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BRITISH FUNGI 



Agaxicus (Psalliota) inunctus. Fr. 



Pileus fleshy, soft, even, smooth, subuniboiiate, clad with an evan- 

 escent livid purplish gluten, growing paler ; stem soft, flexuose, 

 white, silky librillose below the distant fugacious ring; gills 

 adnate, ventricose, pale brown. — Fries, Ele?i., p. 40. Fries, Epicr., 

 p. 219. Buxb. Cent, iv., t. 4, /. Saund. $ Sm. Illust. t. 29. B. $ 

 Br. Ann. N. II., 1349. 



In grassy places. Ely. Epping. 



Agaricus (Psalliota) mexdaxius. Fr. 



Pileus convex, then plane, obtuse, smooth, moist, hygrophanous ; 

 stem hollow, tough, short, flocculose, pallid when dry ; ring torn, 

 fugacious ; gills adnate, broad, yellowish then umber. — Fries, Sys. 

 Myc. I, 291. Fries, Epicr., p. 220. Buxb. Cent, iv., t. 16,/. 2. 

 Saund. 4' Sm. Illus., pi. 25. B. $ Br. Ann. N. H., 1350. 



In a grass field. Sibbertoft. 



Coxtinaxius (Inoloma) txaganus. Fr. 



Pileus fleshy, obtuse, fibrillose with lilac fibrils, then becoming 

 smooth and discoloured ; stem bulbous, spongy, violaceous white, 

 saffron yellow within ; gills emarginate, thick, crenate, distant, at 

 first ochraceous saffron colour. — Fries, Sys. Myc. i., 217. Schceff. 

 Icon. t. 56. Fries, Epicr., p. 281. Smith, Journ. Bot. (1873), p. 

 336. 



In pine woods. Forres. 



Taste strong, not unpleasant, odour very powerful, like that of 

 the larva of the goat-moth (Cossus.) 



Coxtinaxius (Fhlegmacium) txiumphans . Fr. 



Large, splendid ; pileus fleshy, convex, then plane, obtuse, 

 regular, when moist viscid, crystalline, yellow or ochraceous, 

 when dry yellow, disc spotted with minute adpressed scales, or 

 naked; margin even ; stem solid, firm, ovate-bulbous at the base, 

 attenuated upwards, striate, white, then yellowish, with tawny scales 

 disposed in rings ; veil partial ; flesh compact, white ; gills emar- 

 ginate, crowded, with a decurrent tooth, whitish, then clay-coloured. 

 Fries, Mon. Hym., ii., p. 4. B. $• Br. Ann. N.H., No. 1350.* 

 C. sublanatus, Hussey, Myc. Illus. 



In moist woods. Oct. 



Stem 3-5 in. long, 1 in. and more thick. Pileus 3-5 in. broad. 

 Gills 3 lin. broad. 



Coxtinaxius (Fhlegmacium) poxphyxopus. Fr. 



Pileus fleshy, thin, even, virgate, viscid ; stem stuffed, then 

 hollow, thin, somewhat attenuated, flesh purplish when broken ; 

 gills emarginate, crowded, thin, violaceous-purple, at length cin- 

 namon. — Fries, Epicr., p. 271. Fries, Mon. Hym., ii., p. 31. 

 B. cj- Br. Ann. N. H., No. 1351. Alb. $■ Schw., p. 153. 



In woods. Coed Coch. Oct. 



Stem 2-4 in. long, 3 lin. thick, fragile, externally and internally 

 violaceous, growing pale, then whitish. Pileus 1J-3 in. broad, 

 livid yellowish or clay-coloured. 



