138 AGAEICINI. 



In rich pastures. Common. Esculent. [United States.] 



var. pratensis. Vitt, Distinguished by the small rufous 

 scales of the pileus, and the flesh having a slight pink tinge. 

 In pastures. Kings Cliffe. E. Bergholt. 



var. silvicola. Vitt. Pileus smooth, shining ; stem elon- 

 gated, somewhat bulbous. — Fr. Epicr.p. 213. Krombh. t.2S,f. 

 8. PauI.t.lSS. 



In woods. 



var. hoztensis. Auct. Pileus fibrillose or squamulose, 

 brownish, var. elongatus, Gard. Chron.l8Q0,p. lOGl, Jig. var. 

 Buchana?ii, Gard. Chron. ISQO) p. 1039, Jig. 



This is the cultivated form. 



var. vaporarius. Otto. Pileus even, with a brown pilose 

 coat, which also covers the stem and leaves transverse fragments 

 thereon as it elongates. — Kronibh. t. 26, J. 14, 15. Paul. 1. 132. 

 Letell. t. 659. 



var. rufescens. Berk. A distinct variety, which is rufous, 

 like A. vaccinus, and whose flesh turns of a bright red when 

 bruised. The gills are at first perfectly white. — Berk. Outl. 1. 10, 

 /.3. 



Pileus 2-5 in. broad, at first eonvex, then plano-convex, -white, silky, or 

 clothed Avith reddish-brown, adpressed fibrillse, collected into little fas- 

 cicles, cuticle easily separating from the flesh, projecting beyond the gills 

 and often curled back, fleshy ; flesh firm, thick, white, more or less stained 

 with red dish -brown, especially when bruised ; gills very unequal, at first of 

 a beautiful pink, free, obtuse, and sometimes forked behind, broad in the 

 middle, at length dark, mottled with the brownish purple, minute, sub- 

 elliptic spores, the edge white and minutely denticulate. Stem 2-3 in. high, 

 ^-f in. thick, nearly equal or sub-bulbous, white, beautifully but minutely 

 silky, furnished with a thick spongy ring, generally above the middle, firm, 

 when quite young there is a fine silky universal veil. — M.J.B. Spores 

 •00032 X -0002 in.— TF. G. S. (PI. V.,f. 26.) 



391. Agaricus (Fsalliota) silvaticus. Schceff. " Wood 



Psalliota." 



Pileus fleshy, thin, campanulate, then expanded, gibbous, 

 fibrillose or squamulose ; stem hollow, unequal, whitish ; gills 

 free, crowded, rather thin, dry, reddish, then brown. — Fr.Epicr. 

 p.2U. Schceff. t. 24:2. Kro?7ihh.t. 23, J. 9, 10. Berk. Outl. p. 167. 



In woods. [Cincinnati.] 



Pileus brownish, smell strong. Stem longer and more slender than in A. 

 eampestris, 3 in. and more long, ^\n. thick. Ring distant, variable. Pileus 

 3 in. broad, floccose, scaly, disc at length smooth, sub-ferruginoas, scales 

 nifescent or tawny ; margin cracked. Spores '00017 X '00025 in. 



