92 FUNGI. [Agaricus. 



Sow. t 284. Purt. v. 2 c^ 3. n, 949. Grev, Scot, Crypt. 



Fl. t. 2. FL Ed. p. 387 A. srpimnosus, Bull. t. 266. Purt. 



v. 2 4* 3. n. 924. — A. Jioccosus, pilosus. With. 



On trees. Aug. — Dec. Not uncommon. Densely tufted. — Pileus 

 2—5 inches broad, firm, convex, expanded, obtusely umbonate, yellow 

 clothed with rich brown scales ; fesh yellow near the surface. Gills 

 at first yellowish, then pale olive changing to ferruginous, broad 

 rounded behind and adnate or subdecurrent. Stem 3 — 7 inches high, 

 1 — 1 inch thick, at first pale then croceo-ferruginous, solid, pithy in the 

 centre, equal or attenuated at the base from the tufted mode of growth, 

 fibrillose and squarrose with reflexed scales ; above the ring very pale 

 yellow and smooth. Iting near the apex radiato-floccose, rich brown 

 inclining to orange. Odour disagreeable. — This species differs so much 

 in colour and degree of scaliness, that it is difficult sometimes to 

 recognise it. The gills too vary as in A. aureus. 1 have found it on 

 apple-trees, quite pale, destitute of an umbo, clothed with only a few 

 scattered scales, the gills emarginate ; and the stem not at all attenuated 

 at the base. Another state occurs in which the pileus is between grey 

 and ochraceous or yellow, minutely scaly and subviscose, the gills 

 quite yellow at first, and the stem with a few minute, reflexed scales. The 

 quotation by the Editor of the last edition of Withering, of ^. pilosuSy 

 Huds., is only equalled by his considering A. hulbosus. Sow. the same 

 as A. phalloides. 



247. A. jidmmans^ Batscli, {rhidyarh- Agaric) ; csespitose, 

 pileus flesliy dry dull-yellow, scales scattered pilose, gills at first 

 yellow, stem equal squarrose. Batschy El.f. 30. Fr. Syst. Myc. 

 V. l.p. 244. — A.rheoidcs, With. v. 4. p. 197. — A. rhabarbarinust 

 Pers. Syn. p. 271. 



On stumps of hawthorn, alder, pine, &c. Sept. — Oct. Edgebaston. 

 Curdworth, Warw. Withering. lnverary,Dugaldstone,&c. Klotzsch, 

 in Hook. Herb.—'' Taste bitter. Smaller than the last, more elegant. 

 Pileus U— 3 inches broad, margin at first inflexed then repand ; scales 

 concentric, yellow, scarcely innate. Gills rather thin, close, adnate, 

 without a tooth, at length ferruginous. Stem 3 inches high, 2—3 lines 

 thick, stuffed, ac length hollow, yellow ; ring entire, close to the gills." 

 Fr. I. c— A most elegant species, retaining its characters admirably 

 when dried.— ^. luteus. Bolt, is considered by Fries the same as his 

 A. muricatus ; but it seems to me to be either the yellow state of 

 A. cepoestipes or some nearly allied species, consequently it is omitted 

 here. 



248. A. midcibilis, Scliceff. {changeable stump Agaric) ; pileus 

 slightly fleshy smooth cinnamon turning pallid, gills subdecur- 

 rent close pale ferruginous, stem slender fistulose scaly. 

 Schceff. t. 9. With. V. 4. p. 252. Fr. Syst. 3Iyc. v. I. p. 245.— 

 A. ocylophilus, Bull. t. 530. /. 2. Purt. v. 2 ^ 3. «. 944— 

 A. cmmdaris, Bull. t. 543./. O. P. — A. caudici^nis, Tratt. Essb. 

 Schw. t. E. Fung. Aust. f. 14 — b. stem fibrillose. — A. mar- 

 ginatus, 77iutabilis, Batsch,/. 207, 208. 



On stumps, &c. May— Nov. Not common, a, Edgebaston. 

 Withering. Oversley. Purton. Loch Laggan, Inverary, Klotzsch, in 

 Hook. Herb. Laxton, Norths. Rev. M. J. Berkeley — b. Biggen. 



