Af/ancus.] FUNGI. 23 



stufltd, moderately firm, white. FUeus when young plane, the margin 

 deflexed, then subinfnndibuliform, green." Fr. i. c. Taste acrid in my 

 specimens,— bitteribli. I'ers. — subnauseous. Fr. Ruqucs, 



49. A. viresci7is, Pers. (jnild forhed-gilled Agaric); mild, 

 pileus nearly plane, margin even, gills forked and dimidiate 

 white. Per^. Sf/n. p. 447. Tratt. Fang. Aust. <. 11. ?/. 21. 

 Fr. Syst.3Iyc.v. 1.;?. 59. Roqiies, Hist, des Chanrp. t. i2.f. 3, 

 4. — A.farcatus, vur. heterophyllus, Fr. Syst. Myc. v. I. p. 59. 



Woods. Not uncommon. Jtily — Sept. Scotland, Kloizsch in Hook. 

 Herb. Kensington gardens. \Vansford, Norths. Rev. M. J. Berke- 

 ley. — Pileus 4 inches broad, convex, at length slightly depressed and 

 irregular, of various livid hues, yellow, purple and green, fleshy, rugulose, 

 very slightly viscid, margin even. The edge of the pileus sometimes 

 hangs down in a singular manner. The texture is altogether vesicnlose, 

 cpnsisting of roundish cells. Gills white, forked, sometimes anastomo- 

 sing at the base, rather close, moderately rigid, elastic. Sporides round, 

 white. Stem 1 — 2 inches high, ^ an inch or more thick, obtnse at the 

 base, various in form, slightly reticulated with raised lines. Taste 

 and odour mild.— Excellent for food according to M. Roques and 

 eaten under the nam.e of " verdelte,^' but requires to be carefully distin- 

 guished from the foregoing and other acrid Rn.vuilcc. Trattinick's figure 

 belongs apparently to this, his description evidently embraces this and 

 A. furcatus. 



50. A. adiisfKs, Pers. (scorc/ied Agaric) ; pileus depressed 

 changing to black as if scorched, margin oven, gills unequal 

 distant white, stem solid blunt. Peis. Syn. p. 459. Fr. Syst. 

 Myc. V. \. p. GO. Pers. Myc. Eur. v. 3. p. 207. — A. rtigricansy 

 Bull. t.2\2. 



Woods. Sept. — Oct. Conmion. — Pileus 2^ — 3^ inches broad, white, 

 smooth or clothed with a very minute pubescence or meal, which, when 

 touched, turns black, plauo-d-pressed, at length infundibuliform, flesh 

 thick, firm, crisp, turning red when cut ; when old the whole plant is 

 black and remains in that state for a long time. Margin not involute. 

 Gills narrow, pale yellowish, thick, distant, forked, decurrciit. Sporules 

 white, round. Stem .3 inches high, nearly 1 inch thick, siihincrassated 

 below, very obtuse ; substance and surface like that of the pileus. In 

 a specimen with a cinereous-olive pileus, broken into areola?, the gills 

 were nearly free. 



/3. eJephantinus ; pileus yellowish-brown ; gills yellowish- 

 white ; stem solid white. Soiu. t. SG. Part. v. 3. p, 203. — A, 

 adustiis, var. elej)hanlinns, Grev. Fl. Fd. p. 373. 



Woods and shady ()laces. — P^Yc-w* large, inelegant, 4 — 7 inches broad, 

 rather pale when young and glutinous becoming yellowish dingy brown 

 and cracking, at length blackish as if it had l)een exposed to fire. Stem 

 2 — 3 inehes high, 2 inches thick, dirty white." Grev. I. c. 



Subgenus 7. Galoruheus; (fvomyaXu, wil/i,iiiH\ ^iu), tojloir). 

 Veil none. Stem naked , Jinny suhcrp/(d, dijf'used into the pileus. 

 Pileus fleshy, firm, phi no-depressed, umbilicate, margin cv(n, when 

 young involute. (nils vncfpudy often forked, lutrroWy attenuated 



