HYPORHODII. 



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distinct from the stem. Chamasota Smith in Seem. Journ. 1870. Annularia. 

 Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 184. 



No British species. 



XIII. Agariciis (Plnteus) cervi- 

 nus. One-fourth natural size. 



Subgenus XII. PLUTEUS (piuteus, a pent-house). Fr. Epicr. piuteus. 

 p. 140. Rosy-spored, without a volva or a ring. Hymenophore 

 distinct from the stem, and hence the 

 gills are rounded behind and free 

 (never emarginate), cohering at the 

 first, white then flesh-coloured, but in 

 one or two instances often tinged with 

 yellow. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 185. 



Piuteus agrees in all except the 

 volva with Volvaria. If the pellicle 

 of the pileus, which is often fibrillose, 

 flocculose, or pruinose, is to be con- 

 sidered a concrete universal veil, it 

 would be analogous with Lepiota. 

 The apex of the stem which is sep- 

 arate from the flesh of the pileus is 

 inserted in it like a peg, which is the 

 case in most of the Lepiotce. The 

 species grow on or near trunks, ap- 

 pearing early, and lasting longer than the Volvarice. None are 

 edible; taste insipid, smell unpleasant. 



* Cuticle of the pileus separating into fibrils orflocci. 

 ** Pileus pruinate with atoms, somewhat pulverulent. 

 ** Pileus naked, smooth. 



* Cuticle of the pileus separating into fibrils orflocci. 



409. A. cervinus Schaeff. Pileus 7-5 cent. (3 in.) and more 

 broad, fleshy, somewhat fragile, campanulate then expanded, ob- 

 tuse, when young covered over with a continuous pellicle, which is 

 toughly viscid in wet weather, becoming even, smooth, fuliginous; 

 this, however, is gradually broken up into fibrils or squamules on 

 the pileus, which becomes pale and is often streaked, margin entire 

 and naked; flesh soft, white. Stem 7.5 cent. (3 in.) and more 

 long, 12 mm. (}4 in.) and more thick, solid, firm, equal, white, but 

 externally reticulated or striate with black fibrils. Gills rounded 

 behind, free and quite separate from the stem, crowded, ventri- 

 cose, somewhat crenulated, white then flesh-colour, of the same 

 colour at the edge. 



