AGARICINI. 107 



Odour strong and pungent. Pileus whitish or yellowish, broken up into 

 scales, sometimes smooth if dry, viscid when moist, disc piano-truncate j 

 stem within at the base of a rhubarb colour, ring fugacious, appendiculate. 



296. Agaricus (Pholiota) comosus. Fr. '• Hairy Pholiota." 



Pileus fleshy, convex, obtuse, viscid, sprinkled with evanescent, 

 superficial, floccose scales ; stem solid, slightly bulbous, white, 

 as well as the evanescent, floccose ring ; gills rather decurrent, 

 quite entire, white, becoming of a brownish clay colour. — Fr. Epicr, 

 p. 165, Bolt. t. 42. 



On trunks. 



Pileus 3 in. broad, brownish, with the scales paler. Flesh compact, white. 



297. Agaricus (Pholiota) squairosus. JMiill, " Scaly 



Pholiota." 



Pileus fleshy, campanulate, convex, then expanded, dry ; stem 

 stuffed, attenuated at the base, squarrose, as well as the pileus, 

 with crowded darker, innate, revolute scales ; gills sub-decurrent, 

 crowded, narrow, pallid, olivaceous, then ferruginous. — Fr. Epicr. 

 p. 166. Bull.t.26Q. ScJicFf.t.61. Sow.t.284.. Grev.t.2. Huss. 

 i.t.8. Eng. Fl.Y.p.91. var. Mulleri. Saund. ^ Sm. i. 18,/. 1. 



On trunks of trees. Common. [S. Carolina.] 



Csespitose. Pileus 2-5 in. across, firm, convex, expanded, obtusely um- 

 bonate, tawny-yellow, clothed with rich brown scales, flesh yellow near the 

 surface ; gills at first yellowish, then pale-olive, changing to ferruginous, 

 broad, rounded behind, and adnate or sub-decurrent. Stem 3-7 in. high, ^-1 

 in. thick, at first pale, then croceo-ferruginous, solid, pithy in the centre, 

 equal, or attenuated at the base from the tufted mode of growth, fibrillose 

 and squarrose, with reflexed scales, above the ring very pale yellow and 

 smooth. Ring near the apex, radiato-floccose, rich brown, inclining to orange. 

 Odour disagreeable. - M. J. B. Spores •00022 X '00017 in. (PL I V., fig. 19.; 



298. Agaricus (Pholiota) aurivellus. Batscli. "Golden 



Pholiota." 



Pileus fleshy, campanulate, then convex, gibbous, slightly 

 viscid, variegated with darker, adpressed scales ; stem stuffed, 

 nearly equal, curved, clad with scattered, adpressed, floccose, fer- 

 ruginous-brown scales ; ring rather distant ; gills sinuated be- 

 hind, fixed, white, straw-coloured, then ferruginous-umber. — Fr. 

 Epicr. p. 165. Fl. Boruss. t. 386. Batsch. f. 115. Fl. Dan. t. 

 2074. Eng. Fl. v. p. 91. Ann. N.II. no. 680*. Saund. ^' Sm. t. 9. 



On trimks of trees. Eare. [S.Carolina.] 



Generally solitary, Pileus tawny, 3 in. across, when young hemispherical, 

 at length expanded ; gills fixed, very broad, plane, pallid olive, at length 

 ferruginous; stem hard, abrupt, various in length, incurved, sub-bulbous, 

 whitish, within rhubarb-coloured at the base, veiled at the very apex.— i^ri'es. 



