14 FUNGI. [Agarictis, 



gin which is turned in, white, minutely downy, sometimes slightly grooved 

 or striate. Gills adnate, scarcely decurrent, white, in decay greenish 

 yellow, sometimes ventricose, veiny. Sporules white, elliptic, with a 

 distinct border. Stem H — ^h inches high, \ — ^ an inch thick, generally 

 curved, fibrous within, above granulato-fibrillose, pitted, covered with 

 milky drops as in Boletus gmnulatiis. Ring in general indistinct, 

 though sometimes the margin of the viscid veil which clothes the rest 

 of the stem marking it with irregular dark blotches, is visible ; the base 

 of the stem yellow. 



25. A. hypothejus, Yv. (yelloio slimy Agaric); pileus obtuse 

 smooth dirty yellow covered with olive slime, gills distinct 

 yellow as well as the somewhat spotted stem. Fr. Syst. Myc, 

 V. I. p. 35. — A. limacinus, Sow. t. 8. Piirt. v. 3. p. 209. — A, 

 citrijius, With, v, 4. p. 195.^ — A. vitellinus, Alb. 8^ Schw. p. 179, 

 t. 10./. 3. 



Fir groves (principally, perhaps, where the soil is sandy). Oct. 

 Local. — Pileus 1 — 4 inches broad, fleshy, at first conic obtuse, at length 

 expanded and depressed round the umbo or even infundibuliform, 

 covered with a thick dark gluten ; yellow towards the margin and 

 beneath the gluten ; the extreme margin turned in. Flesh yellow, 

 deeper towards the margin. Gills adnato-decurrent, yellow, sometimes 

 varying to a flesh-coloured tint, distinct, distant. Stem H — 3 inches 

 high, 2 — 9 lines thick, flexuous, stuffed above, fibrillose, below slimy, 

 submaculate, yellow. Odour fungoid, rather disagreeable. 



26. A. aromdficus, Sow. {aromatic Agaric); pileus smooth 

 cinnamon, gills decurrent when young, rufescent as well as the 

 hollow stem. Sow. t. 144. Pers. Syn. p. 306. Fr. Syst. 

 Myc. V. I. p. 33. 



Walthamstow. Mr. B. M. Forster. — Pileus 2 — '6^ inches broad, 

 fleshy, generally covered with a thick glutinous skin which becomes 

 corrugated in drying, cinnamon, blackish like the rest of the plant when 

 bruised. Gills pinkish. Stem H — 3 inches long, 3 — 5 lines thick, 

 hollow and pithy. " Whole plant when fresh so tender that it is diffi- 

 cult to gather. Odour agreeable spicy. Taste watery with a pepper- 

 mint-like coolness in the mouth and a lasting roughness in the throat." 

 Sow. I. c. The above account is compiled from Sowerby. The stem 

 in the figure appears to be rather reticulated than spotted as Fries 

 supposes; and stuffed rather than truly hollow. The account of the 

 gills in the advanced stage is rather at variance with the figure, in which 

 they are adnate, the decurrent appearance being altered by the growth 

 of the pileus. In my copy the gills appear much darker than they 

 probably are in reality, owing to the colourer having used some pre- 

 paration of lead. In the section they are represented scarcely of a 

 darker pink than that which is assumed sometimes by the gills of ^4. 

 hypothejus. 



Subgenus 5. Tricholoma ; (from ^^/g a hair, and >,w,aa a 

 fringe.) Veil partial, Jibrillose or floccose, very fugacious. Stein 

 fleshy, firm, subattenuated upwards, not even, but scaly, fibrillose, 

 or striate with innate fibrillce. Pileus fleshy, sometimes compact 

 liemisphericaly then expanded obtuse ; sometimes thi?i7ier, cam. 



