54 ]?UNGI. [Affaricus. 



grooved and notched, under a lens clothed with a minute matted silki- 

 iiess. GiHs adnate, sometimes quite simple (about 15) with shorter 

 ones between and no rugas ; occasionally forked with wrinkles in the 

 interstices. Stem 1—2 inches high, filiform, quite smooth, shining- 

 black, twisted when dry, often branched and sarmentose at the base 

 like the last. — A. androsaceus, Sow. t. 94, though represented as 

 growing on oak-leaves, is pronounced by Fries to be A. jjerforans; 

 but an inspection of the specimens in Sowerby's Herbarium proves them 

 to be undoubtedly the true A. androsaceus. A. jjerforans, of which I 

 have before me specimens from Mougeot, is quite different. The stem 

 is not smooth and shining, but velvety. I am not aware that it has 

 been found in Great Britain. 



136. A. caulicindlis, Bu[\. (small scaly Agaric) ; pileus imi- 

 bilicate whitish minutely velvety or scaly, gills nearly free, 

 stem bright brown subfistulose fibrillose or scaly. Bull, t. 

 522./. 1. Pers. 3Iyc, Eur. v. 3. p. 156. — A. stipitarius, Fr, 

 Syst. Myc. v. 1. p. 138 A. scabellus, Alb. &>^ Schiv, t. 9./. 6. 



On grass, sticks, stumps, &c. Aug. — Sept. Not uncommon. — On 

 grass. Dickson in Sowerby's Herbarium, marked " JL. gra7nineus f On 

 living Festuca j)innata, at Wansford, Norths. On Clematis Vitalba, at 

 Margate. — Pileus 2 — 7 lines broad, convex at first and minutely umbo- 

 uate, then expanded, depressed or umbilicate, whitish, with small shining 

 red-brown scales, disposed sometimes in zones, rendering the margin 

 jagged ; in large specimens it is sulcate. Gills distant with very few 

 fthorter ones, nearly free, thickish, of a yellowish tinge, various in 

 breadth, sometimes rather ventricose. Stem f — 1| inch high, not h a 

 line thick, flexuous, filiform, clothed with red-brown woolly tomentum 

 or squamules, darker than the pileus, often perforating the substance 

 on which it grows, composed of fibres, with a narrow fistulose line 

 down the centre. — I have long considered A. scabellus as the same 

 species with the present, though placed by Fries in "Derminus,'" and 

 gathered by himself. Persoon has come to the same conclusion in the 

 Mi/c. Fur. and Fries in the Ind. Alp/i. declares himself to be now of 

 the same opinion. I strongly suspect A. graminicokiy Nees v. Esen- 

 beck, to be another form. The gills are indeed darker, but the colour- 

 ing of his plates is generally too much exaggerated ; his description 

 does not accord ill with it. When in perfection, few Agarics are more 

 elegant. 



137. A.fcetidus, Sow. (small foetid Agaric) ; pileus convexo- 

 plane umbilicate plicate bay-tawny, gills paler adhering to a 

 collar, stem velvety fistulose bright brown. Fr. Syst. Myc. 

 V. I. p. 138. Grev. Fl. Ed. p. 382. — Mendius fceddus, Soto. 

 t, 21. With. V. 4. 2?. 146. Felh. Fl. Ca?it. ed. 3. p. 520.^ A. 

 venosus, Pers. Myc. Eur. v. S. ]?. 275. 



Eottenwood. Aug. — Nov. Eare. Madingley Wood,Camb. i?e//m?«. 

 Foxhall, near Edinburgh. Captain Wauc/i. Scent like that of garlic. 

 Fel/f. Soiv. — " Pileus ^ — f of an inch broad, convex, rarely quite plane, 

 plicate, reddish-brown, thin, glabrous. Gills adnate, yellow, narrow, dis- 

 tant. Ste7?i 1 inch high, thin, dark-brown, minutely velvety or hairy." 

 Grev. I. c. At the base is a small radiated membrane. This appears to 

 be a rare species. Purton's plant is not certainly the true one, accord- 

 ing to his own statement. In Dr. Hooker's Herbarium are specimens 



