CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI, 



SuBORD. I. Hymenomycetes. Hymenium naked. 



Tribe I. Pileati.^ Receptacle dilated more or less in a hori- 

 zontal direction^ sometimes branched, tending to an orbicular form. 

 Hymenium inferior. Asci fixed, 



1. Agaricus."2 Linn. Agaric. 



Hymenium consisting of plates radiating from a common 

 centre, with shorter ones in the interstices, composed of a 

 double closely connected membrane, more or less distinct from 

 the pileus. Veil various or absent. — Named from Agaria, a 

 region of Sarmatia. 



Series I. Leucosporus ; (XivKog, white, and dTro^og, seed.) Spo- 

 rules whiie.^ 



Subgenus 1. Amanita; (a name given to some esculent 

 Fungus by Galen.) Veil double: one universal, covering the 

 whole plant in a young state, distinct from the epidermis, at length 

 burst by the protrusion of the pileus, part remaining at the base of 

 the stem, part either falling off or forming ivarts on the pileus ; the 

 other partial, at first covering the gills and afterwards forming a 

 reflected sub-persislent ring on the top of tJie stipes. Stem stuffed, 

 at length hollow, squamoso-fibrillose, thickened at the base. Pileus 

 with the disk fleshy, the rnargin thin, campanulate, then plane; 

 viscid when saturated with moisture. Gills attenuated behind, free, 

 broader in front, vcntricose, close, but litde unequal, when full 

 grown denticulated. — Sub-solitary Fungi, growing on the ground 

 or dung, never on ivood ; not soon decaying. 



* Volva loose, mnrgin of the pileus even, poisonous. 

 1. A. phaUoidcs, Fr, {Vhalhis-like Agaric); pileus more or less 

 scaly, margin not striate, stem hollow above, volva bulbous. 



Fr. Syst. Myc. v. \.p. 13 Fungus phalloides, VaiJl. Bot. Par. 



;;. 74. t. 14./ 5 A. bulbosus. Bull. t. ± bll . With. cd. 7. v. 4. 



' 'J'Ih* pi/eiis is somcliiiu's rcsnpiuuto, the /ii/mn)itimhi']iiii uppiM'inost ; as, for 

 instance, in some sjtccit's of A(/(iritiis, Pnh/ponts, 'riitlijtlinru, Sc. Hut in sui-h 

 cases tlu're is a ^n-attT nr h-ss t»Mul«'ni-y to brconu* ivllt'itcii, so tliat tln' 

 fiymeniitin niav f^ain its normal inferior position. 



» IJy the Ki'v. M. J. litrkrh,,. 



^ In A. ftliitacens,lutcus, niddn.t, fuliirinosus, the sp«iriih's ;.re pah- yellow or 

 huff. 



