Agaricus.] FUNGI. 43 



close wliite as well as the downy solid equal rooting stem. 

 Fr. Si/st. Myc, v. 1. ;?. 110. 



Woods. Canterhury. Oct. 23, ]833.—Pileus 2^ inches broad, 

 convex, at length depressed, firm, fleshy, under the lens minutely 

 adpresso-silky, margin at first involute ; Jiesh white. Gills white, 

 when young arcuato-adnate, nearly horizontal, when old subilecurrent, 

 very brittle, closer than in the last, but still not very close. Stem firm, 

 solid, composed of fibres, more or less fibrillose or fibrilloso-squamose, 

 the fibrillae curved up from below ; paler than the pileus ; rooting, 

 downy at the base, not bulbose, apex pruinose. Odour in all respects 

 like the last, only not quite so strong. 



106. A. inamck'niSy Fr. (tvfiite strong-scoited Agaric) ; pileus 

 fleshy subumbonate nearly smooth whitish, gills variously fixed 

 distant white as well as tlie equal rooting stem. Fr. Syst. 

 Myc. V. \.p. 111. 



Woods. Oct. Not uncommon. Cranbourne Chase, Dors. Cot- 

 tei-stock. King's Cliffe, Norths. &c. Bev. M. J. Berkeley. — Pileus 

 1 — 3 inches broad, convex, with or without an umbo, fleshy, but not 

 very thick on the margin, under the lens adpresso-silky ; white with a 

 slight tinge of ochre in the centre. Gills broad (^ — 3. of an inch,) 

 distant, emarginate. Stem 2 inches or more long, 3 — 6 lines thick, 

 equal, tough, composed of fibres, not rooting in my specimens. Odour 

 like that of the two last. — I find a state of this with the pileus singu- 

 larly compressed all round, minutely pitted and wrinkled, the epider- 

 mis cracked so as to appear tesselated. Fries in his specific character 

 describes it as smooth, but in his subjoined remark im[)lies that it is 

 "sericeo-adpressus." A.Cossus, Sow. with which Fries compares it in his 

 Elenchus, is certainly quite different, as stated above. My specimens 

 have not so much the habit of that, as of ^. cinerascensy Bull, or A. 

 Columbetta. 



E. Calodontes ; (from xa>.o; heautifnl, and oooj; a tooth.) 

 Pileus smooth, sub/tumid. Gills arcuato-adnexed, connected by 

 reticulate veins, margin ivith lUtle tooth-like processes. 



\07. A. pelinnfhinus, Fr. (black-toothed Agaric) ; pileus con- 

 vex livid-purplish, margin striate, gills arcnato-adnexed purple 

 with black teeth, st<'m fistulose equal. Fr. Syst. Jiyc. v. I. p. 

 112. — A. denticulatus, Bolt. t. 4. /! 1. Pers. Syn. p. 4'23. 



Woods near Halifax. Sept. Bolton. — ''Pileus I — 2 inches broad, 

 when moist transparent, when dry, whitish tinned with purple, the disk 

 fleshy, even, rather ohtwsc ; Jlesh white, (tills elegantly connected 

 by a net-work of veins, distant, purple ; when dry, fuscous-umber. 

 Sporules white; I'eil none. Stem 2 — 3 inches high, \] — 2 lines thick 

 smooth, becoming pallid." Pr. I. r. 



V. TfruAUSTT; (from ihaj^oc, brittle.) Pileus thin, dry. Gills 

 emarginate. More or less brittle. 



108. A. nuirinuceus. Bull, (large niouse-scenttd Agaric) ; 

 pileus snlxarnose irregidar cinereous cracked and sqiiamulose, 

 gills distant branched and inosculating with a cinereous tint as 



