J02 FUNGI. [Agaricus, 



lateral. Gills unequal, changing colour, Sporuks suhferruginoUSj 

 subargillaceouSf or reddish. 



275. A. panuoides, Fr. {downy hranched-gilled Agaric); 

 pileus fleshy sessile doAvny, gills crisped and branched yellow. 

 Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 1. p. 273. — Meridius lamellosus. Sow. t. 403. 

 — A. heteroclitus, Pers. Myc. Eur. p. 24. — A, mollis, Johnst, FL 

 Fretv. V. 2. p. 109. t. 7. 



Fir-trunks, cellars, &c. Charlton, Kent. Lady Wilson. Berwick. 

 Johnston. Spondon, Derhyshire. Rev. R. T. Lowe. Cotterstock, 

 Norths. Rev. M. J. Berkeley. — Pileus 1 — 4 inches broad, white, often 

 tinged with violet, very soft to the touch in consequence of the fine 

 matted silky pubescence with which it is clothed : either perfectly 

 sessile, or furnished with a spurious stem which is silky like the pileus 

 and most beautifully tinged with violet. Gills variously anastomosing 

 and wrinkled, yellow, with abundant oval ferruginous sporules. Fries' 

 plant appears to be more regular and obovate, and a specimen from 

 Dr. Johnston before me accords in this particular. Persoon agrees 

 with him in supposing it a state of ^. mollis, its differences being due 

 to its growing in perfect darkness, but then this is not the case with 

 A. panuoides, Fr. The same notion struck me upon gathering it, but 

 it differs not merely in the altered state of the gills, but in the beauti- 

 fully tomentose pileus often tinged with violet, and above all in the 

 minute hairs with which the gills are beset, and upon which the 

 sporules are often seated as upon the spiculae in A. prumdus. To 

 this circumstance the glandular appearance represented in Sowerby's 

 figure is owing. When cup-shaped and resupinate it is Gomphus 

 pezizoides, Pers, 



276. A. mollis, Schoeff. (soft sfemless Agaric); pileus sub- 

 sessile even flaccid pallid, gills watery-umber. Schceff. t. 213. 



/. 1. Sow. t. 98, With. V. 4. p. 267. Pers. Syn. p. 480. 

 Purt. V. 2 ^^ 3. 71. 978. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 1. p. 274. Pers. 

 Myc. Eur. v. 3. jj. 24. — A. canescens, Fatsch, El.f. 38. 



On timber, stumps, posts, &c. July — Oct. Common — Solitary or 



' imbricated, Pileus 1 — 2 inches or more broad, at first horizontal, 

 subgelatinous, the base tomentose or substrigose, margin transparent, 

 minutely tomentose ; then ascending, subfulvous, pallid when dry, the 

 margin waved, sometimes minutely squamulose, often stained with the 

 elliptic ferruginous sporules. Gills rounded behind, thin, watery- 

 umber, at first saturated with moisture, then dry and crisp. 



277. A. haustelldris, Fr. (heahed Agaric); pileus renlform 

 villous pallid-tan, gills rounded ferruginous, stem lateral white 

 attenuated upwards, Fr. Syst. Myc. v. I. p. 274. Pers. 3Iyc. 



Eur. V. 3. 2?. 27 A. Plurstedtensis, Fatsch, Cont. 1. p. 171. 



/. 124. — A. resupinatus, With. v. A. p. 267. 



On decayed wood, overgrown with short moss. Autumn. Packing- 

 ton, Warw. Withering. — " Pileus ^ an inch or more across, slightly 

 fleshy. Stem 2 — 4 lines long, villous, when young ascending." Fr. I. c. 



278. A. Fuhif Berk, (bramble Agaric) ; pileus fleshy clothed 

 with very minute crystalline meal, gills adnato-decurreiit 



