48 FUNGI. [Agaricus. 



expanded, sometimes umbonate, carnoso-coriaceous, subrutescent or 

 yellowish, pallid when dry, clothed with a minute matted silkiness. 

 Gills of the colour of the pileus with a yellowish margin, distant, 

 rounded behind, almost free. Stem 2 — 3 inches high, 2 lines thick, 

 composed of fibres, solid above and downy, hollow below and there 

 covered with dense yellow strigag. Taste acrid. — A. urens, Bull, figured 

 in FL Dan. t. 2018,/. 1., is Fries' var. ,S tomentellus. 



120. A. oreades, Bolt, {fairy-ring Agaric^ Scotch bonnets. 

 Champignon); pileus fleshy tough subumbonate, first rufous 

 then pallid, gills distant whitish as \vell as the round solid 

 fibrous-barked stem. Bolt. ^.131. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. Lp, 

 127. Grev. FL Ed. p. 379. Sc. Crijp, FL t. 323. Klotzsch, 

 Fung. Germ. exs. n. 14. — A Orcades, With. v. 4. p. 202. 

 Purt. V. 2 Sf 3. 91. 932. — A. caryophyllcBus, Schceff. t. 77. 

 Pers. Myc. Eur. v. 3. p. 144. — A. pseudo.mouceron, Bull. t. 

 144, 528./. 2. — A.pratensis, Soiv. t. 247. 



Pastures, often forming rings. May — Nov. Common. — Gregarious. 

 Pileus ^ — l inch broad, smooth, fleshy, convex, at length nearly plane, 

 more or less umbonate, generally more or less compressed and sinuate, 

 tough, coriaceous, elastic, wrinkled and sometimes cracked, watery 

 brown ; as it becomes dry cream-coloured ; margin pale. Flesh white, 

 quite distinct from that of the stem. Gills free, pale, distant, slightly 

 ventricose. Stem 1 — 2 inches high, 2—3 lines thick, equal, solid, 

 very tough, composed of fibres splitting longitudinally, the outer coat 

 squamuloso-fibrous, base downy, somewhat rooting and attached to the 

 roots of grass. Taste and odour strong but agreeable. Though tough, 

 much used as an article of food on the continent and occasionally in 

 this country, but too frequently very different and poisonous fungi are 

 gathered under the name. See Mush, and Champ., Illust, by J. D. C. 

 Sowerby, Jan. and Roques, Hist, des Champ, p. 115. It seems to 

 vary in the degree of smoothness of the stem. 



\2\, A.porreus, Fr. {velvety garlic Agaric) ; strong-scented, 

 pileus subcarnose even, gills almost free white, stem long downy 

 rufescent. Fr. Syst. Myc. v.l.p. 128. FL Dan. t. 2020. / 2. 

 Klotzsch, Fung. Germ. exs. n. 15. — A. alliaceus, Bull. t. 158, 

 524. / 1. Sow. t. ^\. Purt. v. 2 &; 3. n. 959. t. 11 — A. 

 peronatus, var. 3. With. v. 4. p. 196. 



In woods, amongst dead leaves especially oak-leaves. Sept.— Nov. 

 Not common. Oversley wood. Purton. Scotland. Klotzch, in Hook. 

 Herb. Colly weston. Norths. Rev. M. J. Berkeley.— Pileus |— 1 

 inch broad, plane slightly depressed, dirty-white with a brownish shade, 

 paler on the margin which is membranaceous, and regularly striate. 

 Gills nearly free, paler than the pileus, slightly connected by veins. 

 Stem 2—3 inches high, 2—3 lines thick, velvety, albido-pulverulent, 

 as is at once evident even in dry specimens, rufescent, tomentose below, 

 pale above, fistulose ; generally growing on the midrib of the leaves. 

 Odour like that of garlic, very powerful. Specimens in Sowerby's 

 Herbarium gathered July 31, 1796, still retain their garlic scent.— 

 Bulliard's plant t. 158, has the stem attenuated upwards, more tomen- 

 tose and solid, and the gills not so distant, and in consequence a doubt 

 has arisen whether it is correctly quoted here. The stem, however, is 



