20 AGARICINI. 



Sect. 3. CollyhioidetE. 



37. Agaricus (Armillaxia) mucidus. Fr. "Clammy 



Armillaria." 



Pilous thin, soft, convex, then expanded, rugulose, glutinous; 

 stem stuffed, rigid, thickened at the base ; ring superior, re- 

 flexed, with the margin erect, striate ; gills rounded, striato-decur- 

 rent, distant, white.—i^r.^pzcr.;?. 24. i^/.Dcm.i. 773,1 130,1372. 

 Gard. Chron., 1861, p. 576. Tratt. Austr. t. 27. Eng. Fl. Y.p. 11. 

 Saund.4' S?n. t. 5. Price,/. 91. 



On Beech. [United States.] 



Pure white, or with a cinereous tinge; caespitose. Pileus 1|- in. broad, 

 white, tinged with brown, hemispherical, clammy, uneven, radiato-rugose, 

 tough; margin thin, somewhat turned in; gills broad, distant, rounded 

 behind, but not in front, adnata, margin serrulate ; stem l|-3 in. high, 1-2 

 lines thick, bulbous, attenuated upwards, often curved, white, brown at the 

 base, with minute adpressed scales, juicy, solid, with a pale line down the 

 centre ; ring persistent ; margin often brown, and slimy, adhering so closely 

 to the stem by its upper portion as easily to escape notice in an advanced 

 stage of growth.— ili". /. B. Spores -00063 X "OOOSB in.— IF. G. S. 



[Agahicus millus. Sow. is doubtful, Berkeley refers it to A. (Tricho- 

 loma) terreus, and Smith, following Fries, in "Middlesex Flora," to 

 Armillaria.'] 



Sub-Gen. 4. Tricholoma. Fr. S. M. i., p. 36. 



Veil absent, or if present, floccose, and adhering to the margin, 

 of pileus; pileus generally fleshy; stem homogeneous, and confluent 

 with the hymenophore, central, and subfleshy, without either ring 

 or volva, and with no distinct bark-like coat; gills sinuate, i. e., 

 with a sinus (or small sudden curve) near the stem (h). 



Hab. All the species grow on the ground, the larger in hilly 



woods, and the smaller in pastures. — (Fl. II., f.A.) 



Most of the species grow in the autumn, some very late, but a group of 

 which A. gambosus, Fr. is the type, is strictly vernal, and the species consti- 

 tuting it have long been considered special delicacies ; the greater number 

 of the remaining species are also edible, and have a pleasant odour like 

 that of new flour, but a few are rank and suspicious, of which A. sajjonaceus 

 is an example. 



A. Limacina — ^pileus viscid. 

 Sect. 1. Gills white, not changing. 



38. Agaxicus (Tricholoma) equestris. lAnn. " Fir-wood 



Tricholoma." 



Pileus fleshy, compact, convex, then expanded, obtuse, flexuose, 

 squamulose, viscid ; stem solid, obese, sulphur coloured, as well as 



