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290. Agaiicus (Pholiota) praecox. P. " Spring Pholiota." 



Pileus fleshy, soft, convexo-plane, obtuse, at length smooth, 

 even ; stem stuffed, then hollow, cylindrical, pubescent or mealy, 

 at length smooth, white as well as the ring ; gills emarginate, 

 adnexed, crowded, white, then brownish. — Fr. Epicr. p. 162. 

 Sch(eff. t. 217. Berk. Outl. t. 8/ 1. Eng. Fl. v. p. 107. Krombh. 

 t.6D,f. 11-16. Letell.t. 60S. 



In gardens and pastures. Spring. [United States.] 



Pileus about 2 in. across, very flesliy, flesh firm, white or pale buff, watery 

 near the gills, cuticle when moist subviscid, when dry resembling white kid 

 leather, retaining the impression of the fingers, somewhat te-selated, yel- 

 lowish or pale tawny. Gills adnexed or subadnate, moderately broad, not 

 ventricose, slightly hollowed out behind with a sub-decurrent tooth, pale 

 brownish purple, edge white or yellowish; stem l|-3 in. high, 2-3 lines 

 thick, sub-flesuous, equal or sub-bulbous, solid, but sometimes decidedly 

 hollow, juicy, white, or faintly shadel with buff, fibrillose, under a lens 

 sub-pubescent, ring near the top deflexed and striate, or attached in frag- 

 ments to the edge of the pileus; root strong, white, branched. — M.J.B. 

 Spores "OOOSl X •0002, sometimes inclined to be irregular in shape as in 

 some Hyporhodii. 



B. Truncigenei — on wood, sub-c^spitose. 



291. Agaricus (Pholiota) radicosus. Bull. " Eooting 



Pholiota." 



Pileus fleshy, equal, obtuse, even, smooth, spotted ; stem 

 solid, rooting ; above the distant ring mealy, below concentrically 

 squamulose ; gills free, ventricose, pallid, then reddish brown. 

 Fr. Epicr. p. 163. Bull. t. 160. Krombh. t. 62 f. 6-10. Eng. Fl. v. 

 p. 90. 



In woods. 



Pileus 3 in. or more broad, convex, fleshy, the whole covered at first with 

 a slimy web which leaves behind broad adpressed scales on the stem and 

 pileus, besides these there are many fine close silky scales, pallid ochre, mar- 

 gin downy, involute ; gills incarnato-ferruginous, pale, adnate, nearly hori- 

 zontal, minutely serrulate; stem 4 in. high, 1 in. thick, deeply rooting, firm, 

 solid, white within, ring thick, sub-erect, beneath the slimy coat silky and 

 furfaraceous, above the ring pruinose. Odour of prussic acid ; taste soon 

 disagreeable. — M.J. B. Spores "00034 X 'OOOlZin., oval, with an apiculusat 

 one end, somewhat irregular in shape. 



292. Agaricus (Pholiota) pudicus. 5/tZ^. " Modest Pholiota." 



Pileus fleshy, convex, then expanded, obtuse, even, dry, 

 smooth ; stem solid, sub-equal, even ; ring spreading, persis- 

 tent ; gills rounded behind, adnate, ventricose, whitish , then 

 tawny.— i^r. Epicr. p. 161. Bull. t. bdl , f. 2. JR. S. and L. 0. 

 Huss. ii. t. 31. Batt. t. S, A. Letell. t. 664:. 



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