154 AGARIOINI. 



434. Agazicus (Deconica) coprophilus. Bull, "Dung 



Deconica." 



Pileus somewhat deshy, hemispherical, then expanded, mn- 

 bonate, even; stem subfistulose, attenuated above, prainose, be- 

 coming smooth ; gills arcuate, sub-decurrent, broad, livid-brown. 

 Fr.Epicr.ih22^. Bull. t. 666, f. 3. Ann. N.H.no. 6Sd. 



On dung. Rare. 



Pileus when very young white and downy, sub-hemispherical, clothed with 

 little white superficial scales, brown, at length smooth and pale umber, 

 darker at the obtuse apex, slightly fleshy. Stem flexuous, slightly attenuated 

 upwards, whitish, shining, at first scaly, like the pileus, within which it is 

 pruinose. Gills nearly plane, ventricose, adnato-arcuate or sub-decurrent, 

 umber brown. — 31. J. B. 



435. Agaricus (Deconica) bullaceus. Bull. "Mottled- 



gilled Deconica." 



Pileus somewhat fleshy, hemispherical, then expanded, smooth, 

 at length umbonate, striate to the middle ; stem fistulose, short, 

 equal, fibrillose ; gills adnate, triangular, plane, crowded, fer- 

 ruginous-brown. — Fi\Ep{cr. p. 229 (notEng.Fl.Y.p. 114). Bull. 

 t. 56G./. 2. A. stercorarius. Eng. Fl. Y.p. 111. Kromhh. t. 3,/. 

 33, 34. 



On horse dung. 



Pileus i-1 in. broad, sub-eamose, sub-umbonate, umber, almost tawny, 

 slightly viscid, moist, shining, quite smooth, even ; in infancy flat, then 

 hemispherical, when old quite plane, the margin transparent, slightly 

 notched ; when dry pale. Gills umber, mottled with the brown-purple spores, 

 broad, plane, witli a decurrent tooth, or ventricose and emarginate. Stem 

 H-2 in. high, 1 line thick, umber, tough, flexuous, below squamuloso-fibril- 

 lose, with a little down at the base, above shining, but minutely pubescent, 

 striate with the decurrent teeth of the gills, fistulose, but with a few fibrils 

 within, flesh dark umber; when young there is a narrow ring. — M.J.B. 

 Spores with an obscure apiculus at both ends, '0004 X "00028 in. — W. G, S. 



436. Agaricus (Deconica) physaloides. Bull. "Dung 



Deconica." 



Pileus somewhat fleshy, campanulate, then expanded, even, 

 rather viscid ; stem fistulose, flexile, closely fibrillose, bright brown 

 at the base ; gills decurrent, crowded, sub -ferruginous. — Fr. 

 Epicr. p. 229. Bull. t. 366,/. 1. Paul. t. 122,/. 6. var. Gard. 

 Chron. Sept. 25, 1852. Ann. N.H. no. 690. 



On dung, in mossy places, &c. 



Spores '0005 in. long, "0003 in. broad. Pileus 3-4 lin. broad, purplish- 

 brown, paler about the margin, at length umbonate, and depressed round 

 the umbo. Spores -00034 X '0002 in. \_Pl. V.J. 32.] 



