82 rUNGI. [Agariciis, 



thiged with blue. Pileus t/dn, memhranaceous, convex then plane^ 

 umbilicate, striate, smooth or minutely sqamulose. Gills adnate 

 or subdecurre7it, subacute behind, broad, subdistant. 



217. A' Sowerbei, Berk, (green mouse-scented Agaric) ; pileus 

 smooth striate shaded with green and yellowish-brown, gills 

 adnate paler than the pileus, stem green. — A. murinus, Sotc. 

 t. 162. 



Pastures. Sept. East Morden, Dors. JRev. 31. J. Berheleij 



Pileus 1 inch broad, convex or subcampanulate, at length umbilicate, 

 submembranaceous, shining, very brittle. Gills broad, at length rose- 

 coloured, as the pileus expands starting away from the stem ; not at all 

 decurrent. Sporulcs oval, rose-coloured. Stem 1 inch high, 1 line 

 thick, very brittle, of a beautiful yellow-green, above darker, inclining 

 to verdigris ; stuifed, at length hollow ; sometimes compressed, minutely 

 fibrillose, downy at the base. The whole plant, when cut, turns to a 

 beautiful verdigris-green. Odour exactly like that of mice. 



This species in the Si/st. Myc. is considered as doubtful ; in the 

 Iiid. Alpli. it is referred to A. asperellus, but there is so much discre- 

 pancy in the characters, that I think it expedient for the present to 

 keep it distinct. No species can be more decidedly marked, and 

 Sowerby*s figure is very accurate. 



218. A. rufo-cdrneus, Berk, (rufous rose-gil/ed Agaric) ; pileus 

 hemisphserical red-brown, gills adnate ventricose, stem elongated 

 rufescent. 



On a heath, East Morden, Dors. Sept. Rev. M. J. Berlieley, 

 —Pileus 1 inch broad, umbilicate, membranaceous, indistinctly fibrilloso- 

 squamulose, margin striate, dark red-brown. Gills adnate, ventricose, 

 waved, rose-coloured, slightly connected and traversed by veins. 

 Sporules elliptic, rose-coloured. Stem 2^ inches high, 1 line thick, 

 curved at the base where it is slightly thickened, pale rufescent, nearly 

 white above, fistulose, smooth, under a lens minutely fibrillose. Taste 

 rather bitter. — After an attentive examination I can find no plant 

 according with this, which appears a well-marked species. 



Series III. Cortinaria. (/ro??z cortina, a t-ez7.) Sporules^ 

 reddish-ochre. Veil arachnoid. 



Subgenus 17. Telaimonia; (from rO^aixm, lint.) Veil coimsting 

 of arachnoid fibres woven into a subpersistent ring. Stem solid, at 

 length softer, luithin firm, fibrillose. Pileus more or less fieshy, 

 the margin thin, campanulate or convex then expanded, dry, 

 squamulose or fibrillose. Gills adnate or emarginate, broad, distant, 

 changing colour. — Large firm fungi, groioing on the ground. 



219. A. torvus, Fr. (hosed Agaric) ; pileus obtuse fibrillose 



* The sporules in this series are distinguishable from those of the following, 

 when accurately examined, by a redder tinge. As far as I have been able to 

 pay attention to the point, thecolour appears to vary very little, whereas in the 

 following series, the sporules in different species are sesn to assume many 

 different shades. No difficulty, howevei', will be found in referring each 

 Agaric to its proper series, when once a single individual of the present shall 

 1)6 accurately determined. 



