Agaricus.] rUNcr. 81 



black fibrilloe, subsquamulose. Gills broad, ventricose, adnatc. Stem 

 3 inches higli, 2:\ lines broad, hollow, twisted, fibrillose, blue, downy at 

 the base. The inargin of the gills in my spccinjens has not the slightest 

 appearance of black teeth. They agree very well with Bulliard's figure, 

 except that the gills are really adnate in Bulliard's plant ; however, 

 according to Fries, they are free only in conse({uence of the expansion 

 and depression of the pileus, which causes them to start away from the 

 stem. Having never found a species of this tribe with serrated gills, I 

 am unable to form any opinion as to the importance which ought to be 

 attached to this character, and Fries does not say whether the gills of 

 his var. /3. are serrated or no, though the presumption is that they are 

 so. In this uncertainty, I venture to keep A. cuhnnharius distinct for 

 the present, as less likely to lead to confusion and error than a virtual 

 expression of an o[)inion as to the nonimportance of the character, 

 which might throw a doubt upon what alter all may be a very valid 

 distinction. 



Subg-enus 13. Nolanea ; (from iiola, a little hell.) Brittle, 

 Stem Jistidose, rarely stuffed ivith down, distinct from the pileus. 

 Pileus submemhranaccoiis, campanidate, then expanded, not fibril- 

 lose or scaly, luhen moist striate suhpeUucid, ichen dry turning 

 j)ale, often xcith a satiny lustre, never umhilicate. Gills free or 

 slightly adnexed, broad, ventricose, subascending. 



216. A.pdscuiis,VQY?,. {pasture Agaric) ; pileus canipanulate 

 expanded dark-sooty when dry pallid subsericeous, gills nearly 

 free dirty flesh-colour, stem slender fistulose nearly straight. 

 Pers. Syn. p. 427. Fr. Syst. 3Iyc. v. 1. p. 205. — A. sericeus, 

 Bull, t. 413./. 2, 5'26.—A.fuligineus, Pers. Sy?i. p. 427. 



Pastures. Sejit. — Oct. Not uncommon. Inverary. Klutzsch,inIIouh. 

 Herb. Aimer, Dors. Margate. Rev. M. J. Bcrlithy. — Pikus \'\\\c\\ 

 or more broad, subcarnose, brown, when dry changing to ochraceous- 

 brown, umbonate, smooth, satiny, not fibrillose, the margin striate when 

 moist. Stem 1 inch high, stutled, minutely fistulose, when old (|uitc 

 hollow, and fibrillose within and without, often compressed, j)alcr than 

 the i)ileus. Sometimes the pileus is de[)ressed and the gills appear 

 decurrent. 0^/o///-like that of fresh meal. The above is a description 

 of one state of tiie species, but it will not apply universally. The stem 

 is sometimes much longer, ami the gills vary considerably in shape. It 

 occurs of various colours ami the form of the pileus is by no means 

 constant. 1 have found specimens resembling very much A. Innutji/iosiis, 

 which though very dillcrent from the conunon state I imagine to be 

 only a variety. The pileus is conico-campauulate, umbonate, umber- 

 grey, decidedly silky ; the gills adnate with a di^tinct tooth or sub- 

 adnexed, dull pink with a shade of umber; extreme margin white, 

 scarcely serrulate. Stem pale, darker below, fibrillose. It has the same 

 odour. — Another form of the species, if not distinct, has very broad 

 secedenti-adnate gills, and a subfibrillose pileus. I can, however, find 

 no other mark of ilistinction ; this also has the mealy odour. 



Subgenus 16. I^'ccii.ia ; {Worn laxxiXoui, to hollow out.) Stem 

 irhen young stuffed with light doivn, then fistulose, shndcr, apt a I, 

 slightly diU'ustd into the jjHius ; paler than the jnleus and not 



