1 6 AGARICUS. 



Lepiota. ^ot poisonous, but rejected as food. Spores 11x8 mk. W.G.S. Name 



gracilis, slender. Krombh.t. 24. f. 13, 14. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 21. Hym. Eur. 

 p. 30. Berk. Out. p. 93. C. Hbk. n. 19. Illust. PI. 28. 



22. A. mastoideus Fr. Pileus about 5 cent. (2 in.) broad, 

 slightly fleshy, ovate then flattened, remarkably breast- shaped with 

 an acute umbo, at the first continuous and becoming fuscous ; 

 the cuticle, however, is soon torn into minute, thin or nipple-shaped, 

 persistent scales, making the pileus then whitish and variegated 

 fuscous; flesh thin, soft, whitish. Stem 7.5 cent. (3 in.) long, 6-8 

 mm. (3-4 lin.) thick at the base, 4 mm. (2 lin.) thick at the apex, 

 almost equally attenuated from the base to the apex, cartilaginous, 

 tough and flexible, whitish, obsoletely squamulose but not spotted 

 below the entire (not torn), movable ring, even above it. Gills 

 very remote, lanceolate, very crowded, soft, pure white. 



The ring is formed after the same type as that of preceding species. The 

 gills are of the same type as those of A. procerus, with a cartilaginous collar 

 in which the stem is sunk. 



In woods. King's Cliffe, &c. Oct. 



Edible, but so thin in flesh as to be worthless. Name ^ao-Tos, breast, 

 elSos, shape. Breast-shaped. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 22. Hym. Eur. p. 30. Berk. 

 Out. p. 93. Mag. Zool. & Bot. i. t. 2./. i. C. Hbk. n. 50. Illust. PL 24. 

 Fl. Dan. t. 2144. Letell. t. 610; F.D.E. 



** Clypeolarii. Ring proper, fixed, &*c. 



23. A. Friesii Lasch. Pileus ferruginous - fuscous, fleshy, 

 soft, torn into adpressed, tomentose scales. Stem hollow, with a 

 pith of a spider-web nature, somewhat bulbous, scaly; the supe- 

 rior ring pendulous, equal. Gills somewhat remote, linear, very 

 crowded, branched. 



Almost the stature of A. procerus, handsome, with a heavy odour. 

 On sawdust. King's Lynn. 



Name after Elias Fries. Lasch, Linn. iii. n. 9. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 31. 

 Monogr. ii. p. 344. 



* A. acutesquamosus Weinm. Pileus as much as 10-12.5 

 cent. (4-5 in.) broad, pale ferruginous, fleshy, hemispherical then 

 expanded, convex, very obtuse, the cuticle adpressedly tomentose 

 and sprinkled 'with minute, sharp-pointed, fuscous, easily separat- 

 ing warts, which leave areolas on the surface ; then the surface 

 itself splits open showing the white pileus, variegated with adnate 

 warty patches, which are acute and squarrose at the disc, floccose, 

 adpressed and paler towards the margin ; flesh moderately thick, 

 very white. Stem 7.5-10 cent. (3-4 in.) long, as much as 2.5 cent. 



