206 Agaricus. 



var. silvicola, Vitt. P. almost smooth, white, shining ; s. stuffed, 

 elongated, subbulbous, ring simple, flesh not changing colour. 



var. robustissimus, Pen. P. equal, large, 32 cm. ; g. very broad, 

 up to 2 cm.; s. tall, 13 cm. high, 6 cm. thick. 



var. exsertus, Viv. P. fleshy, almost even, glabrous, white, flesh 

 red ; s. hollow, slender, rather wavy, smooth ring small and torn, 

 appendiculate. 



var. hwtensis, Cke. P. fibrillose or squamulose, brownish. The 



variety commonly cultivated in England, 

 var. costatus, Viv. P. sulcate, wavy. 



var. vaporarim, Otto. P. and s. with a brown pilose covering. 



var. exannulatus, Cke. P. squamulose ; s. elongated, equal, 

 solid, ring evanescent or obsolete. 



perrera, Schulz. ( = Psal. Bresadolae, Schulz.) P. 8 10 cm. 

 hemispher. then exp. yellowish, centre tawny, covered with con- 

 centrically arranged tawny scales ; g. remote, crowded, joined in 

 a ring behind, rosy then fuscous; s. equal, 910 cm. stuffed then 

 hollow, base submarginately bulbous, with evanescent tawny scales 

 below the large superior ring ; sp. 8 10 x 5. 



[bitorquis, Q. P. 59 cm. globose then exp. almost glabrous, 

 milk-white then cream or ochre at the edge ; g. remote from s. 

 becoming deep brown ; s. solid, ovoid, glabrous, white, with a 

 membranous ring near the apex and a volva-like ring near the base, 

 separated by a concave notch ; sp. 5 G long. Edible. 



[flavescens, Gillet. P. globose then convex, dry, satiny, white, 

 soon tinged yellow or reddish-yellow; g. broad, brown; stem with 

 a turbinate bulb, white, suffused with reddish-yellow; flesh white, 

 ring fugacious ; sp. 8 x 4. 



silvaticus, Schaeff. P. 6 9 cm. thin, campan. then exp. gibbous, 

 fibrillose or squamulose, centre brownish becoming paler at edge ; 



. crowded, dry ; s. 8 12 cm. hollow, equal, whitish, ring simple, 

 istant ; sp. 7 x 4. 



haemorrlioidarms, Kalchbr. P. 7 12 cm. ovate then exp. 

 rufous-brown, covered with broad adpressed scales, edge at first 

 incurved, flesh deep red when broken; g. crowded, purple-umber; 

 s. 8 11 cm. white, soon hollow, fibrillose base solid, subbulbous, 

 stains red when bruised, ring superior, large ; sp. 7 8 x 5. Edible. 



[sanguinarius, Karst. Flesh blood-red when broken. P. campan. 

 exp. obtuse, usually wavy, even, pale fuscous, broken up into 

 squamules ; g. free, crowded, white, rosy-umber ; s. elongated, sub- 

 equal, curved, silky-flocculose then almost glabrous, white, ring 

 superior, pendulous, fixed, persistent, areolately-scaly outside near 

 edge ; sp. 5 7 x 3 -4. 



[niveorubens, Q. Floccose, shining white, everywhere becoming 

 red. 



Quelet now considers this to be a form of Ag. sylvatica, Schaeff., 

 to which sp. he also refers Ag. setigera, Paul, Ag. haemorrhoidaria, 

 Kalchb., Ag. rubella, Gill., and Ag. Vaillantii, Roze and Rich. 



