6 FUNGI. [Agaricus. 



cut, more or less completely. Gills broad in front, narrow behind, ad- 

 nexed by a fine prominent line. Spoi^ules subelliptic. Stem stuffed, at 

 length more or less hollow, bulbous, the bulb more or less smooth, 

 above the ring clothed with flat adpressed scales; below the ring the 

 scales have their upper margin free and patent ; ring large, deflexed 

 striate. — Smell strong, taste not unpleasant. — Such is the form which 

 occurs not unfrequently in the South of England. The discoloration 

 of the flesh is by no means strongly marked. Indeed I find specimens 

 in which it is very slight, and the change is rather to brown than red ; 

 the stem furfuraceous below the ring, and above striate and pulverulent ; 

 the volva thick and smooth. Smell strong like that of mould ; taste 

 like that of a germ/mating walnut. — In Scotland where it is exceedingly 

 abundant, the change of colour appears to be much greater, and is very 

 evident in the dry specimens ; though in individuals gathered by M. 

 Klotzsch at Inverary, the flesh remains quite white. In a specimen in 

 Dr. Hooker's Herbarium the pileus is 7 inches broad, stem 7^ inches 

 high, 1^ thick; the more general size, however, is pileus 3 — 5 inches 

 broad, stem 2 — 4 inches high. According to M. Cordier it is much 

 eaten in Lorraine under the name of Golmelle or Golmotte vraie, where- 

 as, according to Roques, it is poisonous. Rogues, Hist, des Champ, 

 p. 130. Since the above was written, specimens occurred at Laxton, 

 Norths, in which the change of colour was very strongly marked and 

 almost instantaneous. 



9. A. dsper, Pars, (rough-ivarted Agaric); pileus subumbo- 

 nate rough with acute warts, margin even, stem stuffed attenu- 

 ated squamulose. Pers. Obs. Myc. 2. p. 38. Abbild. d. Schw. 

 F. Scum. ic. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. !./>. 18. — Amanita aspera, Pers. 



Syn. p. 256 A. verrucosus, Bull. t. 316. — A. myodeSf Bolt. t. 



139 A. mnscarius, var. 5. With. v. 4./). 174. 



Woods. June— Oct. Lee Bridge. Bolton. East Morden, Dors. 

 CoUyweston, Norths. Rev. M. J. Berkeley.— ^oYit^ry or subgrega- 

 rious. Pileus 2 — 3 inches broad, at first convex, then expanded, 

 scarcely umbonate, reddish, with various tints of livid and grey, clothed 

 with small acute warts, margin not striate ; flesh thick permanent 

 white, except immediately beneath the epidermis. Gills white, broad in 

 front, with sometimes a little tooth behind running down the stem, at 

 length more or less imbricate. Stem 2 — 3 inches high, sometimes l^ 

 inch thick at the base, but often much less, bulbous, the bulb rather 

 rough, striate above the ring, difFracto-squamulose, or silky below ; 

 stuffed ; ring broad, striate. Flesh of the stem when eaten by maggots 

 and bulb when old, red. — The delicate surface of the ring and stipes is 

 brick-red when touched, or from the pressure of the surrounding grass. 

 Odour strong, taste not unpleasant. Poisonous according to Roques. 

 My specimens accord exactly with Bulliard's figure ; but I have 

 found it occasionally much larger; pileus 5 inches broad, stem 4^ 

 high. 



Subgenus 2. Lepiota ; (from Xs-^r/j, a scale.) Veil single, 

 universal, closely adhering to, and confluent with the epidermis, 

 when burst forming a more or less persistent ring towards the mid- 

 dle 1 of the stem. Stem hollow, stuffed with more or less densely 



' In Amanita the ring takes its origin within the pileus, forming a cover to 

 the gills ; in Lepiota the ring is merely the free portion of the universal veil, 

 answering to the free portion of the volva in Amanita. 



