110 FUNGI. [Affaricus. 



various in stature, sometimes very short and thick, mottled longitudi- 

 nally with blue within, the centre white. JRing in general fugacious. 

 Smell disagreeable, like that of rancid ointment. Small specimens 

 with the gluten quite washed off by heavy rain are sometimes with 

 difficulty to be distinguished from A. precox. 



Subgenus 31. Hypholoma ; (from ufyj, a web, and Xw/^a, a 

 fringe.) Veil fugacious, woven, fixed to the margin of the pileus 

 and stem. Stem firm, subsolid, distinct from the pileus. Pileus 

 fleshy, convex, then plane. Gills adnate, close, subdeliquescent, 

 Asci conspicuous. — Ccespitose, growing on ivood. 



291. A. lachrymabimdus. Bull, (weeping ' Agaric) ; pileus 

 fleshy piloso-squamose whitish-brown, gills umber, stem hol- 

 low fibrillose. Bull. t. 525. f 3, 194. Sow. t. 41. With, v, 4. 

 p. 255. Purt. V. 2 c^y 3. n. 964. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 1. p. 287. 



a rev. Fl. Ed. p. 391. 



Chiefly about the stumps of felled trees. July — Nov. Common. — 

 Pileus 2 — 4 inches broad, at first somewhat campanulate, at length 

 expanded, fleshy, the margin thin, with a few fragments of the veil 

 attached to it, firm, pale reddish-brown darker in the centre, fibrilloso- 

 squamulose ; flesh pale umber. Gills at first pale then reddish-brown, 

 subventricose towards the base ; slightly attached. Stem 2 — 3 inches 

 high, 3 lines or more thick, pale-umber towards the base, whitish 

 above, subincrassated below, subflexuous, fibrillose or squamuloso- 

 fibrillose from the remains of the floccose ring ; above squamuloso- 

 pubescent, truly fistulose, the inside downy with a small bundle of 

 cottony fibres running down from the pileus; firm, elastic, pale-umber 

 within. Odour disagreeable. 



292. A. lateritius, Schceif. {large fasciculate Agaric) ; pileus 

 fleshy obtuse tawny inclining to brick-red, gills at length 

 slightly green, stem stuffed stout. Schoeff. t. 49. f. 6. Pers. 

 Syn. p. 421. Fr. SysL Myc. v. 1. p. 288. Grev. Fl. Ed. 

 p. 392. — A. amarus. Bull. t. 30. 562.-/4. pomposus, Bolt. t. 5. 

 — A. fascicularis, var. 2. Purt. v. 3. p. '225. var. 3. With. 

 t\ 4. p. 239. 



Stumps of trees, &c. May — Oct. Frequent. — Gregarious, ctespi- 

 tose ; but not in general so much tufted as the next. Pileus 2 — 3 

 inches or more broad, fleshy, always very obtuse, not conic, at length 

 expanded, ochraceous ; tawny in the centre, paler at the margin where 

 it is slightly silky ; when young it is silky all over and in proportion 

 as it becomes smooth it is more deeply coloured. Veil stained with 

 the sporules, adhering in fragments to the margin. Gills rounded 

 behind, adnate vv'ith a tooth, scarcely green, clouded with the sporules, 

 the margin uneven. Sporules elliptic, brown-purple, but not with a 

 ferruginous tint, as in A. fascicularis. Stem 3 inches or more high, 

 2 — 3 lines thick, often thickest below stuffed, yellow with a more or 

 less rufescent tinge, not green ; silky when young, distinctly squamulose 

 or fibrillose, firm, at length fistulose, but the walls are as thick or twice 

 as thick as the diameter of the canal. 2\tste very bitter and nauseous. 

 — When solitary, it is often very handsome : the centre of the brightest 

 brick-red with superficial patches of down. It is very difficult to 



