b AGAEICINI. 



Variable in size and colour. Pileus 4 in. or more, viscid when moist, shining 

 when dry, at first there are a few broad scales, but these soon vanish ; the 

 cuticle easily peels off. Stem 6 in. or more hi!,'h, ^-1 in. thick, attenuated 

 upwards, obtuse at the base, where it is furnished with a volva, which is 

 adnate for about an inch, and then, in general, closely surrounding it like a 

 sheath, but sometimes the margin is expanded. The volva i? easily overlooked 

 if care be not taken to dig up the very base of the stem. Gills free, ventri- 

 cose^ broadest in front, often imbricated, white. Smell scarcely any. — Eng. 

 Fl. Spores spherical -00032 X 'OOOSS in.— TF. G. S. 



2. Agairicus (Amanita) Ceciliae. B. ^ Br. "Grey 



ringless Amanita, ' 



Pileus at first ovate, then campanulate, clothed with scattered 

 subpersistent warts ; margin grooved ; stem stuffed, silky above, 

 squamulose below : volva soon breaking up. — B. ^^ Br. Ann. N.H, 

 no. 663. Berk. Outl. t. 3,/. 5. Fr. Icon, t.lll Price f. 112. 



In woods. Aug. Sept. Common in Epping Forest. 



Colour mouse-grey. Distinguished by its less perfect volva and stuffed stem, 

 which does not simply contain a few cottony fibres, as that of A. cagiaatus. 

 Pileus at first semi-elliptic, densely and uniformly clothed with the thick 

 mouse-coloured volva, which at length splits irregularly below from a slight 

 prominence at the base of the stem, but by no means vaginate; then cam- 

 panulate, obtuse, 3-4 in. across, margin sulcate, dingy yellow, either quite 

 smooth, or more or less clothed with the depressed or even acutely warty re- 

 mains of the volva. Stem 4 in. or more high, |in. thick, attenuated upwards, 

 above silky, transversely or obliquely rimose, below squamulose from frag- 

 ments of the volva, spongy within, with occasional cavities, not truly bulbous | 

 ring none gills thick, sometimes forked or anastomosing, the shorter ones 

 abruptly truncate behind, quite free, at length remote, interstices venous. 

 Smell none. Taste sweet.— xl/. /. B. Spores oval '00034 X -OOOGin.- IF. G. S. 



3. Agaricus (Amaxiita) adnatus. Smith. "Adnate gilled 



Amanita." 



Pileus fleshy, firm, smooth, rather moist, convex, then expanded, 

 buff beneath the cuticle ; margin extending beyond the gills ; 

 stem stuffed, at length hollow, pale buff, rough, fibrillose ; ring 

 none ; volva lax, adnate, or almost obsolete, white, pubescent, re- 

 maining in woolly patches on the pileus ; gills white, crowded, truly 

 adnate. Saund. Sf Sm. t. 20. 



Woody places, amongst oak and holly. Kingsdon Wood and 



Alfoxen, Combe, amongst the Quantock Hills, Somerset. — 



{J.A.C.) 



Pileus fleshy, very firm, not brittle, smooth, rather moist, pale buff-yellow, 

 2|-3in. ac-^oss, margin exceeding the gills ; gills white, crowded, truly adnate j 

 stem stuffed, at length hollow, pale buff, rough, and fibrillose, 2-4 in. high j 

 ring absent ; volva lax, adnate, or almost obsolete, white and pubescent, re- 

 maining in woolly masses on the pileus ; flesh firm, almost rigid, as in Rns- 

 siila, white, stained sienna-buffunder the cuticle of the pileus; spores slightly 

 oval, -0004 X -0003 in.— TF. G. S 



