AGAEICINI. 



195 



Stem solid, elastic, 2-3 in. long, |-lin. thick, curved, ascendin-^, rooting', 

 clad with a dense, velvety, soft, blackish umber down ; pileus compact, ex- 

 centric, 2-4 in. or more broad, dry, ferruginous ; gills adnate or decurrent, 

 branched at the base and somewhat anastomosing, yellowish. 



549. 



Faxillus panuoides. Fr. " Pale Paxillus." 



Pileus fleshy, dimidiate, concliate, at length smooth, dirty- 

 yellow, elongated behind, sessile or stipitate ; gills decurrent, 

 crowded, branched, crisped, yellow. — Fr. Epicr. p. 318. Buxh. 

 ii. t. 49,/. 2. ^ov\ t. 403. Berh. Out!, t. 12, f. 6. Letell. t. 665. 

 Eng. Fl.Y.p. 102. 



In cellars, on sawdust, &c. Coed Coch, &c. 



Pileus 1-4 in. broad, white, often tinged with violet, very soft to the touch 

 in consequence of the fine-matted silkj' pubescence with which it is clothed, 

 either perfectly sessile, or furnished with a spurious stem which is silky like 

 the pileus and most beautifully tinged with violet ; gills variously anastomo- 

 sing and wrinkled, yellow with abundant oval ferruginous spores. — M.J.B. 

 Spores -OL'OIS X •0U013 in. 



Gen. 7. HYGROFHORXTS, Fr. Epicr. p. 320. 



Spores white ; veil, when present, 

 universal ; stem confluent with thehy- 

 menophore ; gills sharp-edged ; trama 

 similar in substance to that of the pi- 

 leus. {Fig. 49.) 



Hab. On the ground, mostly late in 



the autumn, some in the summer. 



Most of the species are handsome and easily 

 recognized. From Agaricus this genus differs 

 by the manifest trama, the substance of which 

 is similar to that of the pileus ; from Lactariui 

 a.nd Pi ('ssv.Ia by the trama not being vesicular, 

 but subflcccose, and intermixed with granules ; 

 and from its nearest ally, Cantkarellus, by the 

 Fig. 49. sharp-edged gills. In Corfinarw.s, Paxilliis, 



and Gomjjhidius, the spores are coloured, and the gills lose their colour. 



This genus is distinguished by the hymenophore being changed into a 

 waxy mass, and at length detached from the trama. Many species are sapid 

 and edible.— 17.6-'.^'. 



Sect. 1. Limacium. 



650. Hygrophorus chrysodon. Fr. "Yellow downy 



Hygrophorus." 



White; pileus fleshy, convexo-plane, viscid, margin involute; 

 stem stuffed, subequal, squamulose (yellowish^, floccose above ; 



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