Agaricus.] FUNGI. 35 



Dry woods amongst beech and other leaves. Autumn. Foxhall, 

 near Edinburgh. On worn-out bark in a cold Grape-house. March. 

 Apithorpe, Norths. JRev. M. J. Berkeley. — " Plants much scattered. 

 Pileus 2 — 3^ inches in diameter, flattish in young plants, more or less 

 convex in the old ones, of a greyish-brown, very smooth, feeling, a short 

 time after gathering like fine kid leather, margin rounded, slightly 

 depressed. Flesh very thick, extremely white, rather dense, becoming 

 spongy and loose as it enters the stem. Gills very slightly decur- 

 rent, pale-yellowish, numerous, narrow. Stem 4 — 5 inches high, about 

 1 inch in diameter at the top, much thicker and ventricose downwards, 

 and again somewhat swollen at the base, hollow ; white, with an uneven 

 but not striated surface, streaked with pale pink, brown or dirty-yellow, 

 white and downy at the base, which is very obtuse. The whole stem 

 feels extremely hollow and elastic between the fingers. Jloot a fine 

 dense white down, intermixed with a few minute fibres." Grev. I. c. 

 My specimens, which are not fully developed, differ from the above 

 description, in the place of growth, in being gregarious and very min- 

 utely tomentose ; in the gills being flexuous behind with a decurrent 

 tooth, so as to form a little channel round the stem, and in the stem 

 being spongy and not hollow. Schumacher describes the gills as 

 truncate behind, and forming a canal round the solid stem. The gills 

 in Greville's figure do not accord with that of Schumacher; nor the 

 figure of either with my specimens; which, combining the peculiarities 

 of both, tend to prove that both are correct, and that Fries judged 

 rightly in considering them as identical, while he pointed out their 

 proper affinity to be with A. nehularis, and A. Schumac/ieri. There 

 is a peculiarity in the gills in my specimens, which is evidently acciden- 

 tal ; they are minutely crenate and plicate so as to appear marked with 

 prominent veins. 



81. ^. fumosus, Pers. (smoki/ Agaric) ; pileus smooth lig^ht 

 bistre, gills adnate close dirty-white as well as the even stuffed 

 stem. Pers. sjjn. p. 348. Ic. PJct. t. 7. / 3, 4. Fr. SysL Mi/c. 

 V. 1 . p. 88. 



Woods. The Cheverill near Hockerton, Nofts. Oct. — Pileus 

 2i — .3 inches broad, fleshy but thin on the margin, more or less wavy, 

 slightly unibonate, with a thick skin marked with little pits so as to 

 present the a[)pearance of innate fibrillui; bistrc-coloured. Gills rather 

 pale, variously adnate, rounded behind or eniarginate, sometimes almost 

 decurrent. Stem 1 — 2} inches long, j! of an inch thick, quite smooth 

 except at the aj>ex where it is punctato-squamulose, nearly equal, stuffed. 

 /3. A. polius, very thickly cavspitose, pileus grey, gills and stem unequal 

 dirty-white. A. alhcllus. Sow. /. \-l'l. Steins 40 or oO growing 

 together by their bases into a fleshy body, wavy, smooth. Pileus A — '^ 

 inches broad, plano-convex, white or greyish, reddish where bruised. 



82. A. viridis, With, {green Agaric) ; pileus smooth «;ieen, 

 gills adnate narrow wliite as well as the solid smooth stem. 



With. V. 4. p- 184. />. Syst, JIgc. v. l.p, 90.-/1. arnilcus, 

 Bolt. t. 12. 



Woods. Aug. Hare. Whcatly, Yorks. Bolton.— Pileus 2 — .1 

 inches broad, carnosc; //t.s/i white, obtuse, <onvex, rugose, dry, grc\i^h 

 blue, firm and liard but very brittle. Gills white, thitk niid brittle. 



