118 AGARICINI. 



330. Agaxicus (Hebeloma) rimosus. Bull, "Cracked 



Hebeloma." 



Plleus fleshy, thin, campaiiulate, silky, fibrous, expanded longi- 

 tudinally, cracked ; stem solid, firm, nearly smooth, bulbous, 

 whitish mealy above ; gills free, subventricose, brownish clay- 

 coloured.— i^r. E'picr. p. 174. Eng. Fl. y.p. 97. Bull. t. 388. 

 Berk.Outl.t.SJ.o. Soiv.t. 323. Grev.t.l28. Batsch.f. 107. 

 Kromhh. t. 44,/. 10-12. Jungh. t. 6,/. 6, var. Gard. Chron. (1861), 



Woods and waste places. June — Sept. [United States.] 



Subgregarious. Pilens 1-2 in. broad, shining, satiny, with adpressed fib- 

 rillse, brown-yellow, at first campanulate, then nearly plane and umbonate, 

 cracked in a radiate manner, the inner substance appearing through the 

 cracks of a yellow hue, sometimes the cuticle cracks concentrically, and the 

 lower edge of the cracked portions is reflected so as to present a squarrose 

 appearance ; gills ventricose, adnexed, at first mealy white, the margin 

 opaque, then olivaceous, with the margin white and crenate. Stem li-2^ 

 in. high, distinct from the pileus, sub-bulbous, nearly white, fibrillose at the 

 base, clothed above with white mealy scales. — M.J.B. Spores '0004 X 

 •00028 in. 



331. Agaxicus (Kebeloxna) auricomus. BaUch. "Golden-haired 



Hebeloma." • 



Small, thin ; pileus yellowish, margin striate, stem fistulose ; 

 gills fixed, ventricose, whitish, then brown. — Fr. Epia\ p.llb. 

 Batsch.f. 21. Berk. Outl.p. 155. 



In woods. [Cincinnati.] 



Included by Fries as a variety of Ag. descissus. Pileus much cracked. 



332. Agaxicus (Hebeloma) txechispoxus. Berk. " Bough- 



spored Hebeloma." 



Pileus submembranaceous, convex, strongly umbonate, at first 

 viscid, but soon dry and silky; stem slightly striate and mealy; 

 gills ventricose, emarginate, scarcely adnate, pinkish-grey ; spores 

 rough. — Berk. Outl.p. 156, t. 8,/. 6. Ann. N.H. no. 71. 



In woods, amongst fern. August. 



Pileus 1 in. broad, convex, strongly umbonate ; margin thin, viscid, but 

 soon dry and satiny ; umbo tawny, margin paler, mth a slight livid tinge ; 

 gills ventricose, emarginate, pinkish grey, extreme margin denticulate. 

 Spores bistre-brown, subreniform, covered with granules. Stem 2 in. bigh, 

 2 lines thick, white, slightly striate under a lens, and farinulent, nearly equal, 

 except at the base, the outer coat of which is cottony. — M. J. B. 



