12 FUNGI. [Agariciis. 



adnato-decurrent, stem fibrillose, ring tumid patent. Fl. Dan. 

 L 1010. Bolt, t, U\. Ft. Sysl, Myc. «;. 1. p. 30. Grev. Fl. 

 Fid. p. 379. Sc. Crijp. Fl. t. 332. Klotzsch, Fang. Germ. 

 Exs. n. 2. — A. annularis. Bull. t. 370. 540. /, 3. — A. fusco- 

 jyallidus, Bolt. t. 138. — A. congregatus, t. 140. — A. laricinus, 

 t. 14. With. V. 4. p. 179. — A. elasticus, Bolt. t. 16. — A. stipitis, 

 Sow. t. 101. With. V. A. p. 178. Purt. v. 2 (^ 3. n. 920. 



Near or upon old stumps. Sept. — Oct. Common. — Densely tufted. 

 Pileus 2 — 7 inches broad, fleshy, at first convex, then piano-expanded, 

 often subumbonate, and variously lobecl, dirty yellow, brownish-yellow^ 

 or reddish, rough with reflexed scales, especially towards the centre, 

 which are first of a bright wax-yellow, but at length become dark 

 brown ; margin slightly striate ; flesh firm, consisting of fibres. Gills 

 distant adnato-decurrent, at first pale, at length reddish, mealy with the 

 white sporules. Stem 2 — 8 inches high, swollen at the base, thinnest 

 in the middle, fibrillose with a slight yellow pubescence at the base, 

 yellowish or reddish, occasionally somewhat scaly near the apex ; when 

 old often assuming various tints of blue, cinereous, &c., firm and elastic, 

 solid ; n«g large, yellow, tumid, spreading. In the young state, the stem 

 is nearly white from the fibres of the veil, which, as they become 

 separated, display the subjacent tints, and render the stem fibrillose. 

 Odour agreeable ; taste like that of A. campestris, with a slight degree 

 of acidity and somewhat acrid. — Notwithstanding Trattinnick's assertion 

 of its good qualities, and frequent' use in Austria, in which he could 

 scarcely be mistaken, Essb. Sclav, p. 46. t. D., it appears that it has 

 by others been found poisonous. See Grev. Sc. Crypt. Fl. I. c. and 

 RuqueSy Hist, des Champ. 



Subgenus 4. Limacium ; (from Umax, a slug ; in allusion 

 to the sliminess of the species.) Veil slimy, thin, miiversal, 

 very fugacious. Stem tolerably firm, equal or attenuated at the 

 base, solid or stuffed, squamulose or spotted, not even. Pileus 

 fieshy, convex, expanded, firm, viscid when young or moist from 

 the veil. Flesh white. Gills constantly adnato-decurrent, rather 

 thick, distant, unequal, quite entire, white, in one species yellow, — 

 Solitary, autumnal, persistent Fungi, growing on the ground, often 

 late in the year. 



* Ste7n squamidose. 



21. A. cerasinus, Berk. (Laurel- scented Agaric) ; pileus pale 

 umber, the margin minutely tomentose, gills pinkish, stem 

 solid attenuated below, punctato-squamulose above. 



Fir plantation, Winkbourn, Notts, Oct. 15, 1833. — Subgregarious, 

 sometimes three from the same root. Pileus 1^ — 2|- inches broad, 

 pale umber or ochraceous-bistre inclining to grey when old, fleshy, convex, 

 broadly umbonate, often more or less wavy, at length sometimes some 

 what depressed, viscid, shining when dry : margin clothed with minute 

 white down, divided into little linear heaps by the pressure of the gills 

 in the early stage of growth. Gills broad, decurrent, white with a 

 slight tinge of ochre or flesh colour, thick, very distant, some of them 

 forked. Sporules white. Stem 1 — 2 inches high, 2 — 6 lines thick, 

 white solid, generally attenuated below, punctato-squamulose above. 



