Hi FUNGI. [Ayariciis. 



evidently are Fries' var. b. There is little doubt that Sowerby's A. com- 

 pactus is the same, though rather more robust and the stem more 

 strongly marked. He describes it as rather viscid, white, and blush- 

 coloured within. The gills pale buft^ with a blush shade more or less 

 conspicuous. Pileus white within. Fries, however, in his Ind. alph. 

 p. 14. considers it his A. virgatus. 



29. A./ucdtus, Fr. (^stained Agaric); pileus flexuous streaked 

 slimy lurid, gills emarginate yellowish-white as well as the 

 subsqiiamulose stem. Fr, Syst. 3Iyc. v. \. p. 40. Pers. Myc, 

 Etir.v. S.p. 182. 



Open grassy places in woods. Autumn. King's Cliffe, Northampton- 

 shire. Bev. M. J. Berkeley. Oct. — Pileus slightly viscid, flesh thick in the 

 centre, the margin thin,yellowish with cinereous fibrillae,subrimulose,with 

 a satiny lustre. Gills broad, emarginate, slightly wavy, moderately thick, 

 not distant, scarcely connected by veins, with a very slight tinge of yel- 

 low. Stem tinged with yellow, as is the outer flesh, punctato-squamu- 

 lose, bulbous, attenuated upwards. Odour like that of new flour. — Dif- 

 fers from the following in being decidedly viscid. The stem is more 

 shortly bulbous, not apt to become elongated or flexuous, more decidedly 

 squamulose and with the gills of a yellowish tinge. The gills of both 

 are broad in my specimens. Persoon in his specific character of _4. luri- 

 dus, calls them narrow, but mentions likewise a state with whitish, broad 

 gills. I find no difference in odour. 



30. A, luridiis, SclicefF. (Jiirid Agaric) ; pileus flexu- 

 ous not viscid, gills emarginate, stem solid subsquamulose. 

 Sc'hceff. L 69. Pers. Sijn. p. 321. 3Iyc, Eur. v. 3. p. 181. 

 Fr. Syst. Myc. v. I. p. 40. 



Grassy paths in woods. Sept. — Oct. Cotterstock, Northamptonshire. 

 Rev, M. J.Berkeley. — Subgregarious. Pileus 3 inches broad, at first con- 

 vex, then expanded, often lobed and waved, brown or greyish with tints 

 of yellow, subumbonate, fibrilloso-striate, fleshy, flesh firm. Gills 

 broad, thick, rounded behind, nearly free, but adnexed by a small tooth, 

 connected by veins much broken, or notched. Stem 2 — 4 inches long, 

 3 — 3 lines thick, obese, nearly equal, or slightly attenuated, solid, mi- 

 nutely and closely fibrillose, pulverulento-squamulose above where it is 

 yellowish, undulated, sometimes but not constantly of a beautiful red 

 when bruised. Odour like that of new flour. — Persoon describes it as 

 varying with a pileus quite smooth and almost shining, or minutely 

 squamulose, the squamulae black or of the same colour with the pileus. 

 Gills yellowish or dirty white, narrow or broad. Stem straight or in- 

 curved and flexuous. Repeated observations will probably convince 

 us of the necessity of uniting this and the foregoing species. 



** Pileus always dry. 



31. A.pachyphyllus, Berk, (thick-gilled Agaric); pileus fleshy- 

 waved minutely adpresso-squamulose umbonate ochraceous, 

 the disc umber, gills thick moderately distant nearly free, stem 

 solid nearly equal pruinose. 



Fir plantation among fir leaves. Winkbourn, Notts. Oct. 15, 183.3. 

 — Gregarious, subcaespitose. Pileus 2 — 4 inches broad, rather wavy, 

 umbonate, at length often depressed, ochraceous, shaded towards the 



