Agaricus.] 



ruNGi. 27 



** Pikus dry. 



60. A, Volemum, Fr. {mild red milky. Agaric); large, sweet, 



pileus obtuse dry tawny becoming pale, gills white changing to 



yellow, stem solid blunt. Fr. SysL Myc. v. I. p. 69. — A. ruber, 



Tratt. Fung. Aust. t. 15. n. 29. Essh. Schwam. t. M.— ^. lacti- 



Jluus, Schceff. t. 5. 



Woods. July — Aug. Inverary. Kloizsch in Hook. Herb. King's 

 Cliffe, ^ovths.— Pileus 4 inches broad, flesh thickish, moderately firm, 

 obtuse, minutely umbonate, though the umbo at length vanishes, sub- 

 depressed, sometimes very faintly zoned, with a few minute wrinkles 

 towards the margin, dry, at length cracked, of a rich orange brown darker 

 in the centre, the whole rather dull thai shining; margin not the least 

 involute, though when young the edge of the pileus is regularly incurved. 

 Milk white, abundant, not acrid, quite mild. Gills pale ochraceous, 

 becoming fuscous on being touched, not very close, scarcely decurrent 

 even in depressed specimens, sometimes slightly forked. Sporulcs white 

 round. Stem 2^—31 inches high, above 1 inch thick, obese, minutely 

 attenuated downwards, sculptured longitudinally, paler than the centre 

 of the pileus : it bears a strong compression without giving way, but it 

 is spongy in the centre ; outer flesh reddish. Schoeffer's figure agrees 

 exactly with Trattinnick's, and is now in the Ind. Alph. allowed to be 

 the same. A. ruber, Pers. has acrid milk. It is pronounced by Trattin- 

 nick to be excellent for food if properly prepared, but very unwholesome 

 if not sufficiently stewed. M. lloques' account, if in the cases he men- 

 tions there was no mistake as to the species, is even more unfovourable. 

 In Dr. Hooker's Herbarium there is a MSS. species of M. Klotzsch, 

 which he states to be intermediate between A. Volemum and A. subdulcis ; 

 not being able to draw up from his notes a satisfactory specific charac- 

 ter, though as far as may be judged from dried specimens it should seem 

 to be really distinct, 1 give its description here.— yl. Smilhii, Klotzsch. 

 Pileus U— 2i inches broad, obsoletely umbonate, then altogether infun- 

 dibuliform, tawny with a shade of fuscous, dry, opaque : margin sulcate 

 tubercled. Gills 2—3 lines broad, dilute, tawny-fuscous or flesh- 

 coloured, adnato-decurrent. Stem 1—2 inches high, 4— C lines thick, 

 spongy, at length more or less hollow, smooth, tawny-rufous turning 

 pale.— In beech woods in mountainous places. Aug.— Oct. Inverary. 

 Rev. Colin Smith. Helensburgh. Mr. Joseph D. Hooker. Near Glas- 

 gow. Klotzsch. 



61. ^. quietus, Fr. {mild rufous Agaric); sweet, pileus obtuse 

 even dry opaque, gills testaceo-rufescent, stem solid firm. Fr, 

 Syst. Myc. v. i. p. G9.—A. ruhcscens, Fl. Dan. t. 1069. /. 2. 

 {Jidc Fries). — A. scrosus, With. v. 4. p. 160. 



Woods. iSept. — Nov. Very conmion. — /^j/<wa- 2 inches or more broad, 

 opaque, rufesccnt,often slightly zoned, at first deep livcr-colourcd, obtuse, 

 at length depressed, smooth, the margin incurved and delicately downy. 

 Fle&h thick, firm ; milk white, but sometimes of a deciiled but pale 

 yellow, the i)lant dithring in no other respect. Gills pale rufesccnt, 

 gradually becoming darker, decurrent,forkcd at thebase, rather numerous, 

 and narrow. Sporulcs white, round. Stem 2 inches long, .} — k an inch 

 thick, thickest u|)wards, of tiic same texture and colour as the pileus ; 

 Jlesh firm, bearing a strong pressure wiliiout breaking ; w hen old less 

 firni, but not hollow. Mild ; odour oily and sometimes like that o( bugs. 



