390 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



soft, almost glabrous, rugulose, dingy greyish ochre theii 

 pale, disc obtuse, even ; gills rounded behind and adnexed, 

 ventricose, dry, 3-4 lines broad, greyish then blackish- 

 brown, edge whitish ; stem 24 in. long, 2-3 lines thick, 

 equal, fibrillose, white, rather pruinose, hollow. 



Agaricus (Hypholoma) cascus, Fries, Epicr., p. 224 : Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 205 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 544. 



In grassy places. Gregarious ; fragile. 



Terrestrial, gregarious, not caespitose, very fragile. Stem 

 hollow, equal, 3-4 in. long, 2-3 lines thick, fibrillose, white, 

 apex slightly powdered with white meal. Veil appendi- 

 culate at the margin of the pileus, squamulose, white, and in 

 the young stage forming white squamules on the pileus, 

 which soon disappear. Pileus rather fleshy, oval then 

 expanded, obtuse, 1| 3 in. broad, glabrous, livid-grey, truly 

 soft, rugulose, and whitish clay-colour when dry ; disc very 

 persistently even. Gills rounded, adnexed, ventricose, up 

 to 4 lines broad, dry, fragile, grey then blackish-brown, 

 edge whitish. (Fries.) 



Hypholoma punctulatus. Kalchbr. 



Caespitose. Pileus about 1 in. across, flesh thin, convex, 

 obtuse, margin involute and the centre rather depressed, 

 dry, pallid, with a yellowish or brownish tinge, minutely 

 squamulose from the very delicate veil, at length naked; 

 flesh pale brownish, tawny towards the base ; gills 2-3 lines 

 broad, sinuato-adnate, with a decurrent tooth, rather 

 crowded, edge entire, pallid then pale-umber ; stem 1-2 in. 

 long, 23 lines thick, fleshy-fibrous, stuffed, equal or rather 

 bulbous at the base, pallid, squamuloso-fibrillose up to the 

 ring, glabrous above ; ring superior or near the apex, thin, 

 formed of fibrils clustered to form a zone, fugacious ; spores 

 brown. 



Agaricus (Pholiota) punctulatus, Kalchbrenner, Icon. Sel. 

 Hung., p. 25, pi. 14, f. 2. 



Agaricus (Stropharia) punctulatus (Kalchbr.), Fries, Hym. 

 Eur., p. 282. 



Agaricus (HypJioloma) punctulatus, Cke., Hdbk., p. 206; 

 Cke., Illustr., pi. 587 B. 



On rotten twigs and on chips lying on the ground. 

 Densely tufted. 



