1 8 AGARICUS. 



Lepiota. 25. A. meleagris Sow. Pileus about 5 cent. (2 in.) broad, 



fawn-coloured, fleshy, thin, at first ovate or hemispherical, very 

 obtuse, minutely tomentose and warty, then expanded, somewhat 

 campanulate, dotted with minute brown scales ; flesh turning red. 

 Stem stuffed with cottony threads, fusiform then nearly equal, of 

 the same colour, here and there tinged with yellow, most minutely 

 squamulose. Ring soon ruptured, very fugacious. Gills remote, 

 distant, rounded behind, sometimes connected, white. 



The whole plant changes in drying, or when cut, to a beautiful red. Closely 

 allied to A, clypeolarius. Two forms occur which run into each other, the less 

 typical of which has a campanulate obtuse pileus, and is of a darker tint when 

 dry. In the variety the gills are sometimes lemon-coloured. 



In hothouses on spent tan. Rare. May-Oct. 



Spores 5x8 mk. W.P. Name meleagris, a guinea-fowl. From the 

 spotting. Sow. t. 171. B. & Br. n. 986*. C. Hbk. n. 24. Illust. PL 

 26. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 18. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 31. Tricholoma Berk. Out. 

 p. 101. 



26. A. biornatus B. & Br. Pileus 5 cent. (2 in.) broad-, 

 fleshy, convex, broadly campanulate, white, silky, sprinkled with 

 minute dark-red punctiform scales (without striae); flesh white, 

 or slightly tinged with yellow. Stem 10 cent. (4 in.) high, 8 mm. 

 (^ in.) thick, stuffed then hollow, oblique, attenuated at the base, 

 rooting, spotted with red, reddish within. Ring descending, 

 spotted at the edge like the pileus. Gills approximate, ventricose, 

 4 mm. (2 lin.) broad, white. 



The whole plant becomes dark in drying. 



In melon-frame. Arthingworth, 1876. July. 



Spores 10 x 8 mk. B. & Br. Name bis, twice, orno, to adorn. From the 

 twofold colouring. B. & Br. Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. p. 502. Ann. Nat. 

 Hist. n. 1633. C. Illust. PL 37. 



27. A. hispidus Lasch. Pileus 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) broad, 

 umber-fuscous, fleshy, soft, hemispherical then expanded, umbo- 

 nate, at the very first tomentose from the universal veil, the down 

 separating into papillae or scales ; flesh thin, white, unchangeable. 

 Stem about 7.5 cent. (3 in.) long, 6-10 mm. (3-5 lin.) thick, tubular, 

 but stuffed with fibrils internally, attenuated upwards, densely 

 woolly-scaly from the universal veil clothing the stem as far as the 

 superior, membranaceous, reflexed ring, fuscous. Gills free, 

 approximate, with a prominent collar encircling the stem, crowded, 

 ventricose, simple, white. 



The pileus is not at first evened and continuous as in A. clypeolarius, &c. 

 The down separates into scales almost like those of A. acutesquamosris. Not 

 becoming red when broken like A. meleagris, &c. Odour somewhat of radish. 



