224 AGARICUS. 



Pholiota. is a smaller form (A. macropus Pers. ) in pine woods, pileus even and paler; 

 stem 7.5 cent. (3 in.) long, and without a tuberous base; ring oblique and 

 often incomplete. 



In woods. Uncommon. Sept.-Oct. 



Spores 10 mk. B. & Br. ; 12x4 mk. W.P. ; sphseroid-ellipsoid, uniguttate, 

 11-12x8-9 m k. K. Name capero, to wrinkle. From the wrinkled pileus. 

 Pers. Syn. p. 273. Hym. Eur. p. 215. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 269. C. Illust. 

 PI. 348. Fl. Dan. t. 1675. Krombh. t. 73. /. 10-12. Gonn. &= Rab. iv. t. 5. 

 Cortinarius Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 3. Berk. Out. p. 183. C. Hbk. n. 486. Var. 

 macropus B. & Br. n. 1939*. 



492. A. terrigenus Fr. Pileus 4-7.5 cent. (1^-3 in.) broad, 

 dingy yellow, fleshy, moderately compact, convex or on account 

 of the involute margin lens-shaped, then at length flattened, ob- 

 tuse, by no means viscid, adpressedly silky with fibrils, and fibril- 

 loso-scaly towards the margin ; flesh yellow. Stem 5 cent. (2 in.) 

 long, 6-12 mm. (3-6 lin.) thick, fleshy fibrous, stuffed, then also 

 hollow, equal (at least not thickened at the base), becoming dingy 

 yellow, squarrose in the form of small ferruginous warts and 

 fibrillose. The veil forming a continuous web from the involute 

 margin of the pileus to the stem, then disrupted, remaining partly 

 annular on the stem and partly appendiculate on the margin of 

 the pileus. Gills wholly adnate and decurrent with a tooth, not 

 sinuate, scarcely crowded, about 4 mm. (2 lin.) broad, pallid light 

 yellow then olivaceous-ferruginous. 



The colour of the pileus varies rufescent. Veil fugacious in old specimens. 

 Warts similar to those of the stem, easily separating, occur towards the mar- 

 gin of the pileus. There are smaller forms with the veil obliterated which 

 may be easily mistaken for Cortinarii, as C. venatus and C. depexus. 



On old earthy stumps. Kenmore, 1877, &c. Aug.-Nov. 



Name terra, earth ; gigno, to bear. Growing on the ground. Fr. Monogr. 

 \. p. 304. Hym. Eur. p. 215. Icon. t. 103. B. & Br. n. 1652. S. Mycol. 

 Scot. n. 270. C. Illust. PL 349. Kalchbr. Hung. t. 14. f. i. 



493. A. erebius Fr. Pileus 5 cent. (2 in.) broad, lurid or be- 

 coming ferruginous-lurid when moist, becoming pale (ochraceous- 

 clay) when dry, slightly fleshy, convex then flattened, smooth, 

 almost viscid, hygrophanous, striate at the margin when dry. 

 Stem 5 cent. (2 in.) long, 6 mm. (3 lin.) thick, hollow, 'equal, 

 smooth but somewhat striate, becoming pale. Ring superior 

 (apical), campanulate, sulcate, white. Gills adnate, somewhat dis- 

 tant, pallid then dingy cinnamon. 



Many of the stems often cohering at the base, where they are squamulose. 

 Pileus often slightly wrinkled. Gregarious, fragile. 



In woods, chiefly under beech. Uncommon. Aug.-Oct. 

 Name "Epe/Sos, dark or gloomy looking. From the lurid colour. Fr. 



