98 DECADES OF FUNGI. 
wanting. Gills broad, ventricose, rounded behind and free. Spores 
white, elliptic. 
esembling some of the dwarf forms of 4g. vaginatus, but at once 
` distinguished by its solid stem and decidedly viscid, areolato-squamose 
ileus. 
202. 4. (Psalliota) Achimenes, Berk. and Curt. ; pileo plano glabro 
nitido verrucis exasperato; stipite floccoso-farcto ; lamellis liberis ex 
albido cinereis. Curt. No 
AB. On the ground, near the Santee River, South Carolina. June, 
1841. 
Solitary. Pileus 4—6 inches broad, pallid or ochroleucous, plane, 
smooth, like kid leather, but studded with warty excrescences especially 
towards the centre. Stem 4-6 inches high, 4 of an inch or more 
thick, white, stuffed with floccose fibres, furnished towards the apex 
with a large deflexed ring. Gills broad, crowded at first, whitish, then 
cinereous or lead-coloured, free. Spores brownish. 
A splendid species, allied to 4g. fabaceus, Berk., but differing in its 
are ay mn ileus, ample ring, &c. 
3. Pluteus) eiit Berk., MSS. ; pileo erugi viscido hepa- 
i ; PH. solido glabro albo; lamellis lhetis ex albo roseis. Curt., 
o. 1523 
Has. Beneath fallen trunks in woods. South Carolina. Oct. 
Pileus 2 inches or more broad, convex, dark liver brown, smooth, 
not wrinkled, viscid when moist, with a satiny lustre when dry. Stem 
24 inches high, 4 of an inch thick, smooth, white, solid, rather in- 
crassated at the base. Gills at first white, free, rounded behind, 
rather broad, thin, crowded, at length rose-coloured. Odour dis- 
agreeable, though not strong. 
Allied to 4g. leoninus, but abundantly distinct from all the species 
in its section, and remarkable for its smooth, viscid, liver-coloured pileus. 
* Paxillus flavidus, Berk.— Ag. rhodoxanthus, Schwein. 
The species occurs in Lower Carolina as well as in the more northern 
ates 
204. Hygrophorus mucilaginosus, Berk. and Curt. ; pileo valde mu- 
cilaginoso lztecolori convexo demum plano striato; stipite fragili sub- 
concolori fistuloso; lamellis decurrentibus crassis carneis. Curt., 
No. 1258. 
Has. In swamps. South Carolina. July, 1847. 
