58 FUNGI. [Agaricus. 



subfibrilloso-striate, attenuated upwards, downy at the base, the down 

 sometimes rather tawny, sometimes firm and tenacious, sometimes very 

 brittle, grey above, yellowish or reddish beneath when young, but when 

 old sometimes changing above to a bright yellow. Odour pungent, 

 like that of fermented or putrid walnuts.— A very variable species ; 

 often passing away into a loathsome mass before it fully expands, some- 

 times becoming dry and tough, but still with the same peculiar odour 

 and a taste similar to it. 



146. A. galcriculdtus, Scop, {helmet ^^f/nc) /inodorous, 

 pileus uneven broAvnish, gills dirty-white adnate with a decur- 

 rent tooth, stem even tough, the base rooting strigose. Scop. 

 Fl Cam. n. 1564. Sch(£ff. t. 52. Sow. t. 165. Purt. v. 2 

 Sf 3. ti. 941. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 1. p. 143. Grev. Fl. Ed. p. 



382. Fungus midlijjkx campaniformis, S^c, Vaill. Bot. Pur. p. 



73. t. 12. / 3, A.^A.Jistulosus, Bull. ^. 5J8. (in part.)— A. va- 

 rius, With. v. 4. p. 217. Purt. v. 3. w. 1459.—^. proliferus, 

 Sow. t. 169. 



On or about trunks of trees, &c. Autumn. Extremely common.— 

 Solitary or densely caispitose. Pileus 3—9 lines broad, sometimes, 

 however, much larger, campanulate or conical, often subumbonate, at 

 length depressed, innato-fibrillose, striate, brownish-white, with some- 

 times tints of bltie or yellow. Gills rather distant, not so broadly 

 adnate as the last, sometimes nearly free, often pinkish. Stem very 

 various in length, rigid, smooth, except at the base which is densely 

 strigose. Inodorous, insipid. 



*** Stemjuiceless, striated. Gills with the margin of the 

 same colour, 



147. A. polygrmnmus, Bull, (scored Agaric); pileus obso- 

 letely striate subcinereous, gills white attenuato-adnexed, stem 

 long rigid striate shining. Bidl. t. 395. Soio. t. 222. Fr. 

 Syst. Myc. v. 1. p. 146. Grev. Fl. Ed. p. 383 — A. fistu- 

 losus, Bull, t.olS.f. U.—A. variiis, 4. Purt. v. 3. p. 217. 



Woods, on stumps, especially hazel stumps. Sept. — Dec. Common. 



Pileus 1 — H inches broad, at first cinereous, umber towards the 



margin, glanditorm, pruinose, then livid-brown, conico-campanulate, 

 submembranaceous, rugose with innate fibres, margin striate. Gills 

 rather distant, at first dirty-white, then pinkish, ventricose though 

 sometimes almost linear, all but free, uiargin subserrulate. Stem 3 

 inches high, 1 line or more thick, regularly and deeply striate, the 

 interstices fibrillose, but occasionally the striae are obsolete, silvery, 

 rooting, fistulose, nearly the colour of the pileus, but paler, twisted 

 brittle. Inodorousy insipid. 



**** Stem eve?i, milky ^ somewhat rooting. 



148. A. gdlopus, Pers. {milky helmet Agaric); pileus striate 

 blackish-glaucous, gills fixed white, stem replete with white 

 milk. Pers. Syn. p. 379. FL Dan. t. 1550./. 2. Fr. Syst. 

 Myc. V. 1. p. 148. 



Amongst leaves in woods. Sept.— Oct. Common. Hainault 



