20 FUNGT. [Jgaricu^. 



V. I. p. 50.—^. hulhosus, Huds. Fl. Ang.j). 611. Bolt. Ul,—A, 



violaceus, Soiv. t. 209 A. nudus. var. 2. With. v. 4. p. 192. 



Pastures. Oct. — Jan. Very common. — Gregarious, frequently in 

 large rings. Pileus 2 — G inches broad, j3eshy, firm, pale bistre or purple- 

 lilac, occasionally violet, convex, obtuse, very smooth and shining as if 

 oiled but not viscid, margin involute, pulverulento-tomentose. Gills 

 rounded, free, not distant, narrow in front, paler than the pileus, some- 

 times violet, turning to a dirty flesh colour, especially when bruised. 

 Stem 1 — 3 inches high, | of an inch thick, firm, bulbous, solid, mottled 

 within towards the apex with watery spots ; clothed more or less with 

 villous fibrillae, tinged with violet. Odour like that of A. Oreades, but 

 rather overpowering, taste pleasant. This species has been confounded, 

 by both Purton and Greville, with the true A. inolaceiis ; but in a MSS. 

 of the former now before me it is rightly distinguished. Sold, accord- 

 ing to Sowerby, in Covent Garden market under the name of Blewitts. 



40. A. 7iudus^ Bull, {naked violet Agaric) ; gregarious, pileus 

 thin smooth lilac changing to rufous, gills rounded pale violet, 

 stem solid equal naked. Bull. t. 439. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 1. 

 7?. 52. 



Gardens, woods, and pastures. Sept. — Oct. Oundle, Woodnewton. 

 Northamptonshire. Rev. M. J. Berkeley. — PUeiis about 2 inches broad, 

 thin, obtuse, plane or subdepressed at first amethyst-coloured, but 

 changing to a pinky rufous ; margin involute. Gills of the same colour 

 as the pileus, rounded behind though sometimes decurrenti-adnate, con- 

 nected and traversed by veins. Stem 2 inches high, 3 — 4 lines thick,, 

 stuffed with spongy fibres, subequal, at first fibrillose, at length nearly 

 smooth, more or less of the colour of the pileus. 



41. A. bldfidus, Berk, (ptdverulent dore-coloured Agaric) ; 

 pileus thin pulverulent grey-lilac, gills broad rounded behind 

 and nearly free pure white, stem slender subfibrilloso-rimose 

 subbulbous, the base brown. 



Plantations and road-sides. Sept. — Oct. Milton, Norths. Mr. ,/, 

 Henderson. Stibbington, Hunts. King's Cliife, Norths., &c. Rev. M. J. 

 Berkeley. — PUeiis 2^ inches broad, plano-convex, umbonate, very mi- 

 nutely pulverulento-tomentose, so that when touched the impression of 

 the fingers remains upon it, not brittle, moderately fleshy, dry, the mar- 

 gin sometimes undulate, grey-lilac with a tinge of brown on the umbo. 

 In young specimens the pileus is sometimes of a browner cast, the edge 

 white and minutely downy, but the pulverulent appearance scarcely 

 discernible. Gills broad, rounded behind and nearly free, white, their 

 margin undulate, brittle, becoming rather brown at the edge as they dry. 

 Sporules white, round. Stem 2 inches high, 2 lines thick, (f of an inch 

 at the base) subbulbous and brownish at the base, the brown colour 

 penetrating the flesh to the centre ; solid, rather brittle, composed of 

 fibres, pulverulento-squamulose at the apex, subfibrilloso-rimose below, 

 with a little down at the base. — I cannot find any species at all agree- 

 ing with this well-marked and elegant Agaric. The gills have not the 

 slightest tinge of violet, nor is the habit that of y/. nudus. Indeed, were 

 it not for the subbulbous stem and nearly free gills, I should have placed 

 it in the division Thrausti of Clitocybe. 



Subgenus 6. Russula ; (a name formed by Scopoli from rifs- 



