Agaricus. 207 



setiger, Fr. P. exp. obtuse, smooth and silky, pale umber; g. 

 umber ; s. stuffed, elongated, equal, squamuloso-fibrillose, colour of p., 

 ring thin, fugacious. 



[rubellus, Gillet. P. exp. obtusely umb. with reddish scales, 

 especially at the disc, which is deep red-brown, paler towards edge ; 

 g. crowded ; s. hollow, cartilaginous, base swollen ; ring fugacious ; 

 flesh white. 



[lecensis, Harz. Smells like aniseed. P. convex then almost 

 plane, yellowish- white, often broken up into brown polygonal pyra- 

 midal patches ; g. white, rosy-violet, then brown, both ends narrowed ; 

 s. solid, coarsely scaly above, white becoming tinted rosy or yellow ; 

 ring conspicuous, radiately striate, outside scaly; sp. 14 15 x 5 - 5 7. 



[caldarius, Wettst. F. convex then exp. white, disc even, 

 brownish squamulose towards edge ; g. remote, narrow ; s. glabrous, 

 whitish ; sp. 914 x 511. 



B. MINORES. Flesh of pileus thin. 



comptulus. P. 3 4 cm. convexo-plane, adpressedly silky, white; 

 g. flesh -colour then rosy ; s. 4 6 cm. hollow, yellowish-white, ring 

 median ; sp. 4 5 x 2 3. 



sagatus, Fr. P. 3 5 cm. convexo-plane, tawny, glabrous; g. 

 ventricose, umber; s. 45 cm. hollow, equal, pale, ring distant, 

 spreading ; sp. 6 x 3 4. 



[amethystinus, Q. P. 3 4 cm. convex then plane, umb. downy 

 or tibrillose, white with the centre rose, lilac or amethyst; g. free, 

 ventricose, clear grey then bay-brown ; s. slender, with a silky pith, 

 somewhat bulbous, fragile, glabrous, white, with a satiny, white ring ; 

 sp. 6 7 long. 



[semotus, Fr. P. exp. even, glabrous, brick-red, disc darker ; 

 g. rather distant from stem, pallid ; s. fistulose, reddish and more or 

 less peronate up to spreading ring, pale above ; sp. 4 5 x 2 3. 



[dulcidulus, Kalchbr. P. plane, subgibbous, almost glabrous, 

 dry, lurid white or ochre ; g. crowded, grey then blackish ; s. sub- 

 bulbous, colour of p., ring median, persistent. 



Umbo often tinged fuscous or violet. 



rusiophyllus, Lasch. P. 2 3 cm. soon plane, umbonate, silky, 

 ruddy, becoming pale; g. crowded, rosy then brown; s. 3 4 cm. 

 thickened downwards, white, ring persistent; sp. 5x3. 



[zouarius, Brond. P. 1 cm. convex, with pellucid brown-violet 

 zones ; g. free, rosy then bay-bistre ; s. solid, elongated, ring 

 membranous, white. 



[geniculatus, Brig. P. campan. exp. tumid, glabrous, pale bay, 

 edge split here and there ; g. free, remote from stem ; s. bent, base 

 thickened, ring inf. 



Remarkable in this genus for growing on wood. 



[haematospermus, Bull. P. campan. then exp. then umb. and 

 scaly, brownish tan then blackish ; g. rosy- blood-red then fuscous ; 



