Af/aricus.] FUNGI. 9 



14. A. polf/siwtus, Berk. (Jies/it/ moUled Agaric) ; inodorous, 

 fleshy, epidermis of llie pileus and stem broken into scales, 

 gills broad approximate, stem attenuated above and below. 



On a lawn after a fortnight's stormy weather. July 26, 1828. Cot- 

 terstock, Northamptonshire. Hev. AI. J. Berhdey. — Pileus H inch 

 broad, not at all campanulate, expanded, and broadly and obtusely um- 

 bonate; Jiesh thick in the centre, firm and tough, the cjndermis broken 

 into minute flat scales of a rich red-brown. Gills numerous, unequal, 

 rounded before and behind, broad, ventricose, quite free, the margin 

 serrulate, white with a slight yellowish tinge. Stem 1 inch high, | 

 of an inch thick in the middle, divided into two distinct por- 

 tions ; the upper one silky of a pinkish hue, the lower scaly like the 

 pileus, but the scales browner ; attenuated at the base where it is fur- 

 nished wiih many branched fibrous roots, hollow, stuffed with fine silky 

 filaments. Ring fugacious, attached in minute portions to the edge of 

 the pileus. Inodorous and insipid. — I have met with this plant only 

 once, but there can be no doubt that it is very distinct from A. clyi^eola- 

 rius, with which it has the nearest affinity. It may possibly be A. colu- 

 briniis, vai\ /S. j)cint1icrinus^ Pers. Syn. p. 259. It agrees with it in many 

 points, but he describes his plant as subbulbous, and I am not sure 

 whether the expression '^ subcarnosiis^^ will apply correctly to a plant in 

 which the flesh is \ of an inch thick and only H across. 



15. A. Meledgris, Sow. (checquered Agaric); pileus earnose 

 spotted with distinct dark scales, gills subremote moderately 

 broad, stem stout scaly like the pileus, the lower half black. 

 Sow, t.ni. Pers. Myc. Eur. v. 3. p. 346. Klotzsch, 31 SS, 



in Hook. Herb A. colubrinvs, Tratt. Fung. Aust. t. 13.y. 26. — 



A. chjpeolarins, Fl. Dan. I. I7S2./. 1. 



Hot-beds. Melon-beds atErskine, Scotland, the seat of Lord Blantyre. 

 Klotzsch. ISIay — Oct. — The stem appears stuffed in M. Klotzsch's speci- 

 mens. " It has a solid stem and a curious, somewhat reticulated root. 

 In drying it becomes of a blush-red all over, except the lower part 

 which retains the darker hue." Soio. I. c. M. Klotzsch's specimens have 

 a very flexuous stem, above three inches long, | inch thick, nearly equal. 

 Pileus 1 j inch broad. In Sowerby's figure and model the stem is in- 

 crassated below. But in either case it is much stouter in proportion 

 than in A. clypcolarius. Fries' supposition in the Elcnchus that it is the 

 same as A. ciineifolius is certainly wrong. 



16. A. cristdtus, Bolt, (crested Agaric) ; strong-scented, epi- 

 dermis of the pileus breaking up into scales, gills remote, stem 

 smooth, rinj>- fugacious. Bolt. t. 7. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. I. p. 22. 

 Grev. Fl. Ed. p. 370. Sc. Crypt. Fl. t. 176. Purt. MSS.— 

 A. clypcolarius, var. 3. With. v. 4. p. 245. Purt. v. 3. p. 420. (in 

 part.) — A. subantiquatus, Batsch, Cent. 2./. 203. 



In grassy and mossy places, especially on lawns, sometimes on gar- 

 den-beds, Aug. — Nov. (Jommon. — Solitary or subgrrgarious. Pileus 

 ^ to 1^ inch broad, expanded, umbonatc, white, the epidermis 

 broken into rufescent scales which arc cither Hat or reHexcd, less 

 frequent on the margin ; ////ij sometimes attached in fragments to the 

 margin, soim'tiines moveable on the stem ; flesh firm, thin. d'Hls re- 

 mote, numerous, slightly ventricose, the margin uneven often imbricated, 



