Agaricus.] PUNGT. 49 



fistulose, and not so tomentose in t. 524./. 1. ; and Sowerby^s plant, 

 though figured as hollow, is said in the text to he often solid. Fries has 

 carefully re-examined the point and finds nothing to alter on a comparison 

 of specimens o{ A.porrei/s, A..scoro(lonius, and A. (lUificeiis. My plant 

 is certainly the same as that of vSowerby and I'urton, aud I think also 

 that intended by Fries. Klotzsch's sjjecimens, both Scottish anti 

 German, are clearly identical. Specimens on the other hand from the 

 station mentioned by Greville in FL Ed. and marked by him, are 

 certainly different from the true A. alliaams. Persoon in the jMi/c. 

 Eur. unites the plants of Sowerby and Greville as a variety of his 

 A. croceus, keeping A. jwrreus, Fr. distinct with Bulliard's synonyn). 



122. A,fusco-p2irpurevs, Pers. (purple-hrown Agaric) ; pilous 

 subcarnose nignlose purple- brown turning pale, gills free 

 rufescent, stem listnlose rusty, base elongated and strigoso. 

 Pers, Ic. 8)' Descr. Fung. t. 4. /. 1 — 3. Fr. Sgst. Mijc. v. 1. p. 

 128. 



Woods on beech leaves and small rotten sticks. Yarwell, Norths. 

 Sept. 28, 1827. llev. M. J. Berkeley. — Gregarious. Plkus 1 inch or 

 more broad ; at first conic, obtuse, then expanded, rugose, dark brown- 

 purple, changing to pallid umber, subcarnosc; flesh white, firm, elastic. 

 GUIs slightly ventricose, almost free, nearly of the same colour as the 

 pilcus : not very close, the edge dark denticulate. Sporuhs white, 

 round. Stem 1^ inch long, 2 lines thick, fistulose, composed of fibres, 

 sometimes slightly compressed, elastic, distinct from the pileus, umber, 

 with a few scattered dark fibrillose specks, strigose at the base, the 

 •strigai pale-brown, and sending down many matted roots amongst the 

 leaves on which it grows. 



Subgenus 9. Collybia ; (from zoa/.-j(So:, a sinull piece of 

 money). Stem Jistulose, though often very indistinctly so, skndtr, 

 equal, round, firm, often rooting. Pileus carnoso-mcmhrauaccousy 

 tough, convex, then plane, sometimes depressed iii the centre, smooth, 

 dry. Gills obtuse behind, free or fixed, never decurrent, uner/ual, 

 juiceless, plane, quite entire. — Small dry pers iste?it fungi, grouping 

 on tJie ground or ejnphytes. 



* Gills genuine. 



123. A. scorod6?iius,Yv. (small garlic Agaric) ; strong-scent- 

 ed, pileus subcarnose dirty-white as well as the cri>p atlnate 

 gills, stem short smooth fistulose rufous. Fr. Sysf. Myc. v. 1. 

 J). 130. Pers. Myc. Juir. v. li. jt. 129. Klatzsch, Fung, d'lnn. 

 exs. n. 1(). — A. alliutus, Schaff. t. 1)9. Pers. Syn. p. 373. 

 Tratt. Fssb. Schxv. p. G2. t. IL— Fungus, c^c. 3Jich. p. 144. /. 

 77. /. 2. 



Heaths and dry |)asturcs. — " J'dnis J? an iiu h or more broad, plane, 

 rugulose. G'iV/.v connected by veins, seceiling. .S7(7/j 1 inih or more high, 

 nearly 1 line thick, scarcely rootini:." /'/. /. r. — My only authority for tin- 

 admission of this species as British, is a single dried specimen in a col- 

 iectiou of fungi from the neighbourhood of liunuav, niade l)y Mr. 

 Stock. It is, however, in such ^ood condition, ami >o cIom'Iv resem- 

 bles Schalltr'b figure, that 1 feci tiuitc confident of its being llic true 



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