104 FUNGI. [Agaricus. 



281. A, homhycinuSf SclioefF. (silhj ivrappered Agaric) ; pileus 

 silky white, gills flesh-coloured, stem solid incurved attenuated, 

 volva dark loose. Schceff. t. 98. Fr. Syst. 31yc. v. I. p. 277. 

 — Fungus magnus, Sfc.^ 3Iich. Nov. Gen. p. 188. t. 76. f. 1. — 

 Amanita ijicarnata, Pers. Syn. p. 248. 



Inside of trees, stumps, &c., on touchwood. Aug. — Sept. Rare. 

 Near Wimbleton, on ehn (lime, Eng. Fung.) Sow. Herb. Thornhaugh, 

 Morehay Lawn, Norths, (on ash). Rev. M. J. Berhelei/ — Pileus 

 2 inches or more broad, at first entirely enclosed in a slimy dark volva, 

 at length protruded, campanulate, dirty-white, silky with yellowish- 

 white narrow silky scales, and marked frequently with a few dark 

 blotches the remains of the volva ; Jiesh whitish, firm, elastic, margin 

 involute. Gills numerous, close, ventricose, quite free, not reaching 

 to the margin, at first white, then rose-coloured with a tinge of yellow, 

 at length deliquescent, tinged with umber. Sporules elliptic. Ste7n 

 2| inches high, h an inch thick in the centre, firm, solid, thickest 

 downwards, the tough volva remaining like a cup at the base. — The 

 above description is taken from a young specimen. When at full 

 maturity the white of the pileus is purer and the pileus itself more 

 expanded. It is considered eatable. 



282. A. volvdceus, Bull, (stove Agaric) ; pileus streaked with 

 adpressed hairs, gills reddish-flesh-colour, stem solid smooth 

 subequal, volva loose. Bull. t. 262. Sow. t. 1. With. v. 4. 

 p, 207. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 1. p. 278. Boques, Hist, des Champ, 

 p. 141. Nov. Act. Phys. S^c, v. 16. p. 1. t. 6. 7 — Amanita 

 virgata, Pers. Syn. p. 249. — A. latus, var. 2. With. v. 4. 

 77.211. 



In stoves, on the bark. July — Aug. — ''Pileus 3 inches broad, obtuse, 

 pallid-cinereous with cinereous and black streaks. Gills obtuse behind, 

 almost remote. Steyn 3 — 5 inches high, ^ an inch thick, white." Fr. 

 I. c. Accounted poisonous. In the pface quoted above, Nees ab 

 Esenbeck gives a complete account and figures of the development of 

 this Agaric. He conceives that Sclerotium mycetospora^ Fr. & JS'ees, 

 is an imperfectly developed state of it, indurated in consequence of 

 growing at a time when the stove abounds with heat and moisture, but 

 is deficient in light. In summer, from the samebyssoid fibres (Mycelium. 

 Tratt.) A. volvaceus is perfectly developed, according to Fries' observa- 

 tion, " nisus idemreproductionis in potestate lucis producit hymenium." 

 The nearest affinity of this and the neighbouring species is, I think, 

 evidently on the one hand with A. latus and its allies, and on the other 

 hand, with the Coprini. The gills are of the same form as in A. latus, 

 but the processes are those of Coprini. Fries, however, if I under- 

 stand his expression, " thecis prominulis denticulatae," seems to 

 regard them in a different light. Withering perceived the affinity, 

 and accordingly in one place made the present species a variety of 

 A, latus, though in another he has it separate under the name of A. 

 volvaceus. 



283. A. Loveidmis, Berk. {p)arasitic wrappered Agaric); 

 parasitic, middle-sized very delicate, pileus white silky, gills 

 pale-rose, stem attenuated upwards, wrapper white lobed 

 loose. 



