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FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



Agaricus augustus. Fr. 



Pileus 4-6 in. across, almost globose at first then expanded, 

 very obtuse, disc even, becoming minutely fibrillose, squamose 

 towards the margin, pale brown, sometimes with a yellow 

 tinge, margin paler, flesh ^ f in. thick, compact, white, 

 slightly tinged with brown under the cuticle ; gills free and 

 distant from the stem, narrow, about ^ in., crowded, pale 

 then brownish ; stem 4-5 in. long, 1^-2 in. thick at the base, 

 becoming thinner upwards, smooth, even, whitish, or slightly 

 tinged brown at the base ; ring about ^ from the apex of 

 the stem, very broad, persistent, cracked into more or less 

 irregular portions on the under surface, stem solid ; spores 

 elliptical, 6 x 3-3 5 p. 



Agaricus (Psalliota) augustus, Fries, Epicr., p. 212 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 192 ; Cke., Illustr., t. 521. 



In orchards, woods, &c. Fries says that it often grows on 

 ant-hills. Esculent. 



A very large and fine species. Pileus 4-5 in. broad. 

 Stem 1^-2 in. thick, attenuated upwards, white, but tinged 

 with red when bruised. Flesh soft, white, unchangeable. 

 Gills never acquiring a flesh-colour. (Cooke.) 



Agaricus elvensis. B. and Br. 



Tufted. Pileus 4-6 in. or more across, subglobose then 

 hemispherical, fibrillose, broken up into large persistent 

 brown scales, areolate in the centre; margin very obtuse, 

 thick, covered with pyramidal warts ; stem at first nearly 

 equal, at length swollen in the centre, and attenuated at the 

 base, 4-6 in. high, 2 in. thick in the centre, fibrillose and 

 areolate below, nearly smooth within the pileus, solid, stuffed 

 with delicate threads ; ring thick, very large, deflexed, broken 

 here and there, areolato - verrucose beneath ; gills rather 

 crowded, \ in. broad, free, of a brownish flesh-colour ; spores 

 elliptic-oblong, 8 x 4 p.. 



Agaricus (Psalliota') elvensis, B. and Br., Ann. Nat Hist., n. 

 lOOy ; Cke., Illustr., tab. 522. 



Under oak-trees, &c. Edible, delicious eating. Flesh of 

 pileus ^ in. thick, red when cut. Allied to Ag. augustus, but 

 differing in colour, warty margin of pileus, stuffed stem, &c. 



Agaricus campestris. Linn. (fig. 1, p. 351.) 

 Pileus 3-6 in. across, globose then convexo-plane, dry, 



