66 AGARICUS. 



Tricholoma. Spores ellipsoid-sphaeroid, 7-8 x 5-6 mk. K. Name humilis, low. 

 Dwarf in -stature. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 95. Hym. Eur. p. 75. Berk. Out. p. 

 106. C. Hbk. n. 79. Illust. PL 99, 263 A. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 78. Buxb. 

 Cent. iv. t. 32. A. blandus Berk. Eng. FL p. 20. Var. blandus C. Illust. 

 PL 263. B. 



126. A. exscissus Fr. Pileus 2.5 cent, (i in.) broad, mouse- 

 colour or fuscous-cinereous, not changing colour when dry, but 

 shining, slightly fleshy, campanulate when young, soon plane, with 

 a prominent umbo, even, smooth ; flesh thin, white. Stem 2.5-5 

 cent. (1-2 in.) long, 2-4 mm. (1-2 lin.) thick, solid, thin, wholly 

 equal, polished, very smooth, slightly shining, shining white. 

 Gills emarginate, crowded, linear, not beyond 2 mm. (i lin.) 

 broad, shining white. 



Very regular, in dry weather sprinkled with the pulverulent veil, but never 

 silky. Very closely allied to A. humilis, &c. , although by habit and thinness 

 it appears at first sight to be widely removed from them. 



In pastures, &c. Cromer, 1882. May. 



Name excindo, to tear out. Perhaps in the same sense as excisus. Of 

 the gills. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 95. Hym. Eur. p. 75. Icon. t. 44. /. 2. C. Illust. 

 PL 171. 



127. A. subpulverulentus Pers. Pileus about 4 cent. (i% in.) 

 broad, becoming livid when fresh, fleshy, convex then plane or 

 depressed, even, with innate pruinose dew, becoming hoary white, 

 the slight margin, which exceeds the gills, inflexed. Stem 5 cent. 

 (2 in.) long, 6 mm. (3 lin.) thick, solid, equal, smooth, somewhat 

 striate, here and there ascending, under a lens obsoletely pruinate 

 at the apex. Gills rounded (without a tooth), crowded, narrow, 

 white. 



Firm ; flesh hygrophanous. The pileus is not occasionally pulverulent as in 

 previous species, though it becomes hoary with innate pruina. 



In pastures and woods. Frequent. Aug.-Oct. 



Spores 3X4mk. W.G.S.; pruniform, granular, 8x9 mk. Q. Name sub, 

 and pulvis, dust. Somewhat powdered. Pers. Myc. Eur. 3. p. 221. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 76. Berk. Out. p. 107. C. Hbk. n. 80. Illust. PL 219. S. Mycol. 

 Scot. n. 79. Hussey ii. t. 39. 



** Gills becoming 'violet, grey, fuliginous. 



128. A. sordidus Fr. Pileus 2.5-7.5 cent. (1-3 in.) broad, livid- 

 lilac becoming violet- fuscous or violet-flesh-colour when young, 

 changing colour when old, somewhat fleshy, campanulato-convex 

 then plane or depressed, somewhat umbonate, smooth ; margin 

 when full grown slightly striate. Stem about 5 cent. (2 in.) long, 

 6 mm. (3 lin.) and more thick, stuffed, pliant, commonly thickened 



