94 AGARICUS. 



Clitocybe. Very like A.fragrans, but inodorous; colour purer white and stem thinner. 

 Less watery than others of this group. 



Among leaves. Ascot, 1873, &c. Oct. 



Name angustus, narrow. From the very narrow gills. Lasck. n. 523. 

 Fr. Monogr. \. p. 136. Hym. Eur. p. 105. Icon. t. 59. /. 2. C. Illust. PL 

 125. B. 6 s Br. n. 1407. 



190. A. obsoletus Batsch. Pileus 2.5 cent, (i in.) or a little 

 more broad, at first grey but soon turning whitish, clay-white when 

 dry, sometimes inclining to flesh -colour, somewhat fleshy, soft, 

 convex or gibbous then plane and depressed, even, smooth. Stem 

 5 cent. (2 in.) long, 6-8 mm. (3-4 lin.) thick, stuffed then soon hol- 

 low, elastic, tough, at first round, then often compressed, but never 

 flexuous, even, smooth, very obsoletely pruinate at the apex, whit- 

 ish. Gills obtusely adnate, almost rounded behind, then adnato- 

 decurrent, broad, crowded, grey-whitish. 



Gregarious, obsoletely fragrant. Intermediate between A. metachrous and 

 A. fragrans. 



Among grass and leaves. Coed Coch, &c. Oct.-Nov. 



Odour varying from that of bitter almonds to that of aniseed. B. & Br. 

 Name obsoletus, obsolete, faint. The term obsoletus used by Batsch does not 

 refer to an odour less than that of A. fragrans, but to the pallid tint as com- 

 pared with his A. obsolescens. B. & Br. Batsch f. 103. Fr. Monogr. \. p. 136. 

 Hym. Eur. p. 105. B. & Br. n. 1738, 1929. C. Illust. PL 233. Fr. Dan. 



t. 2021. 



VI. VERSIFORMES. 

 * Pileus dirty-coloured, &c. 



191. A. ectypus Fr. Pileus about 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) broad, 

 dingy or light-yellow-honey colour, then rufescent and when rot- 

 ting almost brown, fleshy, somewhat thin, convex then rather 

 plane or depressed, streaked at the disc with innate fibrils radiat- 

 ing from the centre, as if sprinkled with soot or squamulose ; mar- 

 gin very thin, striate. Stem 5-10 cent. (2-4 in.) long, 6-10 mm. 

 (3-5 lin.) thick, hollow, elastic, somewhat bulbous or equal, fibril- 

 lose, becoming dingy light yellow, soon olivaceous, becoming black 

 at the base. Gills adnate, also decurrent with a rather delicate 

 tooth, distant, connected by veins, white, soon becoming pale, then 

 spotted-rufous, somewhat mealy with the plentiful spores. 



The colour is both variable and changeable with age. Gregarious ; some- 

 times many are joined in a caespitose manner at the base. Odour at first 

 pleasant, of anise, at length foetid. Of the nature of A. melleus which it 

 approaches in the gills being somewhat mealy with the spores as well as in 

 colour, but without the trace of a veil. 



