HYMENOMYCETES. 



Synopsis of AGARICINL Fries Ep. 



I. — Gills soft, menibranaceous, splitting lovgitudinally unth ease, edge, single. 



Gemis 1. AGARICUS. 980 Species. Fries Ep.* 



Gills neither compacted nor dissolving into black juice ; trama 

 concrete with the sub -floccose substance of the pileus ; basidia 

 crowned with sterigmata, bearing simple spores, which are at 

 length driven off. 



Genus 2. COPRINUS. 50 Species. Fries Ep. 



Agakicus in part E.F. 



Gills at first compacted, at length dissolving into black juice ; 

 trama none ; spores brown-purple or blackish. Mostly fime- 

 tarious. 



Genus 3. BOLBITIUS. 6 Species. Fries Ep. 



Agaricus in part E.F. 



Gills at first compacted, at length sub-deliquescent ; spores 

 ferruginous. Fragile and fugacious, sub-fimicolous, growing 

 in pastures. 



Genus i. CORTINARIUS.j 216 Species. Fries Ep. 



Agaricus in part E.F. 



Volva, when present discrete ; veil, when ijresent arachnoid or 

 fibrillose ; gills changing colour, becoming dry, powdered with 

 the cinnamon spores, which are not driven off in drying. 

 The spores shed on p.aper appear sub-ochraceous. Fleshy. 

 Terrestrial. 



Genus 5. PAXILLUS. 9 Species. Fries Ep. 



Agaricus in part E.F. 



Pileus fleshy, concrete with the stem ; margin at first involute ; 

 gills forked, rather close, decurrent, inclining to form pores at 

 the base, easily separable from the pileus; .spores globose, 

 sub-ferruginous. Growing on the ground. 



Genus 0. OOMPHIDIUS. 3 Species. Fries Ep. 



Sub-genus Gomphus E.F. 



I'ileus fleshy, concrete with the stem ; volva glutinous ; gills 

 distant, decurrent ; spores elongated, somewhat compound. 

 On the ground in woods. 



• Including species from all parts of the world. 



X Tlie generic cliaracters ot Cortinarius arc obscure. In the index of the 

 Epicrisis, and in a later work entitled "Cortinarii et Ilygrophori Suecia;," M. Fries 

 gives the "universal, discrete, arachnoid veil" as one of the principal marks: 

 whereas, in the first species, C capcrat\is, which he styles " princeps hujus grcgis," 

 he rightly describes the universal veil as " floccose-farinose ; " in the group Myx- 

 aeiiim it is glutinous, and in many of the succeeding species it seems obsolete. 



