234 AGARICUS. 



Pholiota. On sawdust and fallen trunks. Coed Coch, 1879. Oct. 



Name curva, curve ; pes, foot. With curved stem. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 

 316. Hym. Eur. p. 223. Icon. t. 104. f. 3. B. & Br. n. 1864. C. Illust. 

 PI. 370. b. A. muricatus b. Syst. Myc. i. p. 244 Batt. t. 22. A. (with the 

 elongated stem somewhat naked). 



*** Hygrophani. Gills cinnamon, fy*c. 



515. A. dissimulans B. & Br. Pileus about 2.5 cent, (i in.) 

 broad, at first lurid, at length becoming pale or whitish, campanu- 

 late, very obtuse, scarcely slightly viscid, hygrophanous, at length 

 flattened, involute at the margin. Stem fistulose with transverse 

 dissepiments, thickened downwards, shining white, cottony at the 

 base. Ring erect, for the most part persistent. Gills sinuato- 

 adnate, at length decurrent, pallid, clay-colour. 



Pileus at first of the colour of A. erebius. 



On sticks of hawthorn and sloe. Hothorpe, 1881. 



Name dissimulo, to dissemble. From its appearing like A. erebius. 



B. & Br. n. 1940. C. Illust. PL 371. 



516. A. Cookei Fr. Pileus 5 cent. (2 in.) broad, dirty pale- 

 yellowish, fleshy, conical then convex, viscid when moist, sprinkled 

 with darker adpressed scales. Stem 5 cent. (2 in.) long, 4 mm. 

 (2 lin.) thick, solid, equal, fibrillose, rufous brown below. Ring 

 very, tender. Gills adnate, slightly ventricose, at length brown. 



Nearest to A. subluteus Fl. Dan. 



In damp places among grass. Dinmore, &c. Oct. 



Name after M. C. Cooke. Fr. in litt. Greuillea, vol. v. p. 56. t. 82. f. i. 



C. Illust. PL 354. 



517. A. subluteus Fl. Dan. Pileus yellow, fleshy, thin, flat- 

 tened, umbonate, squamulose, margin striate when moist. Stem 

 stuffed, smooth, yellow, thickened at the base, ring spreading. 

 Gills decurrent, crowded, cinnamon. 



Somewhat caespitose, 7.5 cent. (3 in.) The scales on the pileus are darker. 

 On grassy ground. Faldonside, 1884. Oct. 



The habit is peculiar, but the colour of the specimens was paler than 

 described by Fries. The stem was long (10-12.5 cent., 4-5 in.), comparatively 

 thin, and somewhat irregularly flexuous. Name sub, and luteus, yellow. 

 Yellowish. Fl. Dan. t. 1192. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 224. S. Mycol. Scot. Supp. 

 Scot. Nat. 1885, p. 23. 



518. A. confragosus Fr. Pileus about 4 cent. (i> in.) broad, 

 brick-red or cinnamon-rufous when moist, tawny when dry, hygro- 



