Ayaricus.] r U N G 1 . 13 



Odour pleasant, exactly like that oV the leaves of Pntnus Lauro-cerasus. 

 A. eruhescens seems to be the nearest to this species which is remark- 

 able lor its pleasant smell of" bitter almonds. It is a very neat-looking 

 Agaric, and an undoubted Liviacmm. 



22. A. eburneiis, Bull. (Ivory Agaric); white, smell not un- 

 pleasant, pileus smooth, gills broad, stem stuffed squamulose. 

 Bull, t, 1 18. 551. / 2. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 1. p. 33. Grev. Ft. 

 Ed. p. 371 (m part). Pers. Syn. p. 264. Roques, Hist, des 

 Champ, p. 107. — A. nitens, Soiv. t. 71. With. v. 4. p. 150. 



Woods. Oct. — Nov. Not common. Nork Park. Lady Arden. 

 Packington, Warw. Withering. — ^^ Pileus 2 — 3 inches broad, shining 

 when dry. Stem at length hollow, very various in stature, flexuous in 

 elongated specimens." Fr. I. c. — Inodorous, according to Bulliard ; of 

 a faint pleasant odour, according to Sowerby ; and, according to Roques, 

 not disagreeable, eaten in Italy under the name of jozzolo. — Fries 

 seems to have been somewhat puzzled with A. Cossus, Sow., and in his 

 " Elenchus" says that it has the habit of ^. incmcenus, but differs from 

 it in having a slimy pileus. Having found the plant, I am enabled to 

 vouch for the accuracy of Sowerby's figure and descri[)tion, and further, 

 to state positively that it belongs to the tribe Limacium, appearing to 

 differ principally from A. eburneus in its peculiar odour. The best course 

 at present will be to keep A. Cossus distinct, till it shall be ascertained 

 whether A. eburneus is constantly mild-scented. — Purton has by some 

 mischance misunderstood A. eburneus ^A. Virgineus ; Fries will cer- 

 tainly be found to be correct, if attention be paid to the characters 

 which bring them under two distinct subgenera. Greville united the two 

 in his Flora Edinensis, but in the Scottish Cryptogamic Flora he has 

 properly separated them. 



23. A. Cossus, Sow. (Goat-Moth Agaric); fcetid, white, 

 smootli, gills broad, stem stuffed glanduloso-punctate above, 

 clothed below with a matted down. Sow. t. 121. 



Woods. Oct. Peckham Wood, Surrey. Soiverby. King's Cliffe, 

 Northamptonshire. Rev. M. J. Berkeley. — Pileus H inch broad, pure 

 white, slimy (slime consisting of round and oval bodies under a high 

 magnifier), shining when dry, stained here and there with yellowish ; 

 the disk sometimes subochraceous. Gills broad, thick, distant, adnato- 

 decurrent, connected by veins and themselves slightly veined. Spondes 

 white, elliptic. Stem i-^- inches high, 1 — 3 lines thick, nearly equal, 

 here and there yellow when bruised. Smell like that of the Larva of 

 the Goat-Moth, or a damp meadow, and remaining for a long time on 

 the fingers after touching it. 



** Stem spotted. 



24. A. olivdceo-albiis, Fr. (olive and white Agaric) ; pileus 

 umbonate smooth olive-brown, gills connected white, stem 

 solid spotted witli brown. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 1. p. 34. — A. 

 limacinusy Schujf. t. 312. 



Under trees and in bushy ground. Sept. — Oct. Laxton Park. Wo- 

 thorpc, Nortli:im|)tonshirc. Rev. M. J. Rcrhtlcy. — Pileus 2 — 3 inchrs 

 broad, at first conic, then expanded and broadly umbonate, livid olive- 

 brown, varied with tints of yellow and unil)er, very viscid (the slime com- 

 posed of flexuous filaments under a high magnifier), flesh thin on the mar- 



