54 AGARICUS. 



Tricholoma. Spores sphaeroid or ovoid-ellipsoid, 9-11 x 5-7 rnk. K. Name inamasnus, 

 unpleasant. From the odour. Fr. Monogr. p. 78. Hym. Eur. p. 64. Icon, 

 t. 38. /. 2. Berk. Out. p. 102. B. & Br. n. 1733*. C. Hbk. n. 65. Illust. 

 PI. 77. S. hlycol. Scot. n. 60. Sow. t. 121, otherwise very distinct, exactly 

 represents its habit. 



** Gills thin, crowded, narrow. 



100. A. cerinus Pers. Pileus 2.5-4 cent. (i-iX in O broad, 

 dingy wax-colour, or becoming fuscous, fleshy, convex then flat- 

 tened, obtuse and at length depressed, very opaque, very dry, even 

 and becoming smooth ; flesh thin, but firm, white. Stem 2.5 cent, 

 (i in.) long, 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.) thick, stuffed, equal, fibrilloso- 

 striate, yellow, base smooth (often fuscous). Gills sinuato-ad- 

 nexed, separating, horizontal, plane, very thin and crowded, 2 mm. 

 (i lin.) broad, dark-yellow or wax colour, but the spores wholly 

 white. 



Diminutive, approaching Clitocyb<z in the structure of the stem, but the 

 gills in properly developed specimens are sinuate. There is one form with the 

 pileus repand, 4 cent, (ij^ in.) broad; another smaller, scarcely 2.5 cent (i 

 in.) with the stem fuscous. 



Associated with pine. Glamis, 1877, &c. June-July. 



Pileus generally much paler round the margin. Name cera, wax. Wax- 

 coloured. Pers. Syn. p. 321. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 79. Hym. Eur. p. 64. Icon. 

 t. 39.7. i. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 61. C. Illust. PI. 95. 



101. A. ionides Bull. Pileus about 5 cent. (2 in.) broad, com- 

 monly violet or lilac, fleshy, campanulato-convex then plane, um- 

 bonate, even, becoming somewhat smooth, changing colour, margin 

 at the first flocculose. Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, 4-6 mm. 

 (2-3 lin.) thick, stuffed, elastic, attenuated, fibrillose. Gills emar- 

 ginate with a decurrent tooth, crowded, thin, 6 mm. (3 lin.) broad, 

 eroded, white, becoming paler. 



Very changeable in form and colour ; the smaller it is the darker, commonly 

 becoming violet or lilac, when smaller fuscous-purple or reddish-livid, becom- 

 ing pale with age. 



In moist woods and open pastures. King's Cliffe, 1860. Aug. 



Smell not very decided but pleasant ; rather like that of Lactarius theiogalus. 

 B. dr 1 Br. According to Bulliard the stem is swollen at the base. Name 

 lov, a violet. Violet-coloured. Bull. t. 533. /. 3. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 65. 

 Syst. Myc. i. p. 107. B. & Br. n. 902. C. Hbk. n. 66. Illust. PL 95. 

 A. purpureus Pers. Bolt. t. 41. (a very small form). 



* A. pravus Lasch. Fuscous-reddish. Pileus slightly fleshy, 

 campanulate then expanded, umbonate, silky under a lens. 



