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where villous with whitish scales; gills free, or emarginate, crowded, 

 white, at length spotted with rufous. — Fr. Epicr.p.'2.^. Mon.Hym. 

 i.jo. 58. Sterh.t.S,A. 



In pine woods. (J. A. C.) 



Pileus compactly fleshy, convex, then expanded, very obtuse, bent, 

 glabrous, never striate, but scaly, spotted, viscid, chestnut or red, paler at 

 the circumference ; gills deeply emarginate, crowded at first, very narrow, 

 shining, then wider and reddish ; stem solid, hard, at first bulbous, entirely 

 villoso-scaly, at length nearly equal, 2 to 3 ins. long, 1 in. thick, nearly 

 glabrous, white, odour strong, like new meal, taste pleasant, spores '0002 X 

 •0001 in.; allied to A. russula, vfhich. is distinguished by its granular rosy 

 pileus.— W. G. S. 



[Fries places Agaricus frumentaceus^ Bull, here, whilst Berkeley removes 

 it to Entoloma, on the ground that the spores are rose-coloured.J 



B. Flocculosa. — pileus dry, fibrillose. 

 Sect. 1. Gills whitish, not spotted. 



49. Agaricus (Tricholoma) rutilans. ScTusff, " Red-haired 



Tricholoma." 



Pileus fleshy, campanulate, then expanded, dry, variegated, as 

 well as the somewhat hollow, soft, ventricose stem, with purpHsh 

 down ; gills rounded, crowded, yellow ; edge thickened, villous. — 

 Fr.Epicr.p. 30. Schoeff. t. 219. Eng. Fl. Y.p. 17. Sow. t. 31. Fl. 

 Dan.t.UiO. Bolt.t.U. £uxb.Y.t.4:6. Krombh.t. 63,/. 10-12. 



On pine stumps. Common. 



Subcsespitose. Pileus 2-4 in. broad, at first hemispherical; or somewhat 

 cylindrical, at length expanded, obtuse, more rarely plane, clothed with a 

 short, dense, crimson-red or olive-purple down, margin involute, white; as 

 the pileus expands the yellow cuticle becomes visible in the interstices of 

 the down, which is then scattered. Gills free, broad, rounded behind, but 

 often when old adnexed, sometimt s forked, bright yellow, floccoso-serrate, 

 margin tuning sometimes to a rich yellow-brown. Stem 2|-3f in. high, 

 ^-1 in. thick, downy, like the pileus, only the down is shorter, very obtuse 

 at the bafe. attenuated upwards, solid, then occasionally hollow. Odour 

 strong. Taste bitter.— 3/. /. B. Spores -00033 X "0002 in.- W. G. S. 



60. Agaricus (Tricholoma) scalpturatus. Fr. "Scratched 



Tricholoma." 



Pileus fleshy, conical, then convex, and expanded, obtuse, 

 breaking up into floccose, umber, or rufous scales ; stem stuffed, 

 unequal, white, fibrillose ; gills emarginate, somewhat crowded, 

 quite entire, white, then yellowish. — Fr. Eincr. p. 31. Batt., t. 

 15/. (young). A. argyraceus. Eng. Fl., No. 36, in part. 



Fir plantations, borders of woods, &c. 



Stem solid, 2-3 in. long, Hn. thick, firm, closely fibrillose. Pileus 2-3 in. 

 broad, the cuticle breaking up in scattered, floccose, umber, or rufous scales 

 Flesh whitish. 



