52 FUNGI. [Agaricus. 



130. A, Cldvns, Bull, (pin Agaric) ; pileus subcarnose nearly 

 plane orange-red, gills fixed rather broad whitish as well as 

 the short smooth stuffed stem. Bull. t. 148. Bolt. t. 39. B. 

 With. V. 4. 'p. 205, Part. v. 3. n. 1478. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 1. 



p. 134. Grev. Fl. Ed. p. 380. 



Amongst leaves, on rotten sticks, &c. Aug. — Oct. Not common. 

 Pophills. Purtoji. Balrauto, &c. Greville. Wansford, Norths. Mar- 

 gate. Rev. M. J. Berlieley. — Pileus ^ — 4 lines broad, campanulate, 

 generally umbonate, margin striate, under a powerful lens most minutely 

 pilose, bright orange, the umbo darkest, subcarnose, within deep orange. 

 Gills few, somewhat ventricose, adnexed or adnate with shorter ones 

 between them, white tinged with yellow. Stem about 1 inch long, 

 quite filiform, flexuous, nearly equal, minutely pilose like the pileus, 

 pale yellow with a line within showing it to be fistulose. When grow- 

 ing on sticks there are a few minute strigae at the base. 



131. A. rajnedlis, Bull, (stick Agaric); pileus subcarnose 

 nearly plane dirty-white with a rufescent tinge, gills white 

 adnate, stem stuffed short mealy. Bull. t. 336. With, v. 4. 

 p. 149. Purt. V. 3. n. 1438. Fr. Syst, Myc. v. I. p. 135. 

 Grev. Fl. Ed. p. 381. Pers. Myc, Eur. p. 124. — A. candidus, 

 Bull. t. 39. D. 



Common upon small decaying branches, especially of bramble and 

 hazel, during the whole year. — Gregarious. Pileus 3 — 4 lines broad, 

 plano-convex, at length wrinkled and depressed, pale-rufescent the 

 centre darker, under a lens clothed with minute matted silkiness. Gills 

 distant, adnate, sometimes broad behind, whitish or subrufescent ; mar- 

 gin denticulate. Stem \ — \ inch high, \ line thick, curved, fibrillose 

 with furfuraceous scales ; the base minutely dilated, whitish or subru- 

 fescent. — I believe A. amadelphus to be only a state of this species. 

 The gills are not unfrequently reddish or ochraceous ; generally so in 

 decay, and though often narrow, they vary in breadth and degree of 

 adherence to the stem. 



132. A. parasiticus, Bull, {parasitic Agaric); pileus sub- 

 carnose convex soon plane pruinose pale-grey, gills thick ad- 

 nate darker, stem fistulose villous. Bull. t. bl4:. f. 2, Sow, 

 t. 343. Fr, Syst. Myc. v. I. p. 135. Pers. Myc. Eur. v. 3. p, 

 127. — A. iimhratus, With, v, 4. p). 186. — 3Ierulius parasiticus, 

 Purt. V. 3. n. 1425 (in part). 



On blackened Agarics. Aug. — Oct. Not common. Oban, Argyle- 

 shire. Thornhaugh. Norths. Ilev. M. J. Berkeley. — Pz'/eMSjofan 

 inch broad, conico-campanulate, silky, subcarnose, somewhat irregular, 

 grey with a slight tinge of umber at the apex ; Jlesh dark. Gills darker 

 than the pileus, paler at the edges, thick, distant, somewhat forked and 

 anastomosing, connected by veins broader towards the apex, slightly 

 adnate, ventricose. Stem 1 — 2 inches liigh, 1 line thick, thickest 

 downwards, very silky es[)ecially at the base, crisp, dark within. Odour 

 like that of Polyporus squamosus. 



Fries has made a new genus of this somewhat anomalous species in 

 \\\e Si/n. Orb. Veg., under the name of iVyc^rt//A% characterized by its 

 universal silky veil and fold-like gills. But in his Ind. Alph., which 

 contains his latest views,'! can find no trace of it, and therefore con- 



