Agaricus.] fungi. 99 



Pileus ^ — 1 inch broad, subcarnose, at first convex, at length expanded, 

 often iinibilicate, rich-umber, or cinnamon when moist, margin trans- 

 parent, sprinkled especially towards tiie margin with white fibrillte or 

 little branny scales, when dry white or reddish-tan. GUIs broad, sub- 

 decurrent, moderately distant, pale cinnamon. Sporuhs elliptic, pale 

 ferruginous. Stem 1 — 2 inches high, 1 — 2 lines thick nearly equal, or 

 slightly thickened at the base, flexuous, fistulose, fibrillose or furfura- 

 ceous. Taste not unpleasant. It is very doubtful whether ^. ui';/- 

 darius. With., quoted by Fries, is this species. It seems rather to be 

 A, meliiioichs. 



268. A. inquUinus^ Fr. {dark- stemmed branny Agaric) ; pileus 

 suLmeinbranaceous umbonate striate brownish, Avheii dry even 

 turning- pale, gills adnate triangular ferruginous-brown, stem 

 short tough reddish-brown. Fr, Sijst. Myc. v. I. p. 2G4. 

 Pers. Mijc. Eur. v. 3. p. 165. — ;3. srpiarridosus ; stem squarrose 

 with scaly fibrillar. A. srjuarrosas, Bull. t. 538./. 3. Fr. El. 

 l.jy. 39. 



/3, Apethorpc. Norths. Sept. Upon moss. — Not always umbonate. 

 Pdeus 3 — G lines broad. Stem 1 inch or more high, minutely 

 fistulose, daik-umber with white fibrillae and scales, — This species is 

 placed by Fries in a new Tribe, Phaotus, but for the present I leave it 

 and the other species, as they were at first arranged by him in the Syst. 

 Myc.y till \ shall have had leisure for an extended examination of the 

 sporules of this and the two neighbourings scries. 



Subgenus 26. Galera ; (from galea ^ a helmet.) Veil Jloccose* 

 very fugacious, hut present in all the species. Stem Jistulose, cqua 

 or attenuated upwards, slender, distinct from the pileus, in genera 

 pruiuose or Jibrillose, seldom naked. Pileus membranaceous, conic^ 

 soon campunulate, seldom more expanded, when moist substriatCy 

 when dry even, tuj'ni?ig pale, destitute of adnate scabs or Jibrillcc. 

 Gills adnexcd or adnate. — Slender brittle Fungi, mostly growing 

 on the ground. 



2G9. A. Cticuiuis, Pers. (cucumber-scented Agaric) ; pileus 

 rarnoso-membrunaceous brojidly cauipanulato even bay-brown 

 turning pale, gills adnexed ventricose pallid, stem brown-black. 

 Pers. Syn. p. 316. Pr, Syst. 3Iyc. v. I, p. 231. El. \. p. 34. 

 —/J. 7iigripes, Sow. t. 344. 



Woods, gardens, $:c. Oct. Costesscy near Norwicli. Soirerln/. 

 Kiirienuiir. Klolzsch, in Ilooh. JItrlt. — ''Pdeus 1 — IV inch broati, 

 even, smooth, when moist bay-brown with a purplish tinge, jjale about 

 the margin ; when dry fawn-oolourcil or tan. iidU very ventricose, 

 close, distinct, dirty-white with somewhat of a sattlon tint. Sporuhs 

 ferruginous. Stem \\ — 2 inches high, 1 — \\ line thick, attenuated 

 ilownwuiils, firm, smooth, hollow, pale at tiie apex. (>^/o//;- exactly that 

 of fresh cucumber." Pr. PL I. c. — Formerly placed by Fries iu 

 Dermocybc, but he is now of opinion that it is a true Cudera, 



270. A. laterinus, (later id us) Fr. (cinnamon-gillcd tender 

 Agaric) ; pileus submembrauaceoiH even ferruginous turnin<j 

 pale, gills nearly free cinnamon, stem long smooth diity-wiiite. 



