118 FUNGI. [Ayaricus. 



" Shady places in woods, at the bottom of posts. Aug. — Sept. 

 Not common. — Pileus 2 inches broad. Stem 3 inches high, as thick 

 as a swan's-quill." Piirt MSS. 



315. A. dissemindtus, Pers. {minikifi Agaric); gregarious, 

 small, pileus ovate- campanulate plicate, gills adnate or adnexed 

 whitish-cinereous, stem incurved smooth. Pers. Syn. p. 403. 

 Syst. Myc. v. I, p. 303. — A. minutulus, Schceff. t. 308. With. 

 V. 4. p. 212. Purt. V. 24-3. 91. 935 — A. Tinti?mabulum, 

 Batsch, El.f. 3. b. — A. striatus. Sow. t. 166. — A. disseminatus, 



Grev. Fl. Ed. p. 393. c A. digitaliformis, Bull, t 22. A. B. 



t.o2b.f.\. 



On the ground, above buried wood or on old stumps. Spring and 

 autumn. Very common. — Gregarious, caespitose, many thousands 

 growing together. Pileus 3 lines broad, campanulato-conic, minutely 

 pubescent, strongly striate, submembranaceous, tender, fragile, ochra- 

 ceous, at length white with a pearly tint towards the margin. Gills 

 broadly adnate, pink inclining to cinereous. Sporides brown-purple, 

 elliptic, subquaternate. Stem 1 inch high, ^ line thick, fistulose, curved, 

 white, pubescent, attenuated upwards downy at the base. Sowerby's 

 plant is larger and more highly coloured, ^—h an inch broad ; it agrees 

 in the minute pubescence. It occurs especially on willow trees. 

 Bulliard's plant is represented with the gills free, and De Candolle 

 describes it, as it is figured, t. 525. f. 1, as clothed with little sphserical 

 tubercles. 1 have seen nothing that accords with this character. 



Subgenus 35.* Coprinus. Gills free, tinequal, thin, simple, 

 changing colour, at length deliquescent. Asci large, segregate ; 

 sporules quaternate. Veil universal, more or less concrete, Jlocculose, 

 fugacious. Stem fistulose, straight, elongated, brittle, subsquamu- 

 lose, whitish. Pileus membranaceous, rarely subcarnose, when 

 young ovato-conic, then campanulate, at length torn and revolute, 

 deliquescent, distinct from the stem, clothed with the flocculose 

 fragments of the veil. Fugacious fungi, growing in rich dungy 

 places or on rotten wood. 



S16. ^. comdtus, Miill. {cylindric Agaric) ; pileus subcarnose 

 scaly white, gills white then rufous-purple, stem subbulbous, 

 ring moveable. Fl. Dan. t 834. Pers. Syn. p. 395. Fr. 

 Syst. Myc. v. 1. p. 307. Grev. Fl. Ed. p. 393. Scot. Cryp. 



Fl. t. 119 A. porcellaneus, Schceff. ^. 46 4- 47.—^. typhoideSy 



Bull. t. 16, 582,/. 2 A. fimetarius, Bolt. t. 44. Curt. Lond. 



t. 93.—^. cylindricus, Schceff. t. 8. With. v. 4. p. 253. Purt. 

 2;. 2 4- 3. n. 963. 



Meadows, road-sides and waste places. April — Oct. Very com- 

 mon Pileus 3 — 4 inches high, 2 inches broad, campanulato-cylindric ; 



epidermis white, breaking up into broad fibrillose subfuscous scales ; 

 beneath this coating the pileus is finely plicate, often split and of a 



"" I consider this division of exactly the same importance as the other sub- 

 genera. The sporules being certainly quaternate in many species of the two 

 foregoing subgenera, no dependance can be placed upon this character. 



