Agaricus.] FUNGI. 33 



Woods, roadsides, &c. amongst roots of grass, rotten leaves, 6cc. 

 Aug. — Oct. Extremely common. Pileus H — 2 inches or more broad, 

 dry, elastic, pale reddish cream colour, at first convex quite white and 

 narrower than the stem and scarce to be distinguished from it, then 

 umbonate, soon depressed or quite infundibuliform with traces — rrr^ 

 umbo, variously crisped and lobed, the margin involute and downy ; the 

 whole being clothed with a delicate closely-woven web which is often 

 on the margin pinched up as it were into little raised striae ; these how- 

 ever in general vanish as the pileus becomes completely expanded. 

 Flesh moderately thick in the centre, of the same colour as the pileus. 

 GUIs white, attenuated at each end, numerous, unequal, some of them 

 forked at the base. Steyn very various in length, 2 — 9 lines thick, attenu- 

 ated upwards, elastic, stuffed, paler than the pileus. Odour strong but 

 grateful like that of Jl. oreades. — Differs from the last in the following 

 characters, " odour pleasant. Pileus with a thin margin at first inflec- 

 ted at length erect, truly infundibuliform, with a central umbo on 

 account of the more fleshy centre which is rarely absent in this, though 

 always in the foregoing species. The surface of the pileus is dry, never 

 moist on account of its silkiness, always more or less perceptible, nor Is 

 the stem polished. Gills close, but not very close, very decuirent." 

 Fr. EL I. c. 



13. major. Fr. El. 1. c. pileus firm broadly and obtusely um- 

 bonate. — A. yeotrupusy Bull, t 573. /. 2. — A. pikolarius, Sow. 

 t.6l. Part. V. 2 Sf 3. 7i. 902.—^. gilvus, Grcv. Sc. Crypt. Fl. 

 A 41. 



Woods. Not uncommon. — Pileus 4 inches broad. Stem fi inches long, 

 nearly 1 inch thick, H at the base, more or less fibrillose, sometimes 

 with broad transverse'closely-pressed scales. I quite agree with Fries 

 that this is nothing more than a large variety of A. infumlihulifonnis, 

 agreeing with it in every point except the superior development of all 

 its parts. 



76. A. gigdnteus, Sow. (not of Fr. El.) (giant Agaric) ; very 

 large dirty-white, pileus broadly infundibuliform, gills close 

 decurrent, stem solid subpubescent blunt. Sotv t. 244. With. 

 V. 4. ;;. loO. Furt. v. 2 (^ 3. n. 915. Grtv. Fl. Ed. p. dlb.— 

 A. infundibnliformis, y. maximus^ Fr. El. p. 13. 



Meadows and woods. Sept. Not common. Blymhill, Shropshire. 

 Mr. Dirhnson. Newliston, near Etlinburgii. CapUiin W(nt<jh. Wol- 

 hirton, Notts. Ucv. ill. J. licrkdey. — F'llcus 4 — 14 inches inroad, 

 fleshy, often splitting at the margin, broadly infundibuliforn), the base of 

 the funnel sunk into the stem with no trace of an umbo, dirty white 

 with an ochraceous tinge, minutely adprcsso-squanudose to the naked 

 eye, sometimes guttate ; the whole surface uniler a lens clotlicd w ith a 

 fine matted silkiness ; margin grooved, the grooves shallow. Gills close, 

 forked, yellow-white, as broad as the flesh of the pileus. Stem 2\—i\ 

 inches high, nearly '1 thick at the base, firm, fleshy, elastic, (juite solid, 

 .subbulbous, sometimes attenuated upwards, n)innttly but conspituou.sly 

 pubescent; when bruised dirty rufe.scent. O^/o///- strong like that of 

 A. arcades. — Certainly very nearly allied to the last, and diflering only in 

 its larger size, pubescent sten),and in its growing in rings which arc some- 

 times seventeen yards in diameter. I am not however convinccil ol thr 

 projirif'ty of nccountirig it a mere variety. Its large size certainly does 



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