Agnricus.] 



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71. A.vellereus, Fr. {fieecrj Agaric); white, pileus tomcutoso 

 rigid, gills narrow distant, milk white, stem solid hhmt. Fr. 

 Syst. Myc. v. I. p. 76. — A. Listeri, Sow. t. 104. Klutzsch, 

 Fling. Germ. exs. n. 9. 



Woods. July — Oct. Exceedingly common. — Vilem 4^—7 inches 

 broad more or less infnndibnliform, the whole surface minutely but 

 densely tomentose ; Nvhite, firm, fleshy ; margin at first involute. Milk 

 white, acrid. Gills white, narrow (but occasionally broad and brittle like 

 A. exsuccua) distant, forked, connected by veins, at length slightly buflf 

 or yellowish, rufescent after being bruised. Stem I inch high, 2 inches 

 thick, blunt, rather less downy than the pileus, solid. 



72. A. exsuccus, Otto, (Jiiicekss Agaric); not milky, pileus 

 infundibuliform clothed with a depressed down, gills broad 

 crisp pallid. — A. vellereus, var. exsuccus, Fr. Syst. Myc. v. \.p. 

 77. — A. piperatus, var., Pers. Syn. p. 429. 



Woods. July— Sept. Common.— Pileus broader even than in the last, 

 white, fleshy ; flesh white without milk and not changing colour. Gills 

 distant, white with often a tinge of verdigris, very crisp and brittle some- 

 what forked, \ of an inch broad, connected by veins. Spondes white, 

 round. Stem obtuse, short, thick, surface like that of the pileus. This 

 is not precisely the same plant as A. re/Zc/r^.v, putting out of view the 

 absence of milk, and seems to have as much claim to rank as a species 

 as A. vellereus, differing as nuich from that, as that does from A. jnjiera- 

 ius. The gills are very different ; though as there is a state of A. jnpera- 

 tus very near to A. vellereus as regards the gills, so again looking to the 

 same organ there is a state of ^. vellereus approachuig to A. exsuccus. 



Subgenus 8. Clitocybe; (from xX/ro; asleep or declivity, and 

 jcuiBri a head, pointing to the shape of the pileus when young, in 

 contradistinction to omphalia in which the pileus when young 

 is umbilicate). Veil none. Pileus convex when young, not 

 ^imbilicate ; at length often depressed or infimdibuliforni. Gills 

 unequal, jiiiceless, unchangeable, tough, variously Jixcd or free. 

 Sporules white. 



A. Dasvphylli (from daavg, close, and fuXXov, a leaf.) Pileus 

 dry, smooth. Gills close dccurrent or acutely adnate. 



7S. A. gilcus, Pers. (suJnnvolute Agaric) ; pileus convex 

 obtuse then infundibuliform smooth rigid, gills decurrent from 

 pallid becoming reddish, stem stuffed somewhat rooting shaggy 

 at the base. Pers. Syn. p. 448. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. I. p. 80. 

 Fr. EL \.p. 10— A.' subinvolutus, Batsch, Cont.2.f 204.— .4. 

 sonlidnflacus, With. r. 4. p. 183. — A. cyathiformis, Fl. Dan. 

 t. 1011. 



Under trees in Edgbaston Park. Withering. Aug.— Sept.— " Very 

 distinct as a species from all the forms of A.i!,il>hus:\\u\ A. nrhuluris, and 

 when once seen can be confoiuuled with neither. Its distinguishing 

 marks are, stem stout fleshy ; pileus when s[)ringing up moist, when full 

 grown dry, polished, here and tliere spotted ; flesh compact or brittle 

 not flaccid, reddish like the pileus, not white ; gills very close, oltcn 



