A ff (trials. ] rUNGI. 93 



Cotterstock, Norths. — Very variable in size ; fasciculate. Pihus ex- 

 panded, obtuse, cinnamon, becoming pale when dry ; centre of the 

 pileus at length bright tawny, (juite smooth, the margin thin transparent ; 

 flesh white. Gi//s broad, rounded behind or subdecurrent, pale uniber. 

 Stem slender, fistulo.se, dark-brown, smooth above or minutely pul- 

 verulent and pale, below squamulose ; ?-i/i(j woven, suberect. In the 

 variety, which is eatable according to Trattinnick, the stem is attenuated 

 upwards, fibrilloae below the ring, furfuraceous above it : ring sometimes 

 deflexed and striate. A. xijlvphihis, Suw. and A. mutabilis, Grev., I 

 am inclined to think are A. furfuraccas. 



Subgenus 21. MyxACiUM ; (ivom 'x-o'i^a, slime.) Veil universal^ 

 viscid, fugacious. Stem stuff td, stout, long, ecfud, soft, clotJud 

 with the viscid veil, which brecd(s up into transverse Jluccoso- 

 yelatinous scales, Pilens smooth, viscid. Gills easily starting 

 away from the stem, subdecurrent, rather thick, at length obscurely 

 ferruginous Large solitary fungi, growing on the ground. 



249. A. collinitns. Sow. (slime-coatcd Agaric) ; pileus fleshy 

 even oruuge-tawny, gills pui-plisli then ferruginous or cinnauioii, 

 stem broken transversely into bluish gelatinous scales. Soio, 

 t 9. With. V. 4. p. 2U7. Purt. v. 3. 7i. 1428. Pers. Syn. 

 p. 281. Fr. Syst. Nye. v. 1. /;. 2-18. — A. mucosus, Bull. t. 59G. 

 f. 1. /. 549. A. B. C. — A. senescens, Batsch, f 197. — /3. inucosus, 

 stouter, gills dirty-white then ferruginous, stem firm even white 

 somewhat silky. ' Bull. t. 549. D. K. F. 



Woods. July — Nov. — Gills and ston sometimes pnri)li>h, sometimes 

 without any j)ur|)le tint, except when very young. Pib-us ;) inches 

 broad, expanded, very slimy, shining when dry, tawny-ochraceons ; 

 margin thin. Gdls broad, ventricose, rounded behind and adnate with 

 a tooth connected by veins, distant. Sj)oruh'S ferruginous. Stem 4 

 inches high, '^ of an inch thick, solid, white within except at tlie base, 

 which is rhubarb-colunreii ; without covered below with a white silky 

 slin)y coat broken transversely into scales, beneath which it is rhubarb- 

 coloured ; fibrillose above the obsolete ring. 



2.50. A. eldtvs, Datseh, (t(dl slimy Agaric) ; pileus subcarnose 

 pliealo-rugose dirty-ochre, gills br<»wuish-ferrugiu<»us, ^tem very 

 long clothed with wiiile scales. Batsch, Cunt. '2. f It^t?. l\rs. 

 Syn.j). 032. Fr. Syst. Nye. v. 1. ;;. 248. 



Woods. Aug. — Nov. I^robably notmuommon. King's CI ifl'c. Norths. 

 ]iti\ M. J. Ihrht by. — Pibus 4 inches broad, ilirty-ociire or liviil-ycllow , 

 viscid when moist, thick in the centre, margin very thin, deej»ly plicate. 

 Gills '\ of an inch broad, dirty-ferruginous, connected and traver^ed 

 by veins, tliick, rather distant, adnate, ventricose. Ston '> inchc:; high, 

 r inch thick, attenuated at both ends, (jnite smooth below for two 

 inches as if varnished, white with a slight tinge of violet, above rough 

 with adprosseil s:(|naiinda'. ISometimes the stem is of a delicate violet, 

 quite smooth up to the ring, above fibrillose. 



Sul)genus 22. IIeiikloma ; (from r,-jr„ dinrn, and /.ru/zr/, a 

 ^'ringc.) Veil marginal, floccosv, dry, thin fugacious (sometimes 



