Agaricus.] FUNGI. 57 



1^ — 3^ inches high, not 1 line broad, not rooting, blue below, above 

 subrufescent, the tonientum below depressccl and blue, above nearly 

 white, minutely but distinctly fasciculato-pilose ; in very elongated spe- 

 cimens obsolete. — Another form has the pileus much longer, subcam- 

 panulate, rutescent, varied with yellow-green towards the margin and 

 blue nearer to the centre ; sometimes the whole rufescent except the 

 extreme margin which is deep blue. The gills paler, but not always so, 

 and more denticulate, their edges milky. Smell strong. — A most ele- 

 gant though small species. The variety is not unlike the state o^ A, 

 galericulatus figured by Sowerby in form and disposition of colour ; 

 but its essential characters are quite different. 1 can find no descrip- 

 tion at all answering to it. A. amictus seems the nearest, and on this 

 account, but especially because of the nature of the gills, though it has 

 no root, it is placed next to it. The wood on which it grew was very 

 little decayed; and perhaps under other circumstances the stem might 

 have been elongated in a softer nidus, and have assumed the appearance 

 of a root. 



144. A. pcn/perctdiis, Berk, {srnall tcJiite rooting Agaric) ; 

 strong'-scented, pileus obtuse minutely innato-fibrillose, gills at 

 first free then adnexed, stem smooth except the rooting base. 



Inside of decayed stumps. Clifton, Notts. J^ept. 20, 1832. — Pileus 

 1 line broad, fleshy, for the size of the plant firm, scarcely niembrane- 

 ous, obtusely conic or hemisphierical, most minutely but decidedly 

 innato-fibrillose, pale ocliraceous-white, in age almost tawny, probably 

 stained by the wood on Avhich it grows. M'hen moist, the gills shine 

 through, giving it a striate ai)pearance, but not always. Gills white, 

 adnexed by reason of the growth of the pileus ; in youth they are really 

 free. Sporules white, round. Stem ^ — 1 inch high, h a line thick, 

 white, curved, rooting, the root villous, minutely stuffed", smooth, even 

 under a high magnit\ing power, powdered at the toj) with the sporules, 

 generally thicker below. OdDur farinaceous. — Allicil to A. olralifif/s, 

 but I think distinct from all its small varieties. For its size it is nuicli 

 more ffeshy, and seems to have no tendency to be coloured Uke that 

 i>j)ecies. 



** Stem even, Jiiicelcss, more or less rootijig. Gills adnatc; 

 the margin of the same colour. 



145. A. nlcalinvs^ Fr. {strong-scented helmet Agaric) ; strongf- 

 secnted, pileus obtuse cinereous striate, gills adiuito white 

 then glaucous, stem oven firm villous at the base. Fr. Sgsf. 

 ]\[}jc. V. 1. p. 14i\ — Fungus mullijdejc obtuse conicus, S)C. )'aill, 

 Jiot.pnr.p. 71.^ 12. /. I, 2. 



Woods and hedges, on sticks, stumps, (.^-c. Very conunon. Ashton, 

 Norths. Margate, Sec. J{n\ ]\I. J. Jhrhelri/. — Solitary or dciisily 

 ca'spitosc. Pileus \ — 2 inches broad, subcaniose, uml)oiiaie, siibuiii- 

 bonate or (juite obtuse, even, with or without iml)cd(led fihrilla* at first 

 conico-papill-.ite, rugose, cinereous or tingid with olive, siibstriate, wlit-u 

 old expaiidfd or depressed hut little elianged in colonr, though t)tcn- 

 hionally with a pink or yellow hue. dills adnato with a tooth, distant, 

 when old slightly ventricose, nt first pale then glaucous, |)inkish or yel- 

 lowish, more or less connrctrd by veins. Asri ilistitut, linear, clavate, 

 sporules (luilc globose. Stun 3 inches high, 1 — 2 linca thick, fistulose. 



