Agaricus.] FUNGI. 07 



slightly silky. GUIs yellow, arcuato-subdecurrcnt, beautifully ronucctcd 

 by veins. Stem ] — 2 inches high, ^ — 1 line thick, scarcely fistulosc, 

 yellow above then rufescent, clothed with little yellow scales, thickest 

 below and there covered .with a dense, tawny tomcntum. — A beaulilul 

 S])ecics, resembling A. stipiUirins and A.fcvttdas. 



174. A, spliugnicoUi, Berk. (/?«/e fumicl-shaped Agaric); 

 rather elastic, pileus iiifuiidibulifbrm, gills narrow dirty 

 ocLraceous, stem fistulose. 



On Sph(((jnum acutifuUum, adhering by its do\vny base. June 21, 

 1827. Chartley Moss, Staffs. — Whole plant tough and elastic. Odour 

 scarcely any. Pileus 1 — \}j inch broad, funnel-shaped from a very early 

 stage of growth, faintly striate and minutely squamulose, dirty ochra- 

 ceous, becoming darker in age : moist but not viscid. Gills pale, 

 decurrcnt, narrow, moderately distant, thick so as to present in front a 

 flat edge. Sporuks white. Stem 1 — 2 inches long, 1 line thick, hol- 

 low, somewhat crooked, smooth, except at first when it is very minutely 

 squamulose above : in age it is nearly pervious above. — This species 

 agrees in many points with A. epichysium, var. icmudophila ; but its 

 tough and elastic nature is so different, that I cannot but consider it 

 as distinct. The pileus is not membranaceous even on the edge, which 

 must separate it from A. pjjxidatus. 



** Pileus carnoso-memhrayiaceous. Gills adnate. 



175. A. frdgrajis,So\v, (anise- scented Agaric) ; stronp^-scented, 

 pilous nearly plane dirty-white white when dry, gills distinct 

 white as well as tlie hollow attenuated stem. Soic. t. 10. With. 

 V. 4. p. 154. Pers. Syn. p. 455. Pr. Syst. Myc. v. \.p. 171. 

 Grev. PL Ed. p, 384. Pers. Myc. Eur. v. 3. p. 107. L 27. f. 5. 



Woods and mossy pastures. Aug. — Oct. Not uncommon. Cla- 

 verton Downs, near Bath. Major Velley. Edgbaston. Wd/n/t/iii. 

 Scotland. GreviUe. Cottcrstock, King's Cliflb, Norths. Tlcv. M. J. 

 Bcrhehy. — Pileus I — 2 inches broad, convex, then plano-convex, mi- 

 nutely dimpled, dirty white, very rarely slightly zoned, when dry nearly 

 white; margin thin and transparent, turned in when young and minutely 

 tomentosc. Gills very broad, decurrcnt, distinct, not pure white. 

 Sf(m 2 — 3 inches high, 2 — 3 lines thick, attenuated upwards, minutely 

 fibrillosc, villous at the base, sometimes pruinose above. Odour very 

 agreeable like that of aniseed. 



17G. A. mctachrous, Fr. {changcahle-colotircd Agaric) ; 

 inodorous, gills close dirty-white, stem at length hollow equal 

 pruinose above. Pr. Syst. Myc. v. I. p. 172. — A. cyathiformis^ 

 Bull. t. 248. Purt. v. 3. n. 1429. 



In woods. Oct. Canterbury. Ih >\ M. J. Berkeley. — Subciespitosc. 

 rUiUS 1 — 2 inches broad ; in its very earliest stauc of growth conic, 

 gradually depressed, but in general not deeply infundibuliform, almost 

 nicmbranaceons ; wlicn moist livid-groy, margin which is slightly turned 

 in pellucid, when dry nearly white. Gills of the same colour as tlu; 

 pileus adnate scarcely decurrcnt, not ventricose, not turning pair so 

 fast as the pileus, often sei)arating from the stem at the base. S(t m 

 3 inches or more high, at length hollow, the outer Mesh livid, inner 

 white, downy at the base, minutely fibrUlu:JC above under the Icus, 



