Agaricus.] fungi. 105 



Parasitic on half-decayed, and, in general, distorted specimens of 

 A. nebularis. Plantations. Abuitdant at Wothorpe near Stamford, 

 Norths., Oct. 10, 1833. Rev. M. J. JBerJiekf/.— Gregarious, subcaes- 

 pitose. At first it appears like a small smooth white round Bovistciy 

 from the size of a pea to lan inch in diameter ; it then becomes oblong 

 and the top of the pileus'which is at that stage flattish, bursts through, 

 forming a round aperture in the volva, which as the plant is fully 

 developed, is broken into three or four regular laciniae, with a some- 

 what wrinkled surface, and the pileus, from subtruncato-globose, 

 becomes convex or slightly expanded, 2\ inches broad, moderately 

 fleshy and beautifully silky; white with a very slight shade of pink or 

 cinereous ; margin involute. GUIs broad in front, quite free, leaving a 

 space round the stem, not reaching to the margin, subdeliquescent, 

 gradually assuming a pale pink tinge, under a good lens clothed with 

 fine minute transparent processes like the Coprini. SporuJefi minute, 

 elliptic, rose-coloured. Stem 2 inches high, t2 — 3 lines thick, white, 

 closely fibrillose with a little matted tomentum, very juicy, solid, 

 bulbous. Volva pure white, with a little downy prominence within 

 round the base of the stem. Taste exactly like that of A. cainpcstiis. 

 — A most elegant and curious species, which, as it appears not to have 

 been hithertonoticed, I wish to bear the name of the Reverend R. T. 

 Lowe, not merely on account of our intimate friendship, but of his great 

 and diversified talents. 



284. A. mudius, Sclium. (iiiter mediate inrappered Agaric); 

 pileiis smooth slightly viscid white, gills rose-coloured, stem 

 smooth solid, volva sheathing. Schum. SceU. 2. p. 227, Fl. 

 Dan. t. 1676./. 2. Fr. Syst. 3Iyc. v. \. p. 278. 



In pastures after stormy weather. Aug. — Oct. Abundant in 1834, about 

 King's Clirte, Norths. Rev. M. J. Berkeley. — Varying greatly in size 

 and form, from \ an inch to 2 inches or;[more broacl, subcarnose or 

 submembranaceous, plane, subhemisphasrical or subcampanulate, subum- 

 bonate, silky, slightly viscid, white with a brownish or yellowish tinge 

 in the centre. Gills rather thick, broad, quite free, projecting in the 

 young state beyond the edge of the pilcus, often rugged, when old rose- 

 coloured, covered with minute spiculiE as in the last. Sporules n)inute, 

 rose-coloured, sul)LlHptic. Stem nearly equal or slightly thickened 

 below, 1 — '1 inches hi^h, 2 lines or more thick, nearly smooth, silky 

 under a lens, solid, juicy, furnished at the base with a volva divided into 

 3 or more lobes, vaginatc and close or slightly sjjrcading, nearly smooth 

 and white, or furnished with small flat brownish scales, sometimes 

 entirely dark brown. 



Subgenus .30. Psaliota ; (from -vf/aX/^!-, a ring, or collar.) 

 Veil forming a ring., suhpersistent, really partial. Stem firm, 

 suberjital, distinct from the pileiis. Pileus more or less fleshy, 

 convex then catnpanulato-expanded, viscid or clothed with sfpiamules 

 or jihrilhc. (iilh free or fixed, hroad, becoming brown — In sojne 

 species tficrc are the rudiments of a universfd veil. 



285. A. Gedrgii, With. (.%. Georges Agaric, U'hitr-Caps) ; 

 jiileus v(>ry fleshy convex at length nearly plane staiu<Ml with 

 yellow when bruised, gills wiiilish when the veil bursts, at 



