66 FUNGI. [Afjaricus. 



depressed in the centre plane, margin turned down striate, 

 gills distant very broad behind white, stem short pubescent at 

 the base. Liim, Siiec. n. 1192. Fr. El, p. 22.— A. pseiido- 

 cmdrosacetts, Bull. t. 276. Part. v. 3. ii. 1432.—^. viilgusy 

 Holmsk. V. 2. t. 34.—^. ericetorum, Pers. Obs. 1. L 4./. 12. 



Fr, Si/sf. Mijc. V. 1. p. 165. Grev. FL Ed. p, 384 3Ierulius 



fuscus, With. V. 4. />. 144. 



On the ground in sandy and heathy places. May— Nov. Rare. 

 Wixford, on the top of an old wall. Purton. Pentland Hills. GreviUe. 

 Kirriemuir. Klotzsch, in Hook. Herb.— 'Sahgregarious. " Pilctts 

 1 — 1 inch broad, depressed in the centre, margin deflexed and some- 

 times waved, striate, whitish, whitish-brown or yellow, (green, Fl.Dan.)y 

 darker when moist. Gills broad towards the stem, whitish, decurrcnt. 

 Stem \—\ inch high, about I line thick, whitish or yellowish, paler 

 below and pubescent." Grcv. I. c— Liable to great variation in colour 

 and in the length and firmness of the stem. The following varieties, 

 which do not accord with any in Fries, deserve notice : — 



£. Amongst grass in the riding of a wood near Canterbury. Oct. 23, 

 1832. Rev. M. J. Berkelei/.— Grey. Pileus ^ an inch broad, turbinate, 

 imibilicate, more or less plane ; the margin obscurely striate, covered with 

 a minute, matted silkiness, almost membranaceous. Gills broad, de- 

 current, some forked. Stem 1 inch high, equal, subsericeous, some- 

 times curved, rather spongy, the base furnished v>'ith white down. 



?. On a mud wall. Stibbington, Hunts. Rev. M. J. Berkeley.— 

 Brown, inclining to umber ; pileus \ of an inch or more broad, at first 

 minutely farinaceo-squamulose, striate, umbilicate; the margin at length 

 crenulate and less evidently striate ; the whole when dry paler. Gills 

 very distant and broad, some of them forked at the end ; the shorter 

 ones mere wrinkles. Sporides elliptic, white. Stem h an inch high, 

 not 1 line thick, thickest upwards ; when young very minutely squamu- 

 lose, at length smooth, solid. Pers. Myc. Eur. v. 3. t. 28. /. 3. is a 

 very good representation of this, but 1 can find no reference to the 

 figure. 



VI. Abundant in the Scottish Highlands, var. ?nonticola, Klotzsch, 



Pileus 2 — 5 lines broad, yellow, or in more elevated regions, orange, 



pale when dry, margin pHcate, subinvolute and crenulate. Gills paler, 

 sometimes connected by veins. Ste?n 2 — 5 lines high, ^ a line thick, 

 incurved, stuffed and pubescent at the base. 



173. A, Campanella, Batsch, (bell Agaric); subca3spitose, 

 pileus convex umbilicate striate ferruginous, gills yellowish, 

 stem fistulose reddish-brown villous below. Bcdschy El. p. 74. 

 Pers, Syn. p. 469. Nees, St/st. f. 191 {copied from Schceff.) 

 ^A.fragilis, Schceff. t. 230. 



On pine trunks and on the ground. Scottish Highlands. Aug. 

 Klotzsch, in Hook. Herb.—'' Pileus 3—7 lines broad, tough. Gills 

 connected by veins. Stem 2 inches long, rooting firm below." Fr. I. c. 

 — /3. badipus. Solitary or subcaespitose ; stem stuffed, thickened at the 

 base, clothed with ferruginous down. — A. caulicinalis, Soiv. t. 163 — 

 In plantations amongst leaves and fir-cones. Oct. Not common. 

 Mr. JTe//is^ef? of Newmarket. Winkbourn, Notts. Rev. M. J. Berkeley^ 

 — Pileus 3 — 11 lines across, broadly campanulate, umbilicate, some- 

 times quite plane, of a beautiful yellow, inclining to ferruginous, edge 



