142 AGARICUS. 



Mycena. front disappearing short of the slight margin of the pileus, whitish 

 and wholly of the same colour at the edge. 



Ccespitose (very many of the stems conjoined and strigose at the base), firm, 

 stature almost that of A. galericulatus, wholly abounding with dark blood- 

 coloured juice. 



On stumps. Frequent. Sept. 



Spores sphaeroid-ellipsoid, 10x6-7 m k. K- Name atjuio, blood; novs, a 

 foot. From the juice of the stem. Pers. Obs. 2. p. 56. Syn. p. 379. Fr. 

 Monogr. i. p. 224. Hym. Eur. p. 148. Icon. t. 83. f. i. B. 6 Br. n. 991. 

 C. Hbk. n. 195. Illust. PL 162. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 174. 



299. A. cruentus Fr. Pileus 6-10 mm. (3-5 lin.) broad, bay- 

 brown or fuscous then red, becoming pale, somewhat membran- 

 aceous, conical then campanulate, obtuse, striate, smooth, margin 

 quite entire. Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, scarcely 2 mm. (i 

 lin.) thick, fistulose, slightly firm, tense and straight, even, smooth 

 (never villous-pulverulent), paler than the pileus, villous-rooted at 

 the base, distilling a dark-red juice when broken. Gills wholly 

 adnate, crowded, linear, whitish, the edge, which is quite entire, of 

 the same colour. 



Odour not remarkable. Always solitary ; not flaccid. Intermediate between 



A. hcematopus and A. sanguinolentus. 



In -pine woods. Rare. Sept. 



Margin of pileus inflexed ; substance at first rather thick in proportion ; 

 stem rigid, strigose at the base ; gills obtuse in front, shortly adnate. B. & 

 Br. Spores 6-8 x 4 mk. B. Name cruor, gore. From the red juice. Fr. 

 Monogr. i. p. 225. Hym. Eur. p. 148. Icon. t. 83.^ 2. Berk. Out. p. 127. 



B. & Br. n. 992. C. Hbk. n. 196. Illust. PL 162. 5. Mycol. Scot. n. 175. 

 Sow. t. 385. / 2, 3. 



300. A. sanguinolentus A. & S. Pileus 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.) 

 broad, pallid reddish, becoming fuscous, umbo and strias com- 

 monly darker, very thinly memdranaceous, campanulato-convex or 

 hemispherical, papillate, smooth, striate to the umbo. Stem 5-7.5 

 cent. (2-3 in.) long, fistulose, weak, flaccid, almost capillary, mod- 

 erately tough, naked, smooth, pallid, somewhat fibrillose at the 

 base. Gills adnate, linear, somewhat distant, the alternate ones 

 shorter, paler than the pileus, the edge black-purple. 



The stem is elongated among Sphagna to as much as 10-12.5 cent. (4-5 in.). 

 Gregarious. So very tender and easily withering that it is commonly over- 

 looked. The thinnest of this group and inclining to Calodontes in the edge of 

 the gills being black-purple, but placed in this section on account of the stem 

 distilling a pale-reddish juice. The edge of the gills always safely distin- 

 guishes it from A. debilis to which it is very like. 



In woods among leaves especially fir. Common. July-Oct. 



