Agaricus.] 



FUNGI, 77 



subumbonatc snbscriceous livid, gills adnato dull rose-coloured, 

 stem hollow smooth white. Fi\ Syst. Myc. v. \. p.\^7 — A. 

 Jnjdrogrammus, Bull. t. 564./ C,D.E,0.—A. rcpandus, Bolt. 

 t.Q. 



Tastiircs and wootls, amongst leaves. Sept. Probably not uneonnnon. 

 Near Halifax. Bollon. East Morden. Dors. King's Clitle, Norths. 

 lltv.M. J. Berkeley.— P ileus \\—1\ inches broad, plano-cxpanded or 

 subdepressed, occasionally minutely unibonate, ochraceons with a brown- 

 ish tint, the margin sometimes darker and waved, in large specimens siib- 

 carnosc,smoothandshiningwith a satiny lustre, most minutely silky under 

 a lens, but the silkiness is quite adpressed. Gills very broad, thick and 

 adnatc, more or less roun(.led behind and separating from the stem, 

 covered with elongated conical processes, surmounted by three divari- 

 cate spicuhe. Sponiks elliptic, rose-coloured. Ste?n 2—4 inches 

 jiigh, 2 lines or more thick, hollow, stringy within or occasionally with 

 transverse imperfect partitions, subflexuous, pulverulent at the apex, 

 downy at the base, minutely fibrilloso-striate. Odour strong, sometimes 

 resembling that of nitric acid, sometimes that of Polyporus squamosus. 



206. A.fcrtilis, Pers. (fertile Agaric) ; pilous subumbonate 

 smooth or pulveruleuto-squamulose, gills flesh-coloured ad- 

 uexed, stem stuffed smootli or fibrillose subbulbous. Pcrs. 

 Sipi. p. 328. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. I. p. 197. — A. phonos^^ermuSy 

 Bull. t. 534, 547./. 1. 590. 



Amongst rotten leaves. Cottcrstock, Norths. Oct. 27, 182G. — 

 Subgregarious. Piltus A\ inches broad, expanded, obtuse, somewhat 

 lobed, pulverulcnto-sqnamulose, fleshy, dry, i)inkish-bufr, with some- 

 times a tinge of yellow. Gills rose-coloured, adnexcil, nearly free. 

 »S;>o;v//<?.s' rose-coloured. Stem'2h — SHnches high, 1^ — 1 inch thick, 

 stufled, firm, fibrillose, subsquamnlosc, subcompresscd, somewhat bul- 

 bous at the base, paler than the pilous. Odour like that of fresh meal. 

 My specimens resemble very much those figured by Bu/l. t. 500 ^y 

 547. /. 1, except that the pileus is not smooth, nor the stem white. 

 The species seems to be very variable, but the following one dillers 

 so materially that I cannot but regard it as distinct. On January 27, 

 1834, specimens occurred at Apethorpe, Norths., dillcring from the 

 state described above in being smaller, of a livid-bistrc anil decidedly 

 viscid. The (lills were tj of an inch broad, distant, very thick, con- 

 nected and traversed by veins. Sinn white, fibrillose, generally split. 

 There was the same strong smell of meal. 



207. A. warninosus, Bolt, {undxmatc rose-gillcd Agaric); 

 pileus at first strongly unil)onato, gills adiiexed j)ale llesli- 

 coloured, stem solid nearly equal fii)rillose. Bolt. t. 09. With. 

 V. 4. p. 213. Burt. n. 936. 



Woods anil pastures. Autunni. Stibbington. Hunts. Po.J.M. 

 Brrhh'.}/. Pihus 2 inches broad, convex, very strongly unibonate, less 

 so iiowcvcr, when fiilly expanded, when it is plano-convex, of a pinki^h- 

 grcy or cinereous, the apex darkest, nearly smooth, shining, but under 

 a lens subsericcous ; margin compressed when \oung. Gills slightly 

 vcntricose, nearly free, but connected with the stem by a tooth ; .some- 

 times notched and waved. Sjforulrs rose-coloured. S/rm i) inches 

 high, i — I an inch thick, nearly e«|ual, when young swollen al the base, 



