114 AGAEICINI. 



B. IxocYBE. — Cuticle fibrous, dry. 



Sect. 1. Squarrosi — pileus squarrose. 



316. Agaricus (Hebeloma) relicinus. Fr. " Moss Hebe- 



loraa." 



Pileus fleshy, thin, conical, then expanded, obtuse, squarrose, 

 with tomentose scales, stem solid, soft, equal, floccoso-squamose; 

 gills adnexed, crowded, yellow, then olivaceous. — Fr. Epicr.p. 

 171. Enff.Fl.y.p.de. 



In marshy fir woods, amongst Sphagnum. 



Gregarious ; pileus 1 in. across, at first conic obtuse, 4 lines high, then 

 expanded ; gills close, alternate, at length dingy-oHve ; stem 2 in. high, 

 2 lines thick. — Fries. 



317. Agazicus (Hebeloma) flocculentus. Poll. *- Woolly 



Hebeloma." 



Pileus somewhat fleshy, hemispherical, then expanded, obtuse, 

 floccoso-squamose, the scales of the disc erect, and sharp ; stem 

 solid, slender, squamoso-fibrillose, powdered with white dust 

 above ; gills seceding, thin, toothed, of a pallid clay colour. — 

 F?\ Jlon. Hi/m.i.p. 336. Ag. lanuginosus. Fr. Epic?\ p. 171. Eng. 

 Fl.T.pA)6. VaiU.t.lSJ.4.-6. Pers.Ic.t.S,/. 4. Bull. t. 370. 



On the ground. 



Inodorous ; pileus 1 in. or less broad, campanulato-convex, obtuse, then 

 expanded, sub-umbonate, clothed with close squamuloso-squaiTOse down, 

 •which at length becomes obsolete, and leaves the pileus yellowish ; flesh of 

 the pileus and stem dirty white; gills broad, ventricose, close, pallid, at 

 length brownish; stem 1^-2 in. high, 1-2 lines thick, equal, tough, covered 

 with brown fibrillose down, apex minutely pruinose.— i'Vi^. 



318. Agaricus (Hebeloma) plumosus. Bolt. "Downy 



Hebeloma." 



Pileus rather fleshy, convexo-plane, disc squarrose, with erect 

 fasciculate flocci, margin fibrillose ; stem stufl'ed, then hollow, 

 slender, flexuose, floccoso-squamose, naked above; gills sub- 

 adnate, scarcely crowded, ventricose, quite entire, dingy. — Fr. 

 Epicr.p. 172. Bolt. t. 33. Eng. Fl. v. p. 96. 



In moist pine woods. Aug. 



Pileus \\ in. broad, thickly covered with little downy tufts ; stem 4 in. 

 high, 1 line or more thick. 



