84 rUNGl. [Agaricus. 



Fir and Beech-woods. Sept.— Nov. Not uncommon. Swanston 

 wood near Edinburgh, Dr. GreviUe. Canterbury. King's ClifFe, 

 Norths, licv. M. J. Berlicley. — Filens \ — 3 inches broad, at first 

 conic-obtuse, then more or less acutely umbonate, with, frequently, a 

 depression round the umbo, cinnamon changing to a pale tawny, marked 

 in decay with brown streaky blotches, shining, somewhat cracked, sub- 

 fibrillose, sometimes with a few very minute silky scales. Gills very 

 distant, thick, adnate, rounded behind, cinnamon or dark ferruginous. 

 Stem 3 inches high, 2 — 3 lines thick, of the same colour as the pileus, 

 nearly equal, at first marked w ith the remains of the woven spongy 

 ring, fibrillose, wavy, at length hollow. 



223. A. limonhis, Fr. (orange-tawny Agaric) ; pileus obtuse 

 orange- tawny becoming pale, gills yellow^ soon tawny-cinnamon, 

 stem equal, veil floccose. Fr. Syst. JShjc. v. 1.^.213 — A. 

 kermesinus^ Holmsh. v. 2. t 40. 



Alpine Pine-woods. Oct. Highland woods. Klotzsch, in Hooh. 

 Jlerh. — " Pileus 2—4 inches broad, when dry ochry-yellow, subsquar- 

 rose. Gills sometimes adnate, sometimes emarginate ; veil rarely 

 forming a perfect ring. Ste77i 2—4 inches high, h an inch thick, firm, 

 fibrillose, dull yellow sometimes saffron-red." Fr. I. c. 



224. A. vdlidiiSy Berk, (stout tawny Agaric) ; pileus ricli 

 tawny-ferruginous obtuse clothed with very minute refiexed 

 scales, gills pale tawny fixed, stem rooting stout bulbous 

 fibrillose. 



Amongst dead leaves in woods. Sept. Yarwell, Norths. Rev. 

 M. J. Berliele;/. — Pileus 4 inches broad, fleshy, the margin thin, deep 

 tawny inclining to ferruginous ; at first convex, flatly hemispha,'rical or 

 subcampanulate, very obtuse, at length expanded plano-convex clothed 

 with very minute refiexed scales ; J-lesh whitish, partaking very slightly 

 of the colour of the pileus; margin at first subinvolute. Gills f of an 

 inch broad, brittle, undulate, nearly horizontal, adnate, soon starting 

 from the stem and connected with it by a few fibres, very minutely 

 emarginate, pale tawny clouded with the sporules. Stein 4 inches 

 high, nearly 1 thick in the centre, 1^ at the base, bulbous, fibrillose 

 from the remains of the fugacious veil which forms in the very young 

 plant a slight extremely evanescent ring which is coloured by the 

 sporules ; solid, tawny like the pileus. At the base are a few strong 

 roots. — There is not the slightest tinge of purple or violet in any stage 

 of growth. 



225. A. siihlandtus, Sow. (ivoolly Agaric) ; pileus squamulose 

 reddish-olive, gills yellowish then cinnamon, stem bulbous 

 squamulose, veil brown. Soiv. t. 224. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 1. 

 p. 214. 



Hampstead Wood. Oct. ,S'o?t'e;i//.—" Smell like that of radishes. 

 Pileus 3 inches broad, at length broadly and obtusely umbonate, colour 

 variable, yellowish-brown ; scales brownish or white, sometimes silky 

 adpressed. Gills adnate or emarginate. Stem 3 inches high, yellowish- 

 pallid, sometimes violet above." Fr. I. c. 



226. A. bulhosus, Sow. (bulbous Agaric) ; pileus obtusely 

 umbonate nearly smooth reddish-brown, when dry brick-red, 

 gills cinnamon, stem long' bulbous dirty-white as well as the 



