72 



BRITISH FUNGI. 



By M. C. Cooke. (Continued from p. 56.) 



Agaxicus (Txicholoma) pxavus. Laseh. " Deformed Tricholoma." 

 Reddish brown, pileus somewhat fleshy, campanulate, then ex- 

 panded, umbonate (slightly silky), stem stuffed, then hollow, floccose, 

 attenuated downwards ; gills adnexed with a tooth, eroded, pow- 

 dered with white. — Lasch. Lin. iv., No. 532. B. $ Br. N. H. No. 

 1191. Fr.Ep.p.42. 



In a stove. July. Kew. 

 Considered by Fries as a variety of A. ionides. 

 Agaxicus (Tricholoma) caelatus. Fr. " Embossed Tricholoma." 

 Pileus somewhat fleshy, convex, umbilicate, flocculose, then ru- 

 gose or cracked, becoming pale ; stem stuffed with flocci, equal, 

 smooth, tawny ; gills sinuate, adnate, crowded, dingy white. — Fr.Ep., 

 p. 42. B. $ Br., Ann.N.H.,No. 1192. Br. Bath, Trans. 1870,p. 61. 

 On the ground. April. Charmy Down. 



Spores subglobose, -0003 X '00015 in. Stem 1 in. high, at 

 length fistulose, incrassated above, scarcely or slightly pruinose. 

 Pileus scarcely 1 in. broad, brownish, then greyish-brown. 



Agaxicus (Tricholoma) soxdidus. Fr. "Dingy Tricholoma." 

 Tough, pileus somewhat fleshy, campanulato-convex, then plane 

 or depressed, subumbonate, smooth, hygrophanous, margin at 

 length slightly striate ; stem stuffed, fibrilloso-striate, rather 

 curved, thickened at the base ; gills rounded, rather crowded, vio- 

 laceous or dingy-white, at length sinuato-decurrent. — Fr. S. M ., «., 

 p. 51. B. $ Br., Ann. N. H., No. 1196. Fl. Dan. t. 1843,/. 2. 

 Buxb. iv., t. 12, /. 1. 



On the ground, amongst dung. Sept. 

 Spores pale ferruginous, *0003 in. 



Agaxicus (Txicholoma) lixivius. Fr. u Ashy Tricholoma." 

 Fragile, pileus rather fleshy, convex then plane, smooth, moist, 

 umbo evanescent ; margin flattened, membranaceous, slightly 

 striate ; stem stuffed, then hollow and compressed, equal, floccoso- 

 pruinose; gills truncate, free, soft, rather distant, greyish. — Fr. 

 Ep.,p. 54. B. $ Br., Ann. N. H., No. 1197. 

 In pine woods. Nov. Ascot. 



Agaxicus (Txicholoma) putidus. Fr. " Stinking Tricholoma." 

 Pileus somewhat fleshy, hemispherical, umbonate, even, soft, 

 hygrophanous ; stem hollow, fragile, sub -compressed, pruinose; 

 gills adnexed, ventricose, crowded, cinereous.—- Fr. Ep. p. 54. 

 B. $ Br., Ann. N. H., No. 1198. 

 In fir woods. Nov. 



Stem 1^ in. high, 3 lines thick, wholly fibrous, soft. and fragile ; 

 pileus olive-grey, hoary when dry, here and there glistening. Gills 

 2-3 lines broad, distinct. Odour mealy, rancid. 



Agaxicus (Txicholoma) xesplendens. Fr. " Shining Tricholoma." 

 White, pileus fleshy, convexo-plane, smooth, glutinous, with a 



