Ar/aricus.] FUNGI. 45 



Rotten stumps, trees, &c. The whole year. Extremely common 



Caespitose. Pikus 1 — 3 inches broad, smooth, slimy, of a beautiful tawny 

 colour, convex, expanded, fleshy ; margin thin subtransparent. Gills 

 ventricose, broad, scarcely adnate, ochraceous. Stem 2 — 9 inches high, 

 I of an inch thick, incurved, velvety, rich tawny-brown, pale above, 

 often compressed and striate, fistulose. 



H. Chondropodes; (from -/ovhog^ cartilage^ and -row^, 2i foot.) 

 Pileus tough, dry. Gills nearly free y close, white. External coat 

 oftJie stem subcartilaginous. 



112. A. fusipes, BuW. (spi7idle-stem7?ied Agaric) ; gregarious, 

 pileus fleshy loose, gills nearly free serrated, stem hollow 

 ventricose sulcate dirty-white rooting. Bidl. t. 106, 516. /. 2. 

 Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 1. ;;. 120. — A. crassipes, Schceff. t. 87, 88. 

 Sow. t, 129. With. V. 4. ;j. 172. Purt. v. 2 Sc S. n, 917. 

 — A. elasticusj With. v. 4. p. 177. Purt. v. 3. p. 199. 



Old trunks of trees, felled stumps, &c. July — Aug. Not uncommon. 

 — Densely tufted. Pileus H inch broad, when young hemispherical, 

 smooth, dull vinous-brown, fleshy, margin incurved ; then expanded, 

 cracked, sometimes tesselated and warty, paler but here and there 

 towards the margin marked with dark patches, as if burnt. Gills 

 pale umber, free or only apparently adnate from the change of form 

 of the i)ileus, sometimes rounded behind and then separating from the 

 stem, as represented by Bulliard t. lOG, they have a rather watery appear- 

 ance, though dry, like that of a piece of half dry parchment, connected 

 by veins, distant. Stem 2 — Cinches long, i — 1 inch thick, ventricose, 

 rooting, paler than the pileus, marked towards the base with little dark 

 specks, striate longitudinally, not truly though apparently fibrillose, often 

 cracked longitudinally and transversely, the transverse cracks extending 

 only through the cartilaginous coat; substance within loose and fibrous, 

 the fibres crisped ; at length hollow. Taste agreeable.— A small variety 

 occurred at Margate, Oct. 9, 1832, amongst grass on buried wood, of a 

 reddish-brown, changing to dirty-white, subviscid when moist. Gills 

 white, broad, ventricose. Stem dark red-brown with sometimes a few 

 scattered branny scales, attenuated below and somewhat strigose, striate, 

 fistulose, the inner walls woolly as in A. erythropus. A. contortus, 

 Bull, seems very like this variety, though more fleshy. 



113. yl. inacululus, Alb. Sc Schw. (spotted Agaric); pileus 

 flesliy nearly plane obtuse dry dirty-white spotted with rufous, 

 gills free close, stem stuffed ventricose striate. Alh. S)- Schir. p. 

 186. /'V. /iV. \. p. 17. — A.carnosiis, Sow. t. 246. Curt. Lond. 

 t. 315. With. V. 4. p. 243.— A. fusipes, h. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 1. 

 /^ 121. 



Fir plantations, in moist mossy places. — " Pileus 3— (I inches broad, 

 even, smooth, truly carnose, rather compact, hemispheric at first with 

 an involute margin, then (juite plane, the margin often repami, w lute, 

 here and there spotted witli rufous, at length altogethi-r dirty-rufv)us. 

 Gills free, very close, narrow, scarcely above 2 lines l)roaiI, linear, dirty- 

 pallid. Stent 3—4 inches high, but much drawn out when growing 

 amongst moss, + — 10 lines thick, stout, une<iual with an obsoU-tc carti- 

 laginous bark, n)ore or less ventricose and atteiuiated below ." /•>. /. r. 

 Nearly allied to A. fusipes. 



