Agaricus.] FUNGI. 113 



—A. spadiceus, Schceff. t. 60. — A. spadiceo-grisetis, Schceff. t. 237. 

 — A. hydropliibis, Bull. ^.511. 



About stumps of trees, &c. July — Nov. Probably not uncommon. 

 King's Cliffe, Norths. Canterbury. Mev. M. J. Berheley. — Densely 

 fasciculate, compressed and irregular from its crowded mode of growth. 

 Pileus nearly 3 inches broad, fleshy, obtuse, sometimes umhilicate, at 

 first tawny-brown, fibrillose at the margin from the white veil, at length 

 quite expanded, broadly umbonate, pale when dry but marked here and 

 there with darker shades ; the margin generally retaining its colour, 

 corrugate, scarcely striate. GUIs close, adnate, umber. Sporules 

 umber-purple. Stem 4 — 5 inches high, 2 lines thick, confluent, shining, 

 smooth to the naked eye, but under a lens satiny, with here and there 

 a few fihrilloe, wavy, fi.stulose, white, umber within. — This is the true 

 A. stipatus, of which Schceff. t. GO, is a good representation : Bulliard's 

 figure is a slightly diflerent form of this polymorphous species, which 

 occurred at Canterbury. A. concinnus. Bolt., is very doubtful. — The 

 following distinct forms, or perhaps species, are worthy of notice : — 



a. On wood. Aug. Margate. — Tufted. Pileus scarce 1 inch broad, 

 very pale ochraceous scarcely altered when dry, clothed with a few 

 minute adpressed squamulae ; margin fringed Avith fragments of the veil. 

 Gills narrow, shaped exactly like those of A. CandoUiauus, but pale 

 ochraceous with a pale cinnamon tint. Stem H inch high, pruinoso- 

 fibrillose and striate above with a few scattered fibrilla?. 



b. On the ground, sticks, &c. Beeston, Notts. Oct. — Solitary. 

 Pileus 1| inch broad, ^ of an inch high, campannlate, tawny brown, 

 margin transparent. Gills pale umber, then umber-cinereous, adnate, 

 ascending. Stem 3^ inches high, ^ of an inch thick, above, \ at the 

 base, attenuated upwards, white, squamulose within the pileus, below 

 slightly fibrillose, strigose at the base. Flesh of the pileus and of the 

 centre of the stem umber, the outer coat white. 



c. Grassy places, generally near roads. Kirriemuir. March, April, 

 Klotzsch, 3ISS. — '^Pileus H — 2 inches broad, subcarnose, convex, 

 nearly plane, smooth, ochraceo-fuscous, plane and rugulose when dry. 

 Gills adnate, white, clouded with black-brown. Stem 2 — 3 inches 

 high, 2 — 3 lines thick, fistulose, white, smooth, striate above and 

 obsoletely mealy. Veil white, verv funacious, fringing the pileus." 

 Klotzsch, MSS. 



299. A. CandoUidmis, Fr. (De CcmdoUes Ar/aric) ; pileus 

 subcarnose even, at lent^tli dirty-wliite, gills fixed piiikisli 

 changinpf colour, stem fibrillose, veil fringing the pileus. Fr. 

 Syst. Mi/c. V. 1. ;;. 297. — A. appcndieulatus, Bull. t. 392. — 

 A. mutabilis, Fl. Ban. t. 774. 



On the ground. Sept. Oct. Probably not uncommon. Botanic 

 Garden, (Jlasgow. Klotzsch. King's Clifle, Norths. Pir. M. J. 

 Berlulri/. — Pileus 2 — 4 inches broad, cx|)anded, hemisph:erico-cam- 

 panulatc ; margin split and fringed with the woven veil. Gills pinkish, 

 iffX first white, rounded behind, narrow. Stem 3 inches high, striate, 

 fibrillose above, strigose at the base. A. appendiculdtus, of Sow. 

 With, anil Purt. belongs cither to this or the foregoing species ; n\u{ 

 not, I think, to .1. jtnrro.r. 



300. A. Jdnillosus, Pers. ( /diriliosc Agaric) ; j)ileu3 sulnneni- 

 branaceous dirty-white, gills adnate purple-black, stem elon- 



