Agaricus.] FUNGI. 83 



whitisli* with a brick-red tinge, gills adnate purple, veil closely 

 sheathing the stem. I^r. Syst, Myc. ^'. 1. ^. 2 1 1. — A. arcmeosus, 

 Bull, t. 600. Q. R. S.^A. umhrinus, Vers. Syri. p. 280. 



Woods. Sep. — Oct. Glasgow. Klotzsch, in Hook. Herb. Colly- 

 weston. Norths, liev, 31. J. Berkeleij. — Filcus 3 inches or more 

 broad. Stem 3 — o inches high, h — 1 inch thick, violet, but clothed 

 below with the wiiite veil. 



Klotzsch's specimens are evidently tlie genuine form, figured by 

 Bulliard : mine are slightly different, but clearly belonging to the same 

 species. The youngest plants have no tinge of violet, but this is 

 probably owing to their being found in very dry weather. Pihns (in 

 the variety) 1^ inch broad, obtuse, convex, at length plane, shining with 

 a satiny lustre, at length sometimes rimulose, whitish tinged with umber, 

 fleshy in the centre, the margin thin ; portions of the veil persistent on 

 the edge. GUIs adnate, deep umber, distant, sometimes very slightly 

 emarginate in old specimens. Stem 2^- inches high, ^- an inch thick, 

 nearly equal or slightly attenuated below, paler than the pileus, hosed, 

 as it were, with the white veil ; reddish within. Odour like that of 

 A.fastibilis. 



220. A. brihincifs, Pers. (brown Agaric) ; pileus obtuse 

 umbouate subfibrillose umber turning pale, stem subbulbous 

 Striate paler than the pileus, veil woven. Pers. Syn. p. 274. 

 Fr. Syst. Myc. v. \. p. 211. — A. spomjiosus, With. v. 4. p. 186. 



Pine-groves. Autumn, Packington Park, Warw. Witherituj. — ■ 

 ''Pileus 2 — 3 inches broad, at length nearly plane, disk fleshy. GUIs 

 when bruised umber-purple. Stem 3—5 inches high, 3 — o lines thick, 

 stuffed, dilute brown." Fr. I. c. 



221. A. evernius, Fr. (piirplish satiny Agaric) ; pileus sub- 

 carnose purplish-bay then fibrillose reddish or whitish, stem 

 long equal violet. Fr. Sy^t. 3Jyc. v. 1. p. 212. — A. inipuber, 

 Sow. t. 125. 



Beech-woods. Sept. — Nov. Not uncommon. King's Cliffe, Norths. 

 lieu. M. J. Berlieley.— Tuked or subgregarious. Pileus 1 — 2 inches 

 broad, purple-brown, shining with a satiny lustre, umbonate, the umbo 

 generally subinnbilicate ; y/rsA moderately thick in the centre. GUIs 

 very broad, at length subferruginous, distant, adnate for half their breadth. 

 Stem 2i— 4 inches iiigh, ^ of an inch thick, undulated, silky, much 

 paler th'an the pileus, with a few slight traces of the veil. — iSowerby's 

 plant and that of Fries seem to be the same ; but if so, the former is 

 not, as Fries supposes, merely the young state, but arrived at its full 

 growtii. A. impuber, Batsch, is clearly A. vaccinus. 



222. A. gc?itilis, Fr. (variable tawny Agaric) ; pileus sub- 

 carnose umbonate more or less of a cbangi'able cinnamon-bue, 

 gills adiuite cinnamon, stem slender equal nearly straight. — Fr. 



Syst. Myc. V. 1. p. 212 A. hinnulcus, Sow. t. 17;J. With. v. 4. 



p.'2\\ .—A. helvoliisy Pers. Syn. p. 273. Grcv. Fl. Ed. p. 367. 

 — A. farinacLUs, Part. v. 2. p. 214. 



• 'I'lie cojoiu- ill til.' sp<'(iHo cliaraf t.rs in this und the two follo>\ing 8ub 

 gt'nciu \-i to be uuUorstuod of llic youny plaiil only. 



