94 rUNGl. [Agaricus, 



quite obsolete as in some Tricliolomata). Stem Jihroso-squamose, 

 Pileusjieshy, convex then plane, smooth, even, viscid when moist. 

 Gills emarginate or roimded, close, ivatery, cinnamon. Sporules 

 ferrugineo- argillaceous, rather pale, — Growing on the ground, 

 fcetid, poisonous. 



251. A. faslibilis, Pers. (^strong-scented Agaric); strong- 

 scented, pileus subrepand opaque, stem white squamulose, 

 sporules subargillaceous. Pers. Sijn. p. 326. Fr. Syst. Myc. 

 V. \.p. 249. Pers. Myc. Eur. v. \. p. 172. — A. gilvus, Schceff. 

 t. 221.— A. crustuliniformis, Bidl. t. 308, 546. Sihth. Fl. Ox. 

 p, 348. With. V. p. 211. — A. laterinus, suhtestaceus, clavus, 

 Putsch,/. 195, 198, \99.—A. graueoleiis, Sow. t. 281. 



Woods, pastures, &c. July — Oct. Every where. — Densely gregarious 

 or solitary. Pileus 1 — 3 inches broad, viscid ; moist or dry, very fleshy, 

 though sometimes only subcarnose, subhemisphpcrical, sometimes rugoso- 

 plicate, in large specimens ochraceous with a rufous tinge, the margin 

 pale, involute and downy. Gills broad, the edges often lachrymose, 

 ventricose, adnexed, emarginate or adnate rather irregular, subargil- 

 laceous or cinnamon. Sporules elliptic. Stem 2—41 inches high, 

 2 lines — 1 inch thick, subbulbous or nearly equal, somewhat rooting, 

 clothed with scattered fibrillose scales, especially towards the apex, 

 often twisted, at length hollow. Odour disagreeable, somewhat resem- 

 bling that of the flowers o( Prunus Lauro-cerasus, or Sida pulchella. — 

 A most abundant and variable species, in general easily recognised by 

 its peculiar odour, but specimens occur sometimes quite scentless. 

 A. gilvus, Schoeff". is represented as having a veil, and it is so described 

 by Fries ; but 1 have never been able to detect any in the earliest stage 

 of growth, nor is there the slightest trace of any in Bulliard's excellent 

 figures. His account of its mode of growth is admirable : — " Nothing," 

 he says, " can be more curious than the manner in which this Agaric is 

 disseminated on the ground ; sometimes round the foot of a tree, but 

 at the distance of 8 or 10 feet ; sometimes in the middle of a pasture ; 

 sometimes in the centre of a forest you fall in with prodigious colonies 

 forming very regular rings of greater or less size, or, as it were, 

 undulating paths two or three hundred feet in length and one in 

 breadth, in which they grow five or six deep and so close together 

 that though thousands are visible, you cannot see a single stem." — 

 A. crustuliniformis, Purt. seems to belong to A. mutabilis. 



Subgenus 23. Flammula ; (from Jlammula, a little flame, in 

 allusion to the more or less yellow colour of the species.) Veil 

 marginal^ fibrillose, very fugacious, not glutinous. Stem stuffed 

 when young, at length generally hollow, not bulbous, firm, fibrillose. 

 Pileus fleshy, convexo-expctnded, even, generally smooth, dry or 

 viscid. Flesh not thick but firm. Gills not emarginate. — Gre- 

 gariouSyfirm, subccespitose, rather bitter, yellowish fungi. 



252. A. fldvidus, Schoeff. (dirty-yellow Agaric) ; caespitose, 

 pileus even dirty-yellow, gills adnate yellow then ferruginous, 

 stem fibrillose. Scha>ff. t, 35. With, v, 4.;;. 193. Pers, Syn, 



