24 FUNGI. [Agaricus. 



behind, adnato-decurrent. The whole plant ahoiinding with a i milhy 

 juice. Asci small. Sporules white, yellow in A. fiiliginosus. Large 

 or middle-sized persistent frequently acrid Fungi growing on the 

 ground, 



* Pileus more or less viscid. 



51. A. torminosus, Schceff. (bearded pepper Agaric) ; pileus 

 smooth zoned pale, margin sliaggy, stem hollow even. Schceff. 

 t. 12. Sow. t. 103. Purt v. S.p. 397. (quoad syn. Bull.) Fr. 

 Syst. 3Iyc. v. 1. p. 63. Grev. Fl. Ed. p. 373.— J. piperatus, 

 Linn. Suec. 1 195. With. v. 4. p. 164.—^. Necator, Bull. t. 529. 

 /. 2. With. V. 4. p. 168. Boques, Hist, des Champ, t. 13./. 3, 4. 



Klotzsch, Fung. Germ, exs. n. 5. 



Woods, especially of fir, heaths, thickets, borders of fields, &c. June — 

 Oct. Local. Dundas Hill near Edinburgh. Dr. GrevUle. Cliftou. 

 Lambley, Notts. Laxton, Norths. Rev. M. J. Berkeley. N. Wales, 

 W. Wihon, Esq. — Pileus 2 — 5 inches broad, smooth or nearly so, except the 

 involute margin which is most copiously shaggy ; depressed, more or less 

 zoned, of a beautiful ochre or (sometimes) strawberry colour, at first 

 viscid. Milk white, very acrid, not changeable. Gills rather narrow, 

 nearly of the same colour as the pileus, but yellower and paler, slightly 

 forked. Stem 1 ^ — 2 inches long, ^ an inch thick, sometimes shining, 

 obtuse, paler than the pileus, at length hollow, clothed with a minute 

 depressed down. Very acrid ; but the Russians preserve it in salt and 

 eat it seasoned with oil and vinegar. See Rogues, Hist, des Champ, 

 p. 88. 



52. A. cilicioides, Fr. (downy milhy Agaric) ; pileus tomen- 

 tose, dingy pale reddish or salmon-colour, gills yellowish, stem 

 robust partly hollow. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. \. p. 63. Grev. Fl. 

 Ed. p. 373. JoJmst. Fl. Bcrw. v. 2. p. 165. — A. Necator, var. 2. 



With. V. 4.]). 168. 



In woods or in grassy places under large trees. Autumn. Under 

 large Spanish Chestnut trees in Edgbaston Park. WitJiering. Braid Her- 

 mitage near Edinburgh. Grev. Near Berwick. Johnston. — ''Pileus 2 — 4 

 inches broad, depressed, margin rounded, involute, reddish-buff", some- 

 times glutinous, very downy, becoming fibrillose at the margin. Gills 

 yellowish, irregular and often branching, apparently decurrent from the 

 expansion of the stipes into the substance of the pileus. Flesh yellow- 

 ish-white, darker towards the surface. Stem about 2 inches high, nearly 

 1 inch thick, dingy white, yellow or brown. There is no juice, but a 

 considerable moisture on the surface of the pileus which seems to 

 originate from the plant." Grev. I. c. 



53. A. Necator, Bull, (deadly milky Agaric); pileus smooth 

 zoned olivaceous-umber, margin shaggy, stem stuffed. Bull. t. 

 14. — A. torminosus, Purt. v. 3. />. 396 (quoad Sy?i. Bidl). 



' In A. Volemum I have seen particles in the milk moving nbout in every 

 direction with immense rapidity, exactly like those observable in Gamboge 

 mixed with water. Sometimes specimens of various species occur entirely 

 destitute of milky juice, and at other times the juice is watery. 



