Ayancus.] FUNGI. 119 



pinky-brown ; Jlesh scarcely any on the margin, rather thick in the 

 centre. Gills very numerous and close, beautifully varied with pink 

 and brown-black, the margin white or pinkish, minutely downy, slightly 

 undulated, quite free so as to leave a sort of collar round the stem ; 

 clothed with very minute obtuse papillae, surmounted by four points 

 and very difficult to detect ; sporules rather small. Stem 5 inches or 

 more high, f of an inch thick at the base, hollow, filled with arachnoid 

 fibres which are often collected into a thread, bulbous, fihriliose and 

 subadpresso-squamose, sometimes tinged with the pinkish hue of the 

 gills, brittle but tolerably firm; rin[/ thick and moveable. 1 find a 

 variety on dunghills with an ovate pileus, differing in no other point 

 from the common state. The gills are white, not umber in the infant 

 plant, as Fries states to be the case in his /3. (A. ovatiis, Schoeff. t. 7.) 



317. A. sterquilinus, Fr. (sulcate scahj dung Agaric); pileus 

 campanulate submembranaceous sulcate sericeo-villous, the disc 

 clothed with imbricate scales, gills purplish (carnation, Bolt.)^ 

 stem attenuated furnished with a ring at the base. Fr. Syst. 

 Myc. V. \.p. 308. — Fungus sterquilinus^ ^c. Mich. p. 181. ^ 80. 

 / 3.—^. oUectus, Bolt. t. 142. Pers. Syn. p. 397. — A. cylin- 

 dricus, var. 2. Wit/t. v. 4. p. 254. 



On new dunghills. Rare. About Halifax. Bolton. Edgebaston. 

 Withering. July. — Bolton's plant appears to be rather smaller and 

 less scaly than IMicheli's, to which he refers ; but on the whole there 

 seems no room for doubt that it is the same. Fries, however, considers 

 the plant of Bolton as very near to A. niveus. 



318. A. picdceus, Bull. {Magpie Agaric) ; pileus membran- 

 aceous dirty-white at length broken into broad scales, gills at 

 length black, stem bulbous naked, ring none. Bidl. t. 206. 

 Sow. t. 170. Pers. Syn. p. 397. Purt. v. 3. «. 1476. Fr, 

 Syst. Myc. v. I. p. 308. 



Grassy places. Sept. — Dec. Rare. Hainault Forest. Peckham 

 Wood. Sow. Alcester and Dunnington. Purton. Wansford, Norths. 

 Rev. M. J. Berheley. — Pileus 2 inches broad and high, campanulate, 

 glutinous, closely grooved, brown with a tinge of red above ; margin 

 cinereous; dimpled at the apex. Epidermis cracking into large pale 

 fawn-coloured subconic scales ; Jlesh very thin. Gills broad, ventricose, 

 narrow in front, black, the extreme margin, except when deli(iucscent, 

 white ; not so close as in the following species, clothed with prominent 

 spiculae exactly as long as the interstices are broad, (juite free. Spondes 

 elliptic, black. Strm G inches high, \ an inch thick at the base, 

 beautifully satiny with adpresscd ftbrilhi', attenuated above where it is 

 subtomentose and stained with the sporules, subbulbous below, hollow 

 with a few stringy fibres attacheil to the walls. 



319. A. atratnrntdriuSy Bull, (inky Agaric) ; c?Pspitoso, pileus 

 subcarnose brownish, apex scaly, gills ventricose white, then 

 purple-brown, stem equal naked. Ihill. t. 104. Fr. Syst. Myc. 

 V. 1. p. 308. Grec. Fl. Fd. p. 394. — Fungus multiplex, .Sr. 

 Vadl. Bot. Par. p. 73, /. 12. /.* 10.— yl. ovatus, Curt. Land. 

 t, 101. With. r. 4. ;;. 239. Part. v. 2 .^ 3. n. 9G6.— ./. luridus, 

 Bolt. t. .54 A.Jinntnrius, Sow. t. 188. 



Fields, gardens, waste places, roots of trees, 8i.c. Spring and autumn. 



