AGAEICIXI. 1 7 



On tan and eaves in liot-houses. 



White or yellow, stem variable- Gregarious or tufted. Pileus 1-3 in. broad, 

 ovate conical when young, then campanulate, and finally nearly or quite plane, 

 darkest in the centre, and more or less covered with small scattered fibrous 

 scales, fles'i thin, margin very thin, and semitransparent, plicate, substance 

 tough. Gills numerous, thin, bro d, rounded near the stem, and separated 

 from it by a circular space, but the stem is not penetrating. Stem 3-6 in. 

 high, straight or crooked, firm, even, smooth, narrow at the top, ventricose, 

 then narrower at the bottom, somewhat pruinose, the centre at first stuffed, 

 then hollow Ring perfect, erect, persistent. In decay the pileus becomes 

 brownish.— &m-. Spores '0003 X -OUOlSin.— ir. G. S. 



Sect 4, Mesomorphi- — intermediate forms. 



31. Agaricus (Lepiota) granulosus. Batsch. " Granular 



Lepiota." 



Pileus fleshy, convex, then expanded, soft, mealy with innate 

 granules, stem stuffed, then hollow, nearlyequal, floccoso-squamose 

 below the ring ; gills crowded, reaching the stem, or free, white. 

 — Fr.Epicr.p.ll . Eng. Fl.y, p. 10. Sow, t. Id. Bull. t.SG'2, 530, 

 f.S,t.l04:. Huss.i.t.4.D. Batsch. f. 2^-07. Fl.Dan.t.lG77,f.l, 

 t. 1795. Bolt. t.DlJ.2. 



In woods and on heaths. [United States.] 



White, pink, vermilion, yellow, &c. Always easily distinguished by its mealy 

 granular aspect Subgregarious. Pileus |-1 in. broad, usually dull reddish 

 yellow Fleshy in the centre, at tirst convex, or obtusely umbonate, at length 

 often plane or depressed, somewhat wrinkled, covered with furfuraceous 

 scales Gills white, or yello\vish white, fixed to the stem, ventricose and 

 sometimes nearly free. Stem 1-3 in. high, 1-4 lines thick, slightly incrassated 

 at the base, solid when young, becoming hollow with age, stuffed at the base, 

 sometimes slightly compressed, with a subfugacious flocculose ring about the 

 middle, above which it is slightly fibrillose, beneath it scaly like the pileus. — 

 M. J B. Spores -00012 X -00015 in.— W. G. S. 



It is the variety Ar/iianthinv.s, which is found in this country. 



32. Agaricus (Lepiota) polystictus. Berk. "Little brown 



Lepiota." 



Inodorous, fleshy ; cuticle continuous, or broken into scales ; 

 stem attenuated downwards, stuffed with cottony threads, scaly 

 below the fugacious ring, silky above ; gills crowded, rounded be- 

 fore and behind, free, white, with a pale-yellow tinge. — Eng. Fl. 

 Y.p. 9. Berh. Out. p. 95. 



Amongst short grass by roadsides. 



Pileus 1\ in. across, not at all campanulate, expanded, and broaflly. obtusely 

 umbonate, flesh thick in tl e centre, firm and tough, the cuticle broken into 

 minute flat scales of a rich red brown. GiJs numerous, unequal, rounded be- 

 fore and behind, broad, ventricose quite free, the margin serrulate, white, 

 with a slight yellowish tinge. Stem 1 in. high, | in. thick in the middle. 



