18 FUNGI. [Aijaricioi. 



gills fixed dirty white with a ruddy tinge, stem hollow 

 fibrillose. Schceff. t. 25. Pers. Syn. p. 293. With. v. 4. p, 

 185. Fr. Sijsi. Myc. v. 1. p. 42. Pers. Myc. Eur. v. 3. p. 

 184. — A. impubery Batsch, Cont. 1. /. 116. — A. rufus, Pers. Ic. 

 et Descr.p. 6. t. 2./. 1 — 4. 



Fir woods. Sept. — Oct. Edgbaston. Withering. Kinnordy, Scot- 

 land. Klotzsch, in Hook. Herb.—" Pileus 1—2 inches broad, when 

 young campanulate, clothed with scales, those in the centre thick, broad, 

 short^on the margin consisting of fasciculate hairs. Gills rather broad, 

 emarginate, nearly free, at first dirty white, in age of a rufous hue, the 

 margin generally stained with rusty spots. Stem 3—4 inches high, ^ 

 an inch thick, beset with hairy scales which mostly point upwards, paler 

 than the pileus, whitish above ; base clothed with white down. Veil 

 fugacious. Taste bitter." Pers. Ic. et Desc. I. c— Fries describes 

 this species as smaller, less firm, thinner, the gills more adnate and dis- 

 tant than in the last. Klotzsch's specimens, which are almost smooth, 

 if he is correct in referring them to A. vaccinus, would go far, if we may 

 judge from the dried plant, to show the propriety of uniting them. 

 Persoon in his 3Iyc. Eur. does not admit A. imbricatus to the rank of 

 a species. 



35. A. multiformis, Schceff. (cinereous dotv?iy Agaric); pileus 

 mouse-grey thin obtuse clothed with matted down more or 

 less raised into minute scales, stem white stuffed fibrillose, 

 Schopff. t. 14. — A. lividus, Huds. Fl. Aug. p. Q>\Q. — A. terreiis, 

 Sow. t. 76. rar. 4. With. v. 4. p. 176. — A. madreporius, Batsch, 

 Cont. 2. /. 203. — A. myomyces, var. madreporius, Pers. Myc. 

 Eur. V. 3. p. 202. 



Fir plantations. Sept.— Oct. Very common. Gregarious, often in 

 large rings. Pileus 1 — 2^ inches broad, when young conic with a deli- 

 cate arachnoid veil, then obtuse expanded, quite plane, variously waved, 

 sometimes minutely umbonate, thin, mouse-grey, or very dark cinereous 

 approaching to blue, clothed with flat and matted down, with sometimes 

 a few depressed or raised squamulae of the same colour ; margin in- 

 flexed ; flesh cinereous. Gills rather distant, broad, the margin wavy 

 more or less rounded behind and attached by a tooth, more or less cin- 

 ereous especially when young, sometimes almost violet ; traversed by 

 a few indistinct connecting veins. Spondes white. Stem 1 — 3 inches 

 high, i— i an inch thick, stuffed, at length hollovv, beautifully 

 fibrilloso-sericeous, sometimes a little pulverulent, white, the base 

 occasionally subnifescent ; sometimes short and obtuse and sometimes 

 subattenuated. Pileus and stem very brittle. No particular taste or 



odour. There appear to be two distinct species included under A. 



myonnjces by authors, and that of Fries is probably a third. A. midti- 

 formis, Schceff. appears to be one, and A. argijracens. Bull, the other. 

 The two frequently grow together in fir plantations, but the latter is by 

 no means confined" to them, and while the one is almost void of taste or 

 scent, the other has decidedly a smell like that of new flour, varying 

 occasionally to the peculiar fungoid smell of Polyporus squamosus. 



36. A. argyrdceu^. Bull, (brown-scaled Agaric); pileus dry 

 firm tufted with dark hairs, gills emarginate rather distant dirty 

 white, stem solid unequal. Bull. t. 156, 513./. "^..—A.terreus, 



