196 AGARICUS. 



Entoloma. Not hygrophanous ; widely removed from A. majalis ; rather allied to A, 



sinuatus, A. prunuloides, or A.fertilis. Pileus sprinkled with atoms of soil. 



On naked ground, and river sand. Rare. June. 



Name after W. W. Saunders. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 192. S. Mycol. Scot. 

 Supp. Scot. Nat. 1883, p. 30. C. lllust. PI. 306. A. majalis Saund. &> Sm. 

 t. 46. 



429. A. fertilis Berk. Pileus 10 cent. (4 in.) and more broad, 

 pinkish-buff, fleshy, obtuse, dry, smooth, pulverulento-squamulose. 

 Stem fibrillose, somewhat squamulose, somewhat bulbous. Gills 

 adnexed, flesh-colour. 



Smell like that of new meal. Exactly the plant of Bulliard. 

 In woods. Rare. Autumn. 



Name -fertilis, prolific. Berk. Out. p. 142. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 193. C. 

 lllust. PL 316. A. phonospermus Bull. t. 590, 547. /. i. 



430. A. jubatus Fr. Pileus 2.5-5 cent - C 1 - 2 in -) and mor e 

 broad, mouse-colour, not hygrophanous, somewhat fleshy, cam- 

 panulate then expanded and flattened, umbonate, floccoso-scaly 

 and fibrillose on the cuticle ; flesh thin, of the same colour as the 

 pileus, and easily scissile. Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, 4-6 

 mm. (2-3 lin.) thick, fleshy-fibrous, though rigid, fragile, hollow, 

 equal, becoming fuscous, and clothed with fuliginous fibrils. 

 Gills slightly adnexed, somewhat emarginate, easily separating, 

 crowded, ventricose, at first dark fuliginous (not fuscous-grey), 

 then becoming beautifully purple-fuliginous. 



Very distinguished ; not nearly allied to any. Inodorous. 

 In old pastures and mossy places. Uncommon. July-Oct. 



According to Worthington Smith it grows in dense clusters, but I have 

 never seen more than two or three growing together. Spores extremely ir- 

 regular, 7x11 mk. IV.G.S. ; 10-12 mk. Q. Name jubatus, maned or 

 crested. From the fibrillose pileus. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 272. Hym. Eur. p. 

 193. Icon. t. 92. /i. B. &> Br. n. 1224. C. Hbk. n. 256. lllust. PL 317. 

 -5. Mycol. Scot. n. 242. 



431. A. resutus Fr. Pileus 2.5 cent, (i in.) broad, becom- 

 ing fuscous, disc darker, slightly fleshy, convex, somewhat obtuse, 

 never umbilicate, the whole densely fioccoso-scaly, sometimes 

 with darker adpressed scales, sometimes becoming even, longitu- 

 dinally fibrillose. Stem 4-5 cent. (i%-2 in.) and more long, 

 2 mm. (i lin.) and more thick, wholly fibrous, soft, stuffed, at 

 length hollow, equal, externally polished, smooth, slightly striate, 

 somewhat grey. Gills adnexed, very ventricose, almost free, 4 

 mm. (2 lin.) broad, somewhat plane, rather crowded, rather thick, 

 grey, at the first darker. 



