Agaricus.] FUNGI. 7 



interwoveii aracfmoid threads; equal or thickened at the base^ Ji- 

 brillose, Pileiis more or less fleshy, hut not compact, ovate lohen 

 young, soon campanulate, then expanded and umhonate. Flesh 

 white, soft. Gills unequal 7iever distant or decurrent. Colour of 

 tbe gills white, in some varieties yellow. — Solitary, persistent, au- 

 tumnal Fungi growing on the ground ; not dangerous. 

 * Veil at length hose ; gills remote, (ending at a considerable 



distance from the stem.) 

 10. A. procerus. Scop, {large shaggy Agaric) ; large, epidei'- 

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

 cylindrical bulbous, ring moveable. Scop. Fl. Cam. n. 1465. 

 Schceff. t. 22, 23. Curt. Fl. Lond. t. 69. Soio. t. 190. With. 

 V. 4. p. 241. Purt. V, 2 and 3. n. 954. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 1. 

 p. 20. Grev. Fl. Ed. p. 370. — A. colubrinus, Bidl. t. 78. 583. 

 — A. annulatus, Bolt. t. 23. 



Gardens, hedge-banks, pastures and woods. July— Oct. Common.— 

 Pileus 3—7 inches broad, at first obtusely conic, at length campanulate, 

 strongly umbonate, fleshy ; ejndermis velvety, red-brown, broken into 

 subreflexed scales, the whole resembling brown shaggy leather ; margin 

 white or pinkish, silky ; fe^ih soft and cottony except in the centre when 

 young. Gills perfectly free, separated by a considerable space from the 

 point'of insertion of the stipes, ventricose, margin serrated, pale pinkish 

 yellow or white. Sporules white, elliptic. Stem 8—12 inches high, | an 

 inch thick, attenuated upwards, sunk deep into the flesh of the pileus 

 as into a socket, very bulbous, scaly, hollow but stuffed with a cottony 

 web. J{i72g coriaceous, thick and spongy, convex below, moveable. 

 Taste and smell pleasant. Forming, on the continent, a frequent article 

 of food. Roques, Hist, des Champ, p. 120. 



11. A. excoridtus, Scboeff. {excoriated Agaric); not large, 

 epidermis of the pileus close broken into little patches, gills 

 remote, stem equal, ring moveable. Schceff. t. 18, 19. Fr. 

 Syst. Myc. ?;. 1. /;. 21. Purt. MSS.—A. procerus, var. 4. With. 

 V. 4. p. 242. — var. Purt. v. S. p. 418. 



Pastures, especially under trees. May— Sept. Edgbaston, under 

 Spanish Chestnut. Withering. Apethorpe, Northamptonshire. Rev. il/. 

 J. Berkeley. —Pileus 2\ inches across, expanded, often a little irregular, 

 carnose, umbonate; flesh spongy; t'/^ic^t-rwis cracked into small areolae, 

 silky between them, especially on the margin, pale fawn, the umbo 

 dark. Gil/s ventricose, free, so as to leave a broad space round the top 

 of the stem, which is sunk into the substance of the pileus, dull white, 

 slightly watery, imbricate when old ; sometimes much broader on one 

 side than on the opposite side of the pileus, and sometimes stained with 

 claret-coloured blotches. Sporules white, elliptic, with an evident trans- 

 parent border. Stem U— 2 inches high, j— .', of an inch thick, at- 

 tenuated regularly upwards without a decided bulb, n)inutely fibrillose, 

 hollow but stutttid with a beautiful cottony web. Ring dcflexed, 

 moveable, but not so free as that of //. procerus.— 'SmcW scarcely any ; 

 taste like that of A. orendes. 



** Veil fixed or fugacious ; gills remote or free. 

 12. A. ce])d stipes, Sow. (white bark-bed Agaric) ; pileus ram 



