Agarlcus.] FUNGT. 109 



slightly mottled from the shining through of the gills, viscid when moist, 

 shining and smooth when dry, obtuse, fleshy ; Jiesli white beiieatii the 

 epidermis, umber near the gills. GUIs very broad, adnate with a little 

 tooth, vcntricose or plane, mottled with the purple-brown sporules, 

 with at length a cinereous, sometimes a yellowish tinge. Stc77i 2 — 3 

 inches high, 1 — H line thick, very viscid, shining when dry with a 

 closely glued silkiness, fistulose ; ring more or less perfect, deflexed. — 

 This or some very closely allied species has unfortunately been often 

 gathered for A. oreadcs, which arises not so much from any real 

 similarity, as from complete ignorance what to gather. The true 

 Champiiinon has white gills, a solid tough stem and a dull, not at all 

 viscid, pileus ; the present species has dark-coloured gills, a hollow 

 stem and shining glutinous pileus ; besides which the whole substance 

 is totally diflcrent. The species which Sowerby mentions as proving 

 fatal, though figured in the same plate with this, a[)pears to be another, 

 as do those in t. 408. (marked t. 407.) Too much caution cannot be 

 used in the eating of dark-gilled Agarics, and the greatest credit is due 

 to Mr. Sowerby for his laudable exertions. The distinctions are again 

 pointed out in the little work entitled the " Mushroom and Champignon 

 Illustrated," by Mr. J. D. C. iSowerby's son, a most amiable and promis- 

 ing youth, cut off' as his hereditary talents were just being matured. An 

 instance is there recorded of a family at Lambeth, in 1830, suffering 

 from eating the^. virosiis ; but among the figures there is not one which 

 can with absolute certainty be referred to A. semiglobatus. 



289. A. versicolor, With, (^changeable-coloured Agaric) ; pileus 

 squamose greeuisli-buff, gills at first yellowish-white, then 

 dark-brown, stem stuft^"ed white changing to brown. With. v. 4. 

 p. 158. Fr. Sijst. Myc, v. l.p. 286. 



Near the bridge over the stream that feeds the large pool at Edgebaston. 

 "Very rare, — " VUcus 1 — 1- inches broad, scurfy especially in the centre ; 

 convex, at length flat, but the edge much curled in. (rills decurrcnt. 

 Stem '2 inches high, as thick as a swan's quill, thickest downwards." 

 With. I. c. 



290. A. rrriigi?i6si(s, Curt, (verdigris Agaric) ; pileus fleshy 

 yellow smeared with a blue more or less persistent gluten 

 which gives it a greenish tint, gills plane adnate purple-brown, 

 stem hollow squamose. Curt, Loml. t. 309. Sow. t. 2GI. 

 With. V. 4. p. 232. Purl. v. 2 c^ O. ;/. 94G. Fr. S,/st. Mt/c. v. 1 . 



p. 280. Grcv. Ft. Ed. p. 391 — A. viridulus, Scluvff! t. 1.— - 

 A. cyancusy Boll, t. 143. With. v. 4. p. l\)-2.—A. politus, Bolt. 

 t. 30. 



Near hay-stacks, meadows, woods, amongst grass, sticks, .&c. Aug. 

 — Nov. Kxtrcincly connnon. — (iregarious. Pileus 1 — 4 inches broad, 

 convex, thin, expanded, (lc->hy, dnll-yellow but covered with blue gluten, 

 above this, but not always, clothed with pure white scales, (tills 

 purple-brown, or sonjetimes umber, plane or very slightly vcntricose, 

 adnate with a small tooth ; margin wjiite, pulverulent. Sjmndts 

 eUiptic. Stem 2—3 inches high, .'i -G lines iliiik, penetrating into the 

 soil l)y strong branciicd while fibres, straight or flexnous, sometimes 

 bulbous, scaly ; scfdcs rellexcd, at length more or k'>s smooth, with 

 various tints of blue, green or yellow, at first stuffed then hollow, 



