68 rUNGi. [Agaricus. 



apex pulverulent. Sometimes the pileus is irregular and the stem 

 compressed. Taste like that of A. Oreacks. — My specimens accord 

 well with Bulliard's figure, and appear really distinct from A. cyathi- 

 formis. It must, however, be considered as a variety of Fries' species : 

 "indeed his description scarcely accords with the figiu'e, but he states it 

 to be most variable. 



177. A. cyatliiformis, Bull. Qate cap-shaped Agaric) ; pileus 

 subcarnose infundibuliform even smootli blackish-umber, margin 

 reflexed, gills distant cinereous, stem elastic attenuated upwards. 

 Bull. t. 575, 568./. 1. Fr. Syst. Myc.v. l.;^. 173. Grev. Fl. 

 Ed. p. 385.—^. sordidus, Dicks. Crypt, p. 16. t. 3./. 1. Bolt. 

 t. 59. Sow. t. 363. With. v. 4. /;. 186. Purt. v. 3. n. 1444, 

 S^ V. 2 S)^ 3 n. 940 (^A. 2imbilicatics.) — A. tardus, Pers. 3Iyc. 

 Eur. V. 3.7?. 80.—^. cyafhoides, Bolt. t. 145. 



Pastures and woods. Oct. — Jan. Extremely common. — Pileus 2^ 

 inches or more broad, subcarnose, more or less infundibuliform, the 

 margin often wavy involute and minutely downy, dark blackish-umber 

 with a shade of red, of a moist unctuous appearance but not the least 

 viscid ; pellucid when moist, nearly white when dry. Gills rather 

 distant, of the same colour, apparently (but not truly) decurrent on 

 account of the form of the pileus ; adnate when young. Stem 2 — 3^ 

 inches long, -^ an inch thick at the base, subfibrillose, at length hollow, 

 tough, elastic. — A small variety occurs not one inch broad, agreeing in 

 colour ; but the gills are almost ventricose and more distant, the stem 

 more nearly equal, the margin more crisped. Both when young are 

 convex and not truly umbilicate ; in the true form there is a minute 

 umbo. The gills are not then the least decurrent. In A. cyatJiiforniis 

 the gills are subasccnding, rounded behind ; in the variety subventricose 

 horizontal and adnate with a tooth ; in the one of a cinereous, in the 

 other of an umber tint. 



*** Pileus carnosO'Coriaceous, somewhat corhj, tough and pliant. 

 Gills decurrent.* 



178. A. Dundlii, Dec. {DunaVs Agaric); pileus unequal 

 dirty-white adorned with blackish scales, gills unequal white, 

 stem equal squamulose at the base. Dec. Fl. Fr. v. 6. p. 47. 

 Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 1./;. 177. 



On the root of a large ash tree overhanging a pond by the water-side 

 at Cranbournc, Dors., immediately below Lord Salisbury's old house. 

 June 14, 1826. On a willow by the Trent. Aug. 1834^.— Csespitose. 

 FUcus 2 inches broad, more or less unequal, carnoso-coriaceous, um- 

 bilicate, the margin deflcxed, sometimes variously split and sinuated, 

 yellow-white with brownish rather close scales, the margin nearly 

 smooth. Gills dichotomous, crenatc, sinuated, covered with minute 

 spiculae, subdecurrent. Stem 1 inch high, 3 lines thick, tough, the 

 lower j)art clothed with dark nearly square adpressed scales ; the upper 

 half not scaly, white, resembling the under-side of white kid-leather. 

 Odour subacid, farinaceous. 



* Fries has formed anew genus of this division under the name oi Lentinvs ; 

 but I am not quite convinced of the propriety of doing so, tliere heinsc throui^^h 

 A. cochleatus a regular gradation of increasing closeness in the flesh of the 

 pileus. Some of tUo ncvt subgenus have almost the same substance. 



