Agaricus.] FUNGI. 79 



rose, broad in front. Spondes round, rose-coloured. Stem U inch high, 

 3 lines thick, white, bcuutifully adpresso-scriceous, composed of fibrous 

 cells, distinct from those of the pilens. Odour like that of fresh meal. 

 My specimens iigree precisely with Bnlliard's [)Iant quoted above, 

 except that the colour is not so lively. He says ex[)ressly that the 

 seminal powder is " rougeatre" which can hardly apply to any species 

 of the subgenus Ixocyee. Fries indeed tells us that Bulliard's plant 

 does not accord with his A. repandus in habit. 



211. A. Pltdcus, Batsch, (^r oof Agaric) ; pileus convex 

 smootli sooty, stem firm clothed with black fibrillte. J3atsc/i, 

 /i7. p. 79. Pcrs. Sf/71. p. S57. Dilm. in Shmns Deidsch. FL 

 L 28. Nccs, Syst.f. 201. (copied fro7n Ditm,) Fr. Syst. Myc. 

 V, 1. p. 199. — A. cervinus, Schceff. t. 10. — A. lividiis, JJidl. t, 

 382.—^. lattfs, Bolt. i. 2. Soic. t, 108. With. v. 4. p. 211. 



About rotten stumps. May — Nov. Not uncommon. — " Solitary. 

 Pdcus 2 — 3 inclies broad, carnose, here and there wrinkled, campan- 

 ulate, at length more or less plane, umber, at length dark brown, Gdls 

 free, ventricosc, moderately close, at first white, then rose-red. The 

 texture consists of Iqng cells, and between the asci which cover their 

 surface under a high power at tolei-ably regular distances are trans- 

 parent bodies, longer than tiie asci, ending in two or three curved 

 spiculai. Sporuh'S round, rose-coloured. Stem 3 — 4 inches high, 

 firm, thicker at the base, whitish or here and there of the colour of the 

 pileus, but paler, covered with fine black streaks." DUm. J. c. The 

 above is an excellent description of the common state of this variable 

 species. A variety or nearly allied species occurs, with a plane grey 

 minutely t:"(juanudose pileus; the stem white, fibrilloso-squamulosc. 

 Tile processes on the gills are longer than those represented Ijv Ditmar, 

 not ovate or urn-shaped ;* the spicules always three ; the pubescence of 

 tiic j)ileus consists of elliptic, pear-shaped, or elongated cells, filled 

 with minute granules. Sporules oval. Another distinct nearly allied 

 form occurred at Wollarton, Notts. Sept. Pileus 2 inclies broad, 

 expanded, the margin very thin, umber with a rufescent tinge, tender, 

 quite smooth ; margin not striate ; JJesh pure white. Gids broad, 

 rounded. Stnji 3 inches high, 2 lines or more thick, above tomento^o- 

 squanndose, below fibrillose, twisted, exceedingly brittle. Oilonr like 

 tiiat o^ A.J'(istd>dis. 



212. A. phiehop/ioruSf D'lim. (veiny Agaric) ; pileus subcar- 

 nosc smootli, more or less venoso-rng;ose, stem fistulose incurvcMl 

 smooth. l)dm. in Sturnis Deidsch. FL t. 15. Nees, Syst.f. 

 202. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. \. p. 200. Grcv. FL Fd. p^SSYy. 

 Sc. Crypt. FL t. 173. — A. reticidatvs, With. v. 4. p. 2.55.-/1. 

 moUinscidus, Sow. t. 174. — A. vascipcSy Fr. L c. 



On rotten stumps, wood, Sec. .Tnly — Oct. Kare. Edgbaston. 

 Withering. Under poplar trees in Lambeth Marsh. Soircr/ty. 

 Foxhall near lulinbnrgh. ('(ij>fai/t Mdugh and J)r. GrunUr. liiggin, 

 Norths. Hlu. M. J. JJtrlicliy.^''Pdcus \—2\ inches broad, shglilly 



• I find, however, i\\o procfssos in tlic nnnnid statrof yl. 7Y»//. /^^• siinj>Iy 

 ronJcal with three spicule!}. The pubesccuce uf Uu' pileus tousi&ls cutiuly K>i 

 elongated cells. 



