60 FUNGI. [Agaricus, 



A. scorodonius. According to Persoon and Trattinnick, notwithstand- 

 ing its strong garlic scent, it forms an article of food. 



124. A, esculentus, VYulf. {small esculent Agaric); pileus 

 subcarnose obtuse clay-coloured, gills adnexed 'loose white, 

 stem fistulose rooting smooth yellowish. Wulf. in Jacq. ColL 

 2. t, 14./. 4. Pers. Syn. p. 389. Tratt. Essb. Schw. p. 65. 

 t. 1. Fr. St/St. Myc. v. 1. p. 131.— A Clavus, Schceff. t. 59. 

 Pers, Myc. Eur. v. 3. p. 150. — A. perjmidicularisy Bull. t. 422. 



/. 2. 



Fir plantations. Oct. — May. Very common in Scotland. Klotzsch, 

 in Hook. Herb. Blackadder plantations, Berwickshire. Johnston. — 

 " Pileus I an inch or more broad, sometimes striate and occasionally 

 fuscous. Gills broad, rather close. Stem 2 inches high, 1 line thick, 

 obsoletely fistulose. Root generally smooth." Fr. I. c. The root is 

 sometimes six inches long and downy when growing amongst leaves, 

 either perpendicular or flexuous. Much eaten in Austria, where, in 

 the beginning of April, large baskets of it are brought to market under 

 the name of NagelscJncainme, which accords with Linnaeus's name, 

 A. Clavus. It has, however, a bitter, unpleasant taste. 



125. A. tenacellus, Pers. {dark fir-cone Agaric); pileus sub- 

 carnose, gills adnexed loose subdistant rather broad snow- 

 Avhite, stem fistulose very long tawny, the base villous and 

 rooting. Pers. Ic. Pict. t.l.f. 3, 4. Fr. Sysf. 3Iyc. v. 1. p. 

 131. Fl. Dan. t. 2021. /. 2. — A. spi?iipes, Soiv. t. '206. 



On fir-cones, principally those of the spruce fir. Oct. — Nov. Kot 

 uncommon. Ashton, Norths. Lambley, Notts. Rev. M. J. BcrMey. 

 — Pileus ^ — 1 inch broad, when young conic, then convex and sub- 

 hemisphaerical, at length expanded and nearly plane, sometimes slightly 

 umbilicate ; not striate, subcarnose, smooth, dry, cinereous, inclining 

 to yellowish : often altogether abortive. Gills free or often adnexed, 

 ventricose, sometimes remarkably so, rather distant, the shorter ones 

 truncate behind ; in general pure white but sometimes with a tinge of 

 grey ; under a powerful lens covered with variously hooked or conic 

 papillce. Stem 2—4 inches long, scarcely 1 line thick, flexuous, filiform, 

 attenuated very much towards the base and somewhat strigose, hollow, 

 pale above, below tawny, very minutely pubescent under a good lens ; 

 when young beautifully downy and then not distinctly hollow, but with 

 only a pale line down the centre. Taste very pleasant. 



126. A. conigenus, Pers. {inealy -stemmed fir-cone Agaric) ; 

 pileus subcarnose unequal, gills free close linear dirty- white, 

 stem fistulose pulverulent, base rooting strigose. Pers. Syn. 

 p. 388. Myc. Eur. v. 3. p. 153. {excl. var. spinipes). Fr. Syst. 

 Myc. v.\. p. 132.—^. hippopi7ius, With. v. 4. p. 188. Purt. 

 v.^3.7i. 1452. 



On fir-cones, principally of the Scotch fir. Oct.— Nov. Probably 

 not uncommon. Packington, Warw. Withering. Bunker's Hill, 

 near Stourbridge, Worcest. Purton. Ashton, Norths. Beeston, Notts. 

 Rev. 31. J. Berkeley.— Gi-egavious. Pileus 1 inch or more broad, 

 rather irregular, umbonate, expanded, often depressed, sometimes quite 

 smooth, but occasionally more or less lanato-pubescent ; sometimes 



