Agaricus.] fungi. 37 



Pastures, woods, &c. Autumn. — " Pileus 1 — U inch broad, smooth 

 slightly fleshy, plane, umbonate sometimes depressed from the turnino; 

 up of the margin Gills narrow, irregular, white. Stem short, cruoked 

 or straight, rather tough, smooth, white. Subgregarious, polymorphous. 

 Grev. I. c. 



86. A. cerusscitus, Fr. (white lead Agaric) ; inodorous white, 

 pileus fleshy even, gills adnate close, stem solid even tomen- 

 tose at the base. Fr. SysL Myc. v. I. p. 92. EL I. p. 15. 

 — A. opacus, Soio. t. 142. With. v. 4. p. 172. 



Woods and heaths. Sept.— April.— " Often gregarious. Pileus 

 2 — 3 inches broad, a little convex but soon plane and obtuse, rather 

 shining. Gills not decurrent. Stem 2 — 3 inches high, somewhat 

 thickened at the base, furnished frequently with fibrillose radicles." 

 Fr. I. c. Sowerby describes his plant as distinguishable by the silvery 

 glare and opaque surface of the pileus. Taste like that of A. oreades. 



87. A. gramnwpddius, Bull, (sukate-stefmned Agaric) ; large, 

 pileus obsoletely umbonate even, gills adnate close, stem solid 

 smooth sulcate. Bidl. i. 548, 585. /. 1. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 1. 

 p. 93. — A. graveole?is, With. v. 4, p. 170. Purt. v. 3. p. 206. 

 (not of Sow.) 



Woods and plantations amongst grass. June — Oct. Edgbaston. In 

 rings under trees at Packington. Withering. In rings under trees, 

 Ragley Park. Purton.—" Pileus 3—5 inches broad, fleshy, margin 

 thin, rather brittle convex firm campanulale, then somewhat plane, 

 also de[)ressed and repand. Gills not decurrent, narrow, sometimes 

 divided. Stem 3 inches high, | an inch thick, firm, of the colour of the 

 pileus, thickened at the base and villous." Fr. I. c. A. (jraveolens, Sow. 

 is certainly very different from the plant of Bulliard quoted above, and 

 as Persoon suspects, probably a state of A. fastihilis. It is however 

 quoted by Fries in his Ind. Alph.p. 23. as a synonym of A. saponaceus, 

 {A. myomyces, Fr. Syst. Myc.) 



88. A. melius, Sow. (large-collared Agaric) ; pileus subum- 

 bonate even brownish, gills decurrent with a tooth, the base 

 loose and curiously recurved, stem solid equal woolly. Sow. 

 t. 184. Fr. Syst. 3Iyc. v. 1. p. 93. 



Kensington gardens. Jan. — Pileus 2 inclics broad. Stem '> — 3 

 inches high, \ an inch or more thick. Root reticulated. 



89. A. i?wr7iditis, Sow. (smooth histre-colourcd Agaric) ; pileus 

 obtuse even bistre, gills adnate at lenglii subdecurrent, stem 

 solid even smooth tliickened below. Sotv. t. 342. />. Syst. 

 Myc. V. \. p. 93. 



Pih us 3 inches broad, fleshy, plane or snbdcprcssed, margin turned in. 

 Gills of the same colour as the pilous. Stem 2 inches long, k an inch 

 thick, paler than the |)ileus. Fries FA. p. 1."), thinks that this may be a 

 variety of A.fumosus, lVr.s. and my s|)ecimens of that species describeil 

 above, seem to connect them, as also A. amjdus, l*crs. 



90. A. /imhrintiis, Holt, (fimhrintcd Agaric) ; ilirty-wliitr, 

 pileus even at length infuntiibuliform. margin ^innatnl and 



