36 FUNGI. [Agaricus. 



narrow, adhering to the stem by their base. Stem 2 — 3 inches high, 

 2 — 3 lines thick, dusky white, hard and solid. 



83. A. odorus, Bull, {green sweet- scented Agaric) ; fragrant 

 nearly plane more or less green, pileus even, gills decurrenti- 

 adnate rather close, stem stuffed unequal smooth. 3ull. t, 

 176, 556./. 3. Sow. t. 42. Pers. Sy7i. p. 323. With. v. 4. p. 

 376. Purl. V. 2 (^ 3. n. 904. Fr, Syst. Myc. v. I. p. 9a 

 Grev. Sc, Cryp. Fl. t. 28. Fl. Ed. p. 376.—^. cmisatus, 

 Roques, t. 15./ 4. 



In shady thick woods amongst moss and dead leaves. Aug. — Nov. 



General but seldom abundant Pileus 3 inches broad, plano-convex. 



with or without an umbo, smooth, of a lurid pale green, sometimes here 

 and there whitish so as to appear zoned ; fleshy but rather watery ; Jlesh 

 dull dirty-white, margin not striate but sometimes transparent ; in the 

 young plant inflected tomentose. Gills pale, rather waved decurrenti- 

 adnate, the interstices wrinkled. Sporides round, white. Stem 2 

 inches high, 4 Hues thick, firm somewhat flexuous, subfibrillose with a 

 little scattered down, stuffed, attenuated towards the base, which is 

 downy and furnished with strong-branched greenish or whitish roots. 

 Odour like that of aniseed. 



84. A. cdndicans, Pers. (shining-white depressed Agaric); 

 small shining white, pileus even convex at length umbilicated, 

 gills adnate at length decurrent, stem even fistulose. Pers. 

 Syn. p. 456. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. \.p. 91. Fl. Dan. t. 2021./ 1. 

 — ^. umbilicatus, Bidl. ^. 411./ 2. Bolt. t. 17. 



Amongst leaves of oak and beech. Fr. I. c. Plantations of fir and 

 larch, Fixby Hall. Bolton. July — Oct. — *' Pileus scarce 1 inch broad, 

 subcarnose, tough, regularly deflexed at the margin, rarely subdeformed. 

 Gills rather close. Stejn 1 — 2 inches high, 1 — 2 lines thick, nearly 

 equal, incurved at the base, rooted and villous, the rest smooth. Aberrant 

 forms numerous." F?-. I. c. 



85. A. dealbdtuSf Sow. (dirty-white Agaric); inodorous 

 dirty-white, pileus more or less unequal thin even, gills 

 adnate close, stem stuffed equal smooth. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 1. 

 p. 92. 



Gregarious on the roots of grass in old pastures. — Pileus f — 1^ 

 inch broad, at first convex, then plano-convex, the margin somewhat 

 undulate very slightly involute, dry, smooth though when examined 

 with a lens clothed with a very minute farinaceous silkiness which 

 retains the marks of the fingers, dirty-white, subcoriaceous, cream- 

 coloured or of a beautiful rose colour. Gills adnate, shghtly emargi- 

 nate when young, brittle, white, moderately broad. Sporules white 

 round. Stem I inch high, 2 lines thick, often curved, farinaceous at 

 the apex whitish or rose-coloured, stuffed, occasionally in age hollow 

 above, but appearing as if the more tender inner substance were carried 

 down by the knife. Odour fungoid. — This very common species I 

 believe to be Fries' A. dealbatus, but if so my specimens are certainly 

 not inodorous. 



7. pileus renaiid and lohed, stem short. Sow. t. 123. Grev. 

 FL Ed. p. 376. 



