,30 FUNGI. [Agaricus. 



hollow cinereous. Bull, L 529. f, i. Pers. >Si/?i. p. 436. Fr, 

 Syst. Myc. V. l./>. 74. Roques, Hist, des Champ, t. 13./. 5. 



Woods and meadows amongst grass. Eaglesham, Scot!. Klotzsch^ 

 in Hook. Herb. King's Cliffe, Norths. Aug. — " Pdeiis 2—3 inches 

 broad, firm but thinner than the following species; at length dirty- 

 yellowish ; in shady places almost zoneless. Milk abundant, extremely 

 acrid. Stem H inch long, 3 — 5 lines thick, stuffed, soon hollow, often 

 attenuated, smooth or scrobiculate." Fr. I. c. 



69. A. JiexudsKS, Pers. (icoody-zoned Agaric); compact, edge 

 of pileiis turned down dry smooth, gills distant pale, stem 

 solid short. Fr. Syst. 3Iyc. v. I. p. 74. — a. pileus nmher. — A, 

 azonites, Bull. t. 559./. 1. — A. umbrinns^ Pers. Syn. p. 433. — 

 b. pileus ruddy-yellow. Fungus lignosus, S^c. VailL Bot. Par. p. 

 61. t. 12. f. 7. / — A. zonarius, Bull. t. 104. — A.flexuosus, Pers. 

 Syn. p. 430. 



Pastures amongst bushes. July — Oct. Hamilton, Scotland. Klotzsch, 

 in Hook. Herb. — Cotterstock, Tansor, Norths. Rev. M. J. Berkeley, 

 (b.) — Caespitose or solitary. Pileus 4 inches or more broad, crisped, and 

 waved, infundibuliform, zoned, more or less rufescenti-ochraceous, viscid 

 when moist, fleshy, milk white very acrid. Jfargin almost smooth, very 

 slightly involute; flesh zoned. Gills nearly of the same colour, very 

 much forked and anastomosing^ below from the intermediate veins. 

 Stem short and thick, blunt, white and very minutely downy, occasionally 

 quite smooth, firm and solid. Sometimes very much deformed and 

 scarcely rising above the soil ; very harsh and woody. My specimens, 

 though certainly belonging to A. flexiiosns, have the pileus viscid when 

 moist. The sporules I find decidedly ochraceous, as also in A. pyro- 

 galus. 



70. A. piperdtus, Scop. (Pepper Agaric) ; pileus infundibuli- 

 form rigid smooth white, gills very narrow close, milk and the 

 solid blunt stem white. Scop. p. 449. Bolt. t.2\. pers. Syn. 

 p. 429. Fr. Syst. Myc. v, 1. p. 76. Grev. Fl. Ed. p. 375. 

 Roques, Hist, des Champ, t. 13./. 1. — 2 — A. amarus, Schceff. t. 

 83. — A. Listeri. var. 1. With. v. 4. p. 153. Purt. v. 2. p. 624. 

 S^ 3. p. 394. 



Woods. Not quite so common as the next. July — Aug. — Pileus 

 3 — 7 inches broad, slightly rugulose, quite smooth, white, a little 

 clouded with yellow or stained with umber where scratched or bruised, 

 convex more or less depressed, often quite infundibuliform more or less 

 waved, fleshy, thick, firm, but brittle ; margin involute at first ; some- 

 times excentric. 3Iilk white, hot. Gills generally very narrow, ^V of 

 an inch broad, but sometimes much broader, cream-coloured, repeatedly 

 dichotomous, very close " like the teeth of an ivory comb," decurrent 

 from the shape of the pileus, when bruised changing to umber. Stem 

 1—3 inches high, 1^ — 2 inches thick, often compressed, minutely 

 pruinose, solid but spongy within, the substance breaking up into trans- 

 verse cavities. Specimens occur, exactly similar in habit to A. parga- 

 menus. Though very acrid when raw, it loses its bad qualities entirely 

 by cooking and is extensively used on the continent, prepared in various 

 ways. It is preserved for winter-use by drying or pickling in a mixture 

 of salt and vinegar. 



