88 FUNGI. [Affaricus. 



Beech and Fk-v/oods.—" Pik^is about 1 inch broad, convex. Gills 

 sometimes adnata, sometimes emarginate. Ste?n stuffed, then hollow." 

 Fr. I. c. Dry specimens retain their colour many years. Those in 

 Sowerby's collection are still of a dark blood red. 



235. A. cinnamomeus^ Linn, (cinnamon Agaric); pileus 

 slightly fleshy obtusely umbonate silky cinnamon, gills close 

 fixed, stem slender equal yellowish. Linn. FL Suec, n. 1205. 

 Bolt. t. 150. With. V. 4. ;?. 231. Soio. t. 205 (marked 206.) 

 Pers. Syn. p. 297. Purt. v. 3. ^^. 1461. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 1. 



p. 229. Grev. Ft. Ed. p. 386 A, fusco-Jlavus, With. v. 4. p. 



225. 



Woods. Autumn. Frequent in Scotland, more rare in the South 

 of England.— " Pz7e?/s 1—21 inches broad, convex or even obtusely 

 conical when young, becoming nearly plane, obtusely umbonate, deep 

 reddish-cinnamon, often cracking at the margin which is thin and 

 sometimes fibrillose, smooth, somewhat fleshy. Flesh yellowish. Gills 

 numerous, adnate, yellow-cinnamon, broad, margin often notched. 

 Ste77i 2—3 inches high, 2—4 lines thick, equal, fibrillose, yellow, solid, 

 hollow in old (?) large plants." Grev. I. c. 



236. A. raphanoides, Pers. {radish- scented Agaric) ; suboli- 

 vaceous, pileus slightly fleshy obtusely umbonate silky, gills 

 fixed not close, stem stuff^ed thickened downwards. Pers. Syn. 

 p. 324. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. I. p. 230. — Fungus odore, S^c, 

 Mich. p. 179.^. 75./. 2. 



Beech and Fir-woods. July— Oct. Highland woods. Klotzsch^ 

 in Hook. Herb.—'' Allied to the last. Pileus 2 inches broad, when 

 moist brownish-olive, when dry yellowish-olive, convex at first, then 

 expanded. Gills broad, darker, adnate or emarginate. Stem 3 inches 

 high, 4 lines thick, subascending, fibrillose, villous at the base." Fr. I. c. 



237. A. iliopodius, Bull, (sharp-bossed Agaric); cinnamon 

 turning pale, subcarnose, at length umbonate, gills broad adnate, 



stem equal slender A. iliopodius, Bull. t. 586 {in part.) Fr, 



Syst. Myc. V. \.p.2^\. 



Woods. July— Nov. Scotland. Klotzsch, in Hook. Herb. Can- 

 terbury. Rev. M. J. Berkeley.— Pileus f of an inch broad, at first 

 conic, with the silky veil attached to the margin, then convex, rather 

 acutely umbonate, the umbo cinnamon, then brownish changing to 

 ochraceous, subcarnose, silky especially on the margin which is pellucid 

 when moist. Gills at first pale, changing to dark-cinnamon. Stem 2 

 inches or more high, scarce 1 line thick, rufescent, pruinose or sericeo- 

 squamulose, moderately tough, at length hollow. — My specimens 

 described above are smaller than the more usual state, approaching in 

 this respect A. Cucumis, now removed to the tribe Galera. Taste 

 not acrid. Gills moderately broad. According to Fries, the pileus is 

 from h — I inch broad. Stem 2 — 4 inches high. Taste approaching 

 that of radishes. 



** Stem white, 



238. A. Armeniacus, Schceff'. (apricot Agaric); pileus subcar- 

 nose, at length obtusely umbonate tawny- cinnamon turning 



