A^aricus.] FUNGI. 17 



centre with umber, minutely squamulose, sometimes in large old speci- 

 mens the epidermis cracks in broad scales, but then these are clothed 

 with the smaller ones ; flesh ver}' firm. Gills slightly adnexed or nearly 

 free, acute behind, moderately distant, thick, fleshy, having somewhat 

 the appearance of those of Dcedalea hetidina, acquiring at length an 

 ochraceous hue, here and there stained with umber. Sporules white. 

 Stem \\ — 2 inches long, | of an inch thick, solid, nearly equal, pruinose, 

 much paler than the pileus. Odour rather strong. It does not appear 

 to be viscid in any state, my specimens being quite dry though 

 gathered in very rainy weather. 



32. A. rutilans, SchcefF. (crimson-red downy Agaric) ; pileus 

 obtuse dry yellow covered with crimson-red scaly down, gills 

 close yellow rounded, stem subsolid variegated. Schceff. t. 

 219. Pers. Syn. p. 320. Fr. Sijst. Myc.v. l.;j>. 41. Grev, 

 Fl. Ed. p. 371. Klotzsch, Fung. Germ. exs. n. 4. — A. xeram- 

 pelinus, Soiv. t. 31. With. v. 4. p. 197. Purt. v. S.p. 210. — 

 A. serratis, Bolt. t. 14. 



Woods, on stumps, especially of fir. Sept. — Oct. Not unconmion. 

 — Subcasspitose. Pileus 2 — 4 inches broad, at first hemispherical or 

 somewhat cylindrical, at length expanded, obtuse, more rarely plane ; 

 clothed with a short dense crimson-red, or olive-purple down ; margin 

 involute, white ; as the pileus expands the yellow epidermis becomes 

 visible in the interstices of the down which is then- scattered. Gills 

 free, broad, rounded behind, but often when old adnexed, sometimes 

 forked, bright yellow, floccoso-serrate ; margin turning sometimes to a 

 rich yellow-brown. Stem 2^ — 3^ inches high, ^ — 1 inch thick, downy 

 like the pileus, only the down is shorter, very obtuse at the base, atten- 

 uated upwards, solid at first, afterwards occasionally hollow. Odour 

 strong, disagreeable ; taste bitter, nauseous. 



33. A. imhricdtus, Fr. (large brown Agaric) ; pileus dry 

 squamulose umber-rufous, margin paler pubescent, gills dirty 

 wiiite with a ruddy tint, stem stuffed pale and pulverulent at 

 the apex. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 1 . p. 42. 



In fir plantations. Sept.— Oct. Beeston, Notts. 1832, 1833. On a 

 sandy soil. — (iregarious. Pileus 2 — 3^ inches broad, dry, obtuse, at 

 first subconic, then convex, expanded, sometimes plane, very broadly 

 umbonate, fleshy, rich red-brown, fibrilloso-squamulose, rimulose, the 

 umbo darker with the fibrillas closer; occasionally the pileus is scarcely 

 .s(juamulose but clothed with ad|)ressed silky fibrilke. Margin involute, 

 paler, tonientose. Gills slightly rounded behind, subadnate, with a 

 minute tooth, or nearly fi'ee, umber when bruised, not very broad. 

 Sporules round, white. Stem 2^ — 4 inches high ; h — '^ of an inch 

 thick, firm, stnfted, at length more or less hollow ; sometimes strongly 

 attenuated, but in the same groupe incrassated at the base, fibrillose, of 

 the colour of the pileus, nearly white above, where it is s(|namulose or 

 pubesccnti-s(|uamulose. There is no trace of a ring in any stage of 

 growth. Odour and taste scarcely any. Habit somewhat like that <>l" 

 Boletus scuber. 



34. A. vacciuus, Scha»ff. (scaly brown Agaric); pileu;^ umbo- 

 nate rufous, epidermis torn into hairy scales, margin tonientose, 



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