Agaricus.] FUNGI. 85 



veil. Sow. t. 130. Pers. Syn, p. 295. Fr. Sijst. Myc. v. 1. 

 p. 214. Purt. V. 2 Sf 3. n. 930. 



Fir plantations and grassy places. Kare. Earlham. Soicerhy. 

 Oversley. Purton. Glasgow. Klotzsch, in Hook. Herb. — " Smell 

 like that of radishes. Pileus 2—3 inches broad, librillose under a lens, 

 brittle, margin thin. Gills rounded, subadnate, distinct, 3 — 5 lines 

 broad. Stein 3 — 4 inches high, subfibrillose, in full grown specimens 

 ferruginous at the base." Fr. I. c. According to Purton the whole 

 turns in drying to a blood-red or brick-colour, like A. sanriuineus ; and 

 this is the case in a small specimen marked by him in Dr. Hooker's 

 Herbarium. The appearance at the base is precisely that which would 

 be produced by particles of brick-dust adhering to it. Klotzsch's 

 specimens, however, have not the least tinge of red. 



Subgenus 18. Inoloma ; ( from /v, a fibre, and Xw//a, a fringe.) 

 Veil fug aciovs, marginal, consisting of free, arachnoid threads. 

 Stem solid, bulbous, fibrillose, more or less diffused into the pileus^ 

 fleshy. Pileus fleshy, convex when young, then expanded, fibrillose 

 or viscid, regular. Substance juicy. Gills emarginato-adncxed, 

 broad, changing colour. Colour of the pileus or gills violet. — 

 Large autumnal fungi, growing on the ground. 



* Pileus dry. 



227. A. violdceus, Linn, (violet Agaric) ; obscuro violet, 

 pileus villoso-squamose, qills distant connected, stem spongy 

 within, cinereous tinged -svitli violet. Liyin. Succ. p. 44S. 

 Bolt. t. 52. Pers. Syn.p. 211. With. v. 4. p. 193 {in jKtrt). 

 Purt. V. 3. 7U 928 {in part). Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 1. ;;. 217. 

 llocpies, Hist, des Champ, t. 17. f 1. — A. hercynicus, pers. Syn. 

 p. 278 — A. araneosus, Bull. t. 250, 598./. 2. A. 



Woods and Pine-groves. Aug. — Oct. Not common. On mounds 

 of compost. Purton. Near Kinnordy. Klotzsrh, in Hook. JLrb. 

 — " Large, handsome. Pilnis 3 — G inches broad, obtuse, cxpantlod. 

 Gills, when young deep violet, almost black. Stem \ inches high, 

 when young subtomentose." Fr. I. c. If attention be paid to the 

 sporules and arachnoid veil, there will be no danger of confounding 

 this with any of the varieties o^ A. pcrsonatus. It is eatable, accord- 

 ing to INI. Koques. 



228. A. spilomeus, Fr. {spotty-stemmed Agaric) ; pileus umbo- 

 nate nearly smooth brownish-pallid, gills close violet at length 

 cinnamon, stem attenuated variegated with tawny scales. Fr. 

 Syst. Myc. v. \, p. 220. — A. araneosus. Sow. t. 384. /! I. 



Mossy Fir-woods. Aug. — Sept. Karc. — " Pilnts 1 inch broad, 

 slightly fleshy, colour various, when young whitish, then ferruginous 

 tinged with fuscous, yellowish when dry. (tills violet, then lilac, at 

 length cinnamon. Stem '2 — V inches high, l2 — 3 lines thick, white, 

 tinged with violet. Fr. I.e. Fries jjimself suspects this to be only a 

 variety of the following species, and it seems to have no really 

 distinctive character ; but as I have not met with it, 1 follow Fries in 

 leaving it open to fiulher investigation. 



