Ayaricus:\ FUNGI. 



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panulale when young ; margin thin, when young injiexed con- 

 tiguous loith the veil. Gilts unequal, juiceless, obtuse behind, 

 emarginate or rounded. — Rather large Fungi, persistent, solitary 

 or gregarious, growing on the ground ; many of them esculent 

 ivith an agreeable flavour ; others bitter. 



* Pileus slimy when moist. 



27. A. albo-brunneus, Pers. (white and brown Agaric); 

 pileus smooth slimy umber, gills white with a decurrent 

 tooth, stem stuffed. Pers. Syn. p. 293. Myc. Eur. v. 3. 

 p, 193. Fr.Syst.Myc. v. I. p. 37. — A. striatus, Schceff. t. 38 — 

 A. glutinosus. Bull. t. 258, 539, 587. /. 2 — A. viscosus, Purt. 

 V. 3. p. 208. 



In clusters on the ground and on stumps thickly covered with 

 mould. Nov. Iron-cross, near Evesham, and Fairtree near Bridg- 

 north. Purton. — " Caespitose. Pileus 3 inches broad, convex, flattish, 

 very glutinous, dirty white, changing to a ferruginous tint. Gills white 

 or brown, very broad and slightly angular near the stem. Stem 3 inches 

 high, ^ an inch thick, generally swollen near the middle, attenuated 

 above and below, towards the base highly ferruginous. When young 

 covered with a kind of shaggy wool, which disappears in the perfect 

 plant. Remarkably glutinous, so that the leaves and sticks which are 

 in contact with it can scarcely be separated from the pileus without 

 tearing it." BuUiard describes his plant as having no unpleasant taste 

 nor smell ; and Fries in his Obs. Myc, confirms this, and suspects 

 that it may be eatable. Persoon, on the contrary, who describes four 

 states, pronounces all more or less bitter and acrid. The pileus ap- 

 pears when grown to be constantly smooth ; but the stem though 

 occasionally smooth appears generally to have the apex pale and 

 squamulose, and the lower part of the stem more or less marked with 

 transverse scales. 



28. A.fulvus, Retz, {tawny Agaric) ; pileus slimy streaked 

 with small fibrillous scales rufous-tawny, gills adnexed yellow, 

 stem hollow equal fibrillose. Bull. t. 555. /. 2. 574. /. 1. 

 Dec. Fl. Fr. V. 2. p. 186. Fr. Syst. Mijc. v. 1. j). 37 — A. 

 incertus, Schceff. t. Q>±-.b. gills pallid, Retz, V. A. II. 17G9. 

 p. 'il'l. {fide Fr.) — A. compactus, Sow. Sapp. ^ 416. 



Var.b. Grassnndertrees,andridings ofwoods. Sept. Keynston, Dors. 

 Miss Rackctl. Fineshade, King's Clitle, Northamptonshire, llcv. ]\f. J. 

 Berkeley. — PUeus 3 inches or more broad, when young conico-hemi- 

 spherical, the margin involute and minutely tomentose, when old ex- 

 panded, discoid, broadly umbonatc, fleshy, very slimy when moist, when 

 dry most minutely aclpresso-s(|uamulose of a beautiful deep red-i)rown, 

 the margin paler and slightly tubercled, the tul)ercles not round but 

 long and simple. 6'///.v pale, a dilute shade of the pileus, somewhat 

 undulated, rounded behind, nearly free (in Sowerby's fig. adnexo- 

 decurrent) ; when wounded by insects red-brown. Sponihs white, 

 round. Stem 21 inches high, nearly \ an inch thiik, rather thickest at 

 the base, curved, rufescent below, nearly white above, subfibrillosc or 

 subs(|uamulose below, fibrilloso-glandidose al)ove, at first solid, then 

 more or less hollow. Odour like that of fresh meal.— My specimens agree 

 more ncarlv with Bull t. 555. /. 2, than with the other figure, but they 



