Affaricus.] ruNGi. 9l 



(scarcely rounded in my specimens) nearly horizontal, minutely ser- 

 rulate. Sporidis oval, incarnato-feiruginous. Stem 4 inches high, 

 1 inch thick, deeply rooting, firm, solid, white within; rincf thick, 

 suberect, beneath tlie slimy coat silky and furfuraceous ; above the ring 

 pruinose. Odour resembling that of prnssic acid. Taste at first 

 pleasant, but soon disagreeable. — A very distinct and remarkable spe- 

 cies, perbaps more properly belonging to the subgenus Ni/xaciian. 

 The length ot" the stem in my specimens is much greater than in those 

 figured by BuUiard, and the gills are not rounded. The Northampton- 

 shire specimens resemble his figiu-e more than those fi-om Dorsetshire; 

 the stem being bulbous and the scales more squarrose. This latter 

 point depends in great measure upon the quantity of the slimy coating 

 left upon the stem, when the pileus separates from the ring ; the 

 squarrose scales being seated beneath it. 



244. A. aurivcllus, Balscli, {golden-fleece Agaric) ; compact, 

 pileus dull-yelloNv clothed with scattered adpressed scales, gills 

 rounded, stem solid fibrillose rootinji^. Batsch, Cont, \.f. 115. 

 Fr. S^st. 3Ij/c. v. 1. ;;. 242. Klotzsch, Fung. Germ, exs.yi. 19. 



— A. fllamentosns, Sclicc^ff'. t. 209 A. villosus, Bolt. t. 42. — 



A. pilosus, var. 2. With, v. 4. p. 161. — A. sguarrosus, var. 



Pers. Syii. p. 2G8 ,'3. heteroclitus, excentric. — A. auraidio-fer- 



rugijicKS, With. v. 4. p. 265. Fr. hid. Alph. p. 8. 



Trunks of trees, especially birch and willow. Oct. — Nov. Near 

 Halifax. Bolton. AVoolhope, Herefordshire. Mr. Stachhonse. — 

 " Generally solitary. Pileus when young hemispheerical, 2 — 3 inches 

 broad, at length expanded, 4 inches or more; pallid, yellowish or 

 tawny. Gills fixed, very broad, plane, pallid-olive, at length ferruginous. 

 Stem hard, abrupt, various in length, incurved, subbulbous, whiti.^h, 

 within rhubarb-coloured at the base, veiled at the very apex." Fr. I. c. 

 Mr. Stackhouse considers Bolton's i)lant a variety of ^1. pilosus, Schcrff. 

 It is introduced here as A. aurircUus, on the authority of M. Fries, who, 

 however, pronounces the figure bad. 



245. A. adiposusy Batscli, (viscid tam^y Agaric) ; crcspitosp, 

 pileus flesliy viscid dull-yellow clothed with concentric fer- 

 ruginous scales, gills at first yellow, stem squarrose thickened 

 at the base. Fi\ Syst. ISIyc. v. 1. ;;. 242 — A. squarrosusj 

 adiposus S^- imiiricatus, Jhdsch,/. 31, 113, 114. 



Old stumjjs. Bigucn, Norths. Oct. 2. On ash. A single young 

 specimen. Jirr. M. ./. Bt-rkrhy. — Pileus convex, fiim, fleshy, the 

 margin thin, of a beautiful tawny, very viscid, snu)oth ami shiuiug with 

 a few siq)erficial darker scales ; remains of the woven ring attathcd to 

 the margin, (illls l)road, rounded behind, and adnnte with a tooth, 

 ferruginous; edge white. Stem c(|Uid, scarcely incrassated at the base, 

 solid, firm, brown below, yellowish above with tawny adpressed scales, 

 near the apex whiter and niore silky. 



246. A. ftqunrrAftua, ISIiill. (srjifarrosc Agaric); ctt^spito^o, 

 j)ibMi< fleshy dry bright fcrniginou^^-saflVon, scales clo<?e revolufi*, 

 gills paHid-(dive then fcrnigiiu^us, stem squarrose attenuated 

 below. 77. Ban. t. 491. J\rs. Syn. p. 26H. Fr. Syst. Myc. 

 V. 1. ;;. 213.-/1. floccosus, Schcrff. ^ 01. Curt. Bond. t. 264. 



