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AGARICUS. 



Leptonia. In grassy places. Ascot. 



Name ne, not ; frendo, to bite. From the edge of the gills being without 

 teeth. Contrasted with A. serrulatus. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 290. Hym. Eur. 

 p. 205. B. 6" Br. n. 1759. Krombh, t. 2. /. 22 ? 



XVII. Agaricus (Noianea) pas- 

 cuus. One-third natural size. 



Noianea. Subgenus XVI. NOLANEA (nola, a little bell). Fr. Syst. Myc. 



i. p. 204. Rosy-spored. Stem fistulose, the tube more rarely 

 stuffed with a pith, cartilaginous. 

 Pileus somewhat membranaceous, 

 campanulate, somewhat papillate, stri- 

 ate and sometimes even, sometimes 

 also clothed with flocci, margin 

 straight and at the first pressed to 

 the stem, and not involute. Gills free 

 or adfixed and not decurrent. Fr. 

 Hym. Eur. p. 206. 



Noianea agrees with Leptonia and 

 Eccilia among the pink-spored spe- 

 cies. It corresponds with Mycena, 

 Galera, and Psathyra. Several En- 

 tolomata are nearly allied. The spe- 

 cies are thin and slender, commonly 

 inodorous and fragile, though some 

 of them are tough. Growing on the 



ground in summer and autumn. 



* Gills grey or fuscous. Pileus dark-coloured, hygrophanous. 



** Gills becoming yellow, or rufescent. 



*** Gills shining white then rosy. Hygrophanous. 



**** Gills whitish. Pileus not hygrophanous. 



* Gills grey or fuscous, &*c. 



467. A. pascuus Pers. Pileus from scarcely 2.5 to 7.5 cent. 

 (1-3 in.) broad, fuliginous when moist, hoary or becoming pale 

 fawn when dry, membranaceous, somewhat acute, conical then 

 expanded, but not flattened, commonly umbonate, smooth, striate 

 when moist, even, silky-shining when dry. Stem commonly 5-7.5 

 cent. (2-3 in.) long, 2-4 mm. (1-2 lin.) thick (sometimes com- 

 pressed), fistulose, soft, equal, silky-fibrous or when more fully 

 grown fibrillose, striate, commonly pallid fuliginous. Gills very 

 much attenuated behind, almost free, thin, crowded, ventricose or 

 rather broader and obtuse towards the margin, grey or whitish- 

 fuliginous, sprinkled but not coloured with the rosy spores. 



