126 AGARICUS. 



Mycena. In woods. Coed Coch, 1880. Autumn. 



It is doubtful if this is anything but one of the many forms of A. purus. 

 Spores 6x4 mk. W.P. Name ^wWf, false. Spurious A. purus. Grevillea, 

 vol. x. p. 147. C. Illust. PL 158. 



259. A. zephirus Fr. Pileus 2.5 cent, (i in.) broad, livid-red- 

 dish, white-flesh-colour, the disc occasionally becoming fuscous, 

 not hygrophanous, somewhat membranaceous, diaphanous, cam- 

 panulate then convex, obtuse, striate to the middle, smooth. 

 Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, 2-4 mm. (1-2 lin.) thick, fistulose, 

 equal or slightly attenuated upwards, round, slightly striate, when 

 young throughout or at least at the apex white-squamnlose, at 

 length naked, rufescent^ incurved and woolly at the base. Gills 

 adnate, somewhat decurrent with a small tooth, broad, but not 

 ventricose, at length separating, widely connected by veins, in 

 groups of 2-4, white. 



Gregarious, rigid, fragile, inodorous. Its habit is in a measure that of A. 

 purus, but it is scarcely rightly allied to that species ; rather allied to A. atro- 

 albus. 



On decayed fir wood. Glamis, 1876. Dec. 



Name e'<fwpos, the west wind. Meaning not apparent. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 

 202. Hym. Eur. p. 133. Icon. t. 78. /. 6. B. & Br. n. 1640. S. Mycol. 

 Scot. n. 146. C. Illust. PL 158. 



260. A. Adonis Bull. Pileus 6-8 mm. (3-4 lin.) high and broad, 

 rose-red, &c., somewhat membranaceous, campanulate, very small 

 in proportion to the stem, minutely and almost obsoletely papillate, 

 even, smooth, slightly pellucid-striate round the margin ; flesh 

 very thin, deeper in colour. Stem 5 cent. (2 in.) long, 12 mm. 

 ()4 in.) thick, fistulose, filiform, flexuous, equal, even, smooth, 

 shining white, pellucid, in no wise viscid. Gills tincinato-adnexed, 

 ascending, very thin, narrow, flesh-coloured or white. 



Much smaller and thinner than A. purus, &c. According to Bulliard it is 

 equally variable in colour as A. purus (A. roseus Bull.) A scarlet form has 

 been noted. 



In woods. Uncommon. Oct.-Nov. 



White, yellowish, orange, or green. M.J.B. Name Adonis, the beloved 

 of Venus. From its beauty. Bull. t. 560. f. 2. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 202. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 134. Berk. Out. p. 123. B. &> Br. n. 1849 (scarlet form). C. Hbk. 

 n. 175. Illust. PL 185. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 147. 



261. A. lineatus Bull. Pileus 6-10 mm. (3-5 lin.) high and 

 broad, sometimes larger, commonly becoming light yellow but vary- 

 ing whitish, remarkably membranaceous, hood-shaped then cam- 

 panulate, obtuse, wholly lineato-sulcate, smooth. Stem 5 cent. (2 



