eye, sometimes guttate, the whole surface under a lens clothed with a 

 fine matted silkiness, margin grooved, the grooves shallow. Gills close, forked, 

 yellow-white, as broad as the flesh of the pileus. Stem 2|-3 in. high, nearly 

 2 in. thick at the base, firm, fleshy, elastic, quite solid, sub-bulbous, some- 

 times attenuated upwards, minutely but conspicuously pubescent, when 

 bruised dirty rufescent. Odour strong.— J/. /. i?. Spores '00022 X "00013 

 in.-W.G.S. 



96. Agaricus (Clitocybe) infundibuliformis. Sclusff. ''Funnel 



Clitocybe." 



Pileus fleshy, thin, at first convex, umbonate, clothed with 

 minute innate silky down, at length funnel-shaped, flaccid ; stem 

 stuffed, soft, elastic, thickened downwards ; gills decurrent, mod- 

 erately distant, white. — Schceff. i. 212. Price f. 69. Fr. Epicr. p. 

 68. Berk. Outl. t. 5,/. 2. Eng. Fl. y.p. 32. Bull. t. 286, 553. 



On the sides of woods, amongst moss, &c. Common. 



Pileus of a pale reddish tan, 2-3 in. across, dry, elastic, at first convex, then 

 umbonate, depressed, or quite infundibuliform, v?ith traces of the umbo, 

 variously crisped and lobed, margin involute and downy, the whole clothed 

 with a delicate closely woven web, which is often pinched up at the margin 

 into little raised strise, these generally vanish as the pileus becomes completely 

 expanded. Flesh moderately thick in the centre, colour of the pileus. Gills 

 white, attenuated, numerous, unequal, some ofthem forked at the base. Stem 

 variable in length, 2-9 Hnes thick, attenuated upwards, elastic, stuffed, paler 

 than the pileus. Odour strong but grateful. — ^/i^. Fl. 



Var. membranaceus. Fr. In a fir wood. Torquay. — W.W.S. 



Fries says this well-marked variety is intermediate between A. squamulo- 

 sus and A. infundibuliformis, appearing earlier in the year than the latter. 



