40 FUNGI. [Agaricus, 



smooth, glutinous, green at first, partly changing to yellow of various 

 intensity, often cracking. Gills slightly adnate, bright yellow, often 

 shaded with green, subdistant, thick, broad in the centre. Stem 2 — 3 

 inches high, about 2 lines thick, hollow, splitting, green, yellow at the 

 base very slimy." Gi'ev. I. c. 



97. A. cerdceus, Wulf. {wax4ike Agaric) ; pileus convex thin 

 plane viscid substriate dull-yellow, gills adnato-decurrent 

 distant yellow as well as the somewhat unequal stem. Wulf. 

 I. c.f. 2. Sow. t. 20. With. v. 4. p. 235. Pers. Syn. p, 337. 

 Fr. Syst. Myc. v. l.jo. 102. Grev. Ft. Ed. p. 377. 



Pastures. July — Nov. Not uncommon.— Pz'/ews 1 inch broad, con- 

 vexo-plane, occasionally subumbonate, viscid, subcarnose, margin sub- 

 striate. Gills very broad (| of an inch), ventricose, connected by veins. 

 Stem 2—3^ inches long, 2 lines or more thick, flexuous, equal or 

 slightly unequal, sometimes compressed, yellow, occasionally orange at 

 the base. 



98. A. conicus, Schoeff. (cofiic black-stained Agaric) ; pileus 

 conic acute more or less iobed, gills close ascending ventricose 

 attenuated and free, stem cylindrical striate. Schceff. t. 2. 

 Pers. Syn. p. 335. Fr. Syst. 3Iyc. v. 1. p. 103. Grev. Fl. Ed. 

 p, 377. — A. croceus, Bidl. t. 50, 524./. 3. — A. auraiitius, Curt. 

 Loud, t 308. Bolt. t. 67. f. 2. Soio. t. SSI. right hand figs. 



Pastures. Sept Nov. Common.— PzVews 1—2 inches high, acutely 



conic, variously waved and Iobed, fibrillose, viscid when moist or young, 

 juicy, turning black, as does the whole plant when broken or bruised, 

 orange, yellow, scarlet, brown, dusky &c., various colours often blended 

 together. Gills thick, fleshy, ventricose, attenuated behind, free or 

 adnexed, yellowish with frequently a cinereous tinge. Stem 3 — 4 inches 

 long, 2—4 lines thick, often splitting, fibrilloso-striate, coloured like the 

 pileus. Fries has observed the gills to pour forth a sulphur-coloured 

 milk like A. scrohiculatus. 



99. A. puniceus, Fr. (swollen'Stemmed scarlet Agaric) ; pileus 

 campanulate obtuse Iobed orange-scarlet, gills fixed ascending 

 yellow, stem thick ventricose, base white. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 1. 



p. 104 A. aurantius, Fl. Ban. t. 833./. l.—A. rigidus, Bolt. 



4S.—A. cedematopus, Sibth. Fl. Ox. p. 350. With. v. 4. p. 

 196. — b. smaller. — A. cocci7ieus, Bull. t. 202. 



Plantations and woody grounds. July — Aug. Not common. 

 Fixby Hall. Bolton.—" Pileus 2—4 inches broad, at first campanulate, 

 then explanato-convex, broadly and obtusely umbonate, even, undulated 

 and Iobed, irregular, when moist subviscid, blood-coloured ; when dry 

 the centre becoming pale. Gills ventricose, 2 — 4 lines broad, at length 

 connected by veins, altogether adnate, but because of the form of the 

 pileus appearing free, yellow, varying to whitish-yellow and purplish at 

 the base. Stem 3 inches long, i— 1 inch thick, attenuated at both ends, 

 dry, striate, often squamulose at the apex ; stuffed when young, then 

 hollow, yellowish or of the colour of the pileus." Fr. I c. 



100.^. cocci?ieus, Wulf. {changeable scarlet Agaric); pileus 

 convex expanded viscid at length depressed, gills adnate with 



