AGAEICIXl. Ill 



mostly deflesed ; stem abo^e fhe ring paler, fibrillose ; gills umber, witb a 

 rosy tinge, adnate, with a decurrent tooth, rather distant ; spores brownish. 

 —J/. /. B. Allied to A. pudicus, &c., but distinct in its very dark head, and 

 umber adnato-decurrent gills. Taste like that of the common mushroom, 

 with a slight acidity. 



Sub-Gen. 20. HEBELOiiA. Fr. S. M. i. p. 249. 



(Including Inocyhe. Fr. Mon. Hym.) 



Spores for the most part clay-coloured, or in Inocyhe ferruginous 

 brown ; veil of a different texture from the pellicle of the pileus, 

 or in Inocyhe homogeneous with the fibres of the pileus ; pileus 

 fleshy, pelliculose, damp, subviscid, or (in //loc^Je) fibrous ; stem 

 confluent and homogeneous with the hymenophore, fleshy- 

 fibrous, ringless ; gills sinuato-adnate. 



Hab. All terrestrial. {PL IV., f. 20.) 



All the species are gregarious, and many so similar in appearance as to be 

 with difficulty distinguished from each other. Some are scentless, several 

 smell like rotten pears, and many have a disgusting odour and are poisonous ; 

 none are esculent. Fries, in his ' Monographia Hymenomycetum Suecise,' 

 has introduced a new sub-genus a.her Reheloma, which he names Inocyhe, dis- 

 tinguished b7 the pileus being silky -fibrous, and having a few other unimpor- 

 tant characters ', but such characters seeming insufficient, we have preferred 

 to adhere to the views expressed in the ' Epicrisis,' and to retain Inocyhe as a 

 section of Heheloma. — W. G. S. 



A. Hymexocybe. 

 Sect. 1. Veiled, odour mild, 



308. Agaricus (Hebeloma) punctatus. Fr. "Punctate 



Hebeloma,"' 



Pileus fleshy, nearly plane, silky, becoming smooth, disc dotted 

 with darker papillae; stem hollow, equal, fibrillose, silky, grow- 

 ing pale, whitish-pruinose above ; gills arcuate, fixed, narrow, 

 pallid, ferruginous, or bay-coloured. — Fr. Epicr.p. 179. Ann. Nat. 

 Hist. no. 906, 



In pine woods. Sept, Near Gainsborough. 



Pileus 1-2 in, broad, at first convex, soon becoming flattened, disc obtuse 

 and swollen, umber about the centre, at length depressed ; stem 2-4 in. high, 

 2-4 lines thick, 



309. Agazicus (Hebeloma) veirsipellis. Fr. "Changeable 



Hebeloma," 



Pileus fleshy, convexo-plane, disc viscid, with a tenacious 

 gluten, beyond this silky-agglutinate, then smooth ; stemfistu- 

 lose, tough, whitish and silky, pruinose above ; gills rounded, 



