96 FUNGI. [Agariacs. 



broad, pallid. Stem 2 inches or more high, 3 lines thick, equal, striate, 

 dirty-white. Odour nauseous." Fr. I. c. 



257. A. pyriodorus, Pers. (^pear-scented Agaric); pileus 

 flesliy umbonate fibrillose subsquamose pallid, gills adnexed, 

 stem' fibrous. Pers, Syn. p, 300. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. \. p. 255. 



A. furfuraceiis, Bid'l. t. 532. f. 1. — A. pallidas, Sow. t. 365 



(yar.) 



Woods and gardens. Sept. — Oct. Scotland, Klotzsch, in Hook. 

 Herb. Canterbury. Winkbourn, Notts. Rev, M. J. Berkeley. — 

 Pileus H — 3 inches broad, broadly and strongly umbonate, the margin 

 at lengtha little turned up, fibrilloso-squamulose ; fleshy, pallid-umber. 

 Gills adnexed, ventricose, pale. Stem 2—3 inches high, 4 lines thick 

 (solid in my specimens and in Bulliard's figure), fibrillose, white, when 

 bruised somewhat of the same hue as the pileus. Veil very fugacious. 

 Odour penetrating, like that of rotten pears or Hyacinthus racemosus. 



258. A. scaler, Miill. (ragged-stemmed Agaric) ; pileus carnose 

 obtuse squamose pallid subfuliginous, gills nearly free, stem 

 solid fibrillose. FL Dan. t. S-32.f. 3. Sow. t. 207. Pers. Sy7i, 

 p. 301. Part. V. 3. n. 1447. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 1. p. 255. 



Grev. FL Ed. p. 388. 



Shady woods on the ground. Rare. Oversley and Ragley. Purton. 

 Foxhail near Edinburgh. Wauch ^' Greville. Kirriemuir. Klotzschy 

 in Hook. Herb. — " Plltus h — 1 inch broad, campanulate, subumbonate, 

 dingy greyish-brown, scaly." Gills pale dingy-brown, rather numerous, 

 nearly free. Stem 1 — U inch high, 2—3 lines thick, solid, whitish, 

 fibrillose, furnished with' a bark-hke external coat. Sometimes sub- 

 gregarious." Grev. I. c. 



259. A. relicinus, Fr. (fleshy downy Agaric) ; pileus flesliy 

 conic expanded squarroso-tomentose dingy as well as the solid 

 fibrillose stem, gills adnate yellowish. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 1. 

 p. 256. 



In marshy Fir-woods amongst Sphagna. July— Sept. Kinnordy. 

 Klotzsch, in Hook. Herb.—'' Gregarious. Pileus at first conic-obtuse, 

 4 lines high, then expanded, 1 inch or more broad. Gills close, 

 alternate, at length dingy-olive. Stem 2 inches high, 2 lines thick." 

 Fr. I.e. 



260. A. plumosus, Bolt, (feathery Agaric) ; pileus subcarnose 

 liemisphoerical mouse-coloured and squarrose with scales as well 

 as the solid long slender stem, gills nearly free. Bolt. t. 33. 

 With. V. 4. p. 176. Pers. Syn. p. 347. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 1. 



p. 256. 



Woods. Ovenden near Halifax, Bolton. A\\^.— Pileus H inch 

 broad, thickly covered with little downy tufts. Stem 4 inches high, 

 1 line or more thick. 



261. A. lamiginosns^ Bull, (downy Agaric); pileus subcarnose 

 hemispbaerical clothed ^yith downy scales brownisb-fawn colour, 

 gills free pallid as well as the solid fibrillose stem. Bidl. t. 370. 

 With. V. 4. p. 212. Purf. v. 3. n. 1456. Fr. Syst. 3Iyc. v. 1. 



