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Taste bitter. Pileus li-3 in. broad, margin at first inflesed, then repand, 

 scales concentric, yellow, scarcely innate j ^lls rather thin, close, adnata, 

 without a tooth, at length ferruginous ; stem 3 in. high, 2-3 lines thick, 

 stuffed, at length hollow, yellow ; ring entire, close to the gills. — Fries. 



302. Agaxicus (Pholiota) Junonius. Fr. "Beautiful 



Pholiota." 



Pileus fleshy, convexo-plane, obtuse, when dry smooth ; stem 

 solid, equal, incurved, even, furfuraceous above the ring ; gills 

 adnate, crowded, yellow, then tawny. — Fr. Epicr. p. 1G7. Sv. Bot. 

 t. 584. Saund. ^ Sm. t. 18,/. 2. 



On trunks. Oct. Highgate. — M.C.C. 



Single, or in small tufts, of a beautiful deep brownish-orange, minutely 

 fibrillose when moist, smooth when dry; gills at first yellow, then of a deep 

 cinnamoQ-brown; spores nearly ferruginous. Fries, to whom a drawing of 

 our specimens was submitted, refers them without doubt to this species, which 

 he describes as rare everywhere. Spores oval, or with an apiculus at one 

 end, -00027 X 'OuOlZ in. 



303. Agaricus (Pholiota) mutabilis. Schceff. "Changeable 



Pholiota.  



Pileus fleshy, convex, then expanded, smooth, becoming pale; 

 margin thin ; stem stuffed, then hollow, rigid, rough with scales, 

 dark-brown at the base ; gills adnato-decurrent, crowded, pallid, 

 then cinnamon colour. — Fr.Epicr. p. 169. Schceff. t. 9. Lenz.f.2^). 

 Kromhh. t. 73,/. l-9a. Bull. t. 513, 0. P. R. Badli. i. 1. 16,/ 4a. 

 Gonn. ^' Puibh. iy. t. 6. Price, f. 123. Berk. Outl. t. 8,/ 3. Eng. 

 Fl. y. p. 92. Huss. ii. t. 27. 



On trunks, especially lime stumps, or on the ground. Esculent. 



[United States.] 



Csespitose. Pileus expanded, obtuse, cinnamon, becoming pale when dry ; 

 centre of the pileus at length bright tawny, quite smooth, the margin thin 

 transparent, flesh white; gills broad, rounded behind, or sub-decurrent, pale 

 umber; stem slender, fistulose, dark-brown, smooth above, or minutely pul- 

 verulent, and pale. below squamulose, ringwoven, sub-erect.— J/./. 5. Spores 

 •00045 X -00025 in. 



304. Agaxicus (Pholiota) mazginatus . BatscJi. "Marginate 



Pholiota." 



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

 hygrophanous ; margin striate ; stem fistulose, soft, not scaly, 

 pruinose above the fugacious ring, base darker, clothed with 

 whitish velvety down ; gills adnate, crowded, watery-cinnamon 

 coloured. — Fr. Epicr. p. 168. Batsch.f. 207 (208 var.) Krornhh. 

 «.73,/5-6. 



