10 FUNGI. [Agaricus. 



tinged slightly with yellow. Sporiiles white, elliptic. Slein 1 — 2 inches 

 high, 1 — 2 lines thick, tough, composed of fibres, smooth or fibrillose ; 

 hollow but with a few cottony fibres ; Jlesh towards the base reddish. 

 " Root a mass of white branching fibres of considerable tenacity, and 

 generally retaining a quantity of soil." Smell and taste strong and un- 

 pleasant. There are two distinct forms, besides the white one figured 

 by Micheli. The one described above is that figured by Greville ; the 

 other that of Bolton, very different in habit as may be seen on compar- 

 ing the plates. Bolton's figure is however by no means uncharacteristic. 

 I found two specimens exactly agreeing with it, amongst sticks, at the 

 root of a tree, under Wollarton Park wall, Notts. The gills are broader 

 the scales are sharp, strongly elevated, almost conical, dark brown. 

 Stetn sericeo-pulverulent above the place of the ring, which is very fu- 

 gacious ; below rufous and furfuraceous. Odour strong, but resembling 

 that of//, oreades. 



*** Veil fixed or fugacious ; gills suhadnexed. 



17. A. granidosus, Batsch, {small yelloio scaly Agaric^; 

 pileus furfuraceous, gills fixed, stem more or less hollow scaly 

 beneath the patent ring. Batsch. El, p. 79. /. 24. Pers. Syn. p. 

 264. Fr. Syst. 3Iyc. v. I. p. 24. Grev. Fl Ed. p. 370. Sc. 

 Crypt. Fl. t. 104.—^. ochraceus, BidL t. 362, 530./. 2>.—A. 

 Jlavo-fioccosus, Batsch y Cent. \. f. 97 / — A. croceus^ Bolt. t. 

 51. f. 2. Sow. t. 19. With. V. 4. p. 183. Purt. v. 2 atidS. 

 n. 925. — A. carcharias, Pers. Ic. Pict. t, h.f. 1 — 3. 



Woods, especially of fir, and on heaths amongst moss, roots of grass, 

 &c., and on the stumps of old fir-trees. Autumn. Not uncommon. — 

 Pure white with a slight rufescent tinge on the centre of the pileus and 

 base of the stem; Aimer, Dorsets. Rev. M. J. Berkeley. — Flesh-colour- 

 ed ; Scotland. Klotzsch in Hook. Herb. — Subgregarious. Pileus ^ to 

 1 inch broad, in general dull reddish-yellow, but occasionally ferrugin- 

 ous, pink, Vermillion or white. Fleshy in the centre, at first convex or 

 obtusely umbonate, at length often plane or depressed somew^hat 

 wrinkled, covered with furfuraceous scales. Gills white or yellowish 

 white, fixed to the stem ; ventricose and nearly free in depressed spe- 

 cimens. Stem 1 — 3 inches high,l — 4 lines thick, slightly incrassated at the 

 base, when young solid, but in age hollow, with a core occasionally run- 

 ning down from the centre of the pileus, and the base stuffed, sometimes 

 slightly compressed, with a subfugacious flocculose ring about the mid- 

 dle, above which it is slightly fibrillose, and beneath it scaly like the 

 pileus. In the white variety above mentioned, the pileus and stem were 

 mealy rather than scaly, and the ring attached in fragments to the edge 

 of the pileus. 



Subgenus 3. Aumillaria; (from armilla, firing.') Veil 

 single, partial, springi7ig from the stem., and forming a persistent 

 ring ivhich in the unexjmnded plant is joined to the margin of the 

 pileus. Stem solid, firm, suhfihrillose, U7iequal. Pileus fie shy, 

 convex, expanded, obtuse, the epidermis always close even in the 

 scaly species, plainly distinct from the veil. Flesh ichite, firm. 

 Gills broad, unequal^ subacute behind. Colour of the gills ivhite 

 or pallid. — Autunmal species, persistent, esculent. Ring superior, 

 (refiected from the top of the stem^ ; or inferior, inserted at the 



