114 FUNGI. [Ar/aricus. 



gated fibrilloso-squamose. Pers. Syn. p. 424. Fr. Syst. Myc. 

 V. I. p. 297. 



On the ground, amongst leaves. Spring and Autumn. Probably 

 not uncommon. Ashton, Norths., &c. lieu. M. J. Berkeley — " Pileus 

 when moist livdd, substriate ; when dry, white, not striate ; often 

 fibrilloso-squamose. Stem 3 inches high, 2 — 3 lines thick, beset with 

 villous fasciculated scales." Fr. I. c. 



301. A. hulldceus, Bull, (small dung Agaric) ; pileus hemi- 

 spbserical submembranaceous rufous, margin striate, gills plane 

 very broad cinnamon, stem short tomentose. Bull. t. 566,/. 2. 

 Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 1. p. 297. 



On dung. Sept.— Oct. King's Cliffe, &c. Norths. Rev. 31. J. 

 Berkeley. — Pileus f of an inch broad, at first chocolate, striate ; when 

 dry dirty tawny ochre, sparkling with innate atoms; when young, clothed 

 with a few white scales towards the margin, arising from the ring. 

 Gills very broad, nearly horizontal, adnate with a little tooth, brown 

 with a tinge of umber or cinnamon ; sporules black. Stein about 1 

 inch high, not 1 line thick, but varying in height according to the 

 depth of the dung from which it takes its rise, often curved, pilose 

 when young, then clothed with minute fibrillse, hollow, very brittle, 

 dark-umber within. Fries has not met with this species. My specimens 

 accord so nearly with Bulliard's figure that I cannot conceive them 

 distinct, though the gills are not so red as there represented. 



302. A. cernuus, Miill. {nodding Agaric) ; pileus submem- 

 branaceous livid whitish when dry, gills adnate cinereous-black, 

 stem clothed above with white pulverulent scales. Fl. Dan. 

 t. 1008, /. 1. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 1. p. 298. — A. farinulefitus, 

 Schceff. t. 205. 



Road-sides, on the ground amongst chips, &c. Aug. — Nov. Thorn- 

 haugh. King's Cliffe, Norths. Rev. M. J. 5erMey.— Solitary or 

 subcaespitose. Pileus H inch broad, membranaceous, smooth, shining, 

 at first pale livid-brown," almost white when dry, scarcely striate, when 

 young ovate very obtuse, then subcampanulate. Ring woven, breaking 

 up into little lacinise which fringe the margin, fugacious. Gills not 

 very numerous, cinereous, clouded, the margin white, not ventricose. 

 Sporules oblong, quaternate ; appearing black when collected in a 

 heap, but, viewed separately, brownipurple. Stem 4 inches high, 2 

 lines thick, fistulose, attenuated upwards, flexuous often nodding, 

 downy at the base and squamuloso-furfuraceous within the pileus ; 

 more or less striate, especially above. Very brittle. Occasionally a 

 few scattered fragments of the veil are attached to the epidermis, and 

 the stem is fibrillose. 



303. A. bifrons, Berk, (two-faced Agaric) ; pileus submem- 

 branaceous campanulate obtuse ochraceous-brown tinged with 

 red, when dry pale-tan, gills pinkish-cinereous, stem naked. 



In ditches, amongst sticks. Sept. Bedford Purlieus, Thornhaugh, 

 Norths. Rev. M. J. Berkeley.— Pileus f of an inch broad, furnished 

 at first with a minute fibrillose very evanescent veil, rugulose, ochra- 

 ceous-brown, more or less tinged with red ; mar^i'm thin, transparent. 

 Gills adnate, moderately broad, cinereous shaded with pink ; margin 

 white, composed of minute wavy teeth ; sporules brown-purple, quater- 



