246 AGARICUS. 



inocybe. cent. (2 in.) long, 6-8 mm. (3-4 lin.) thick, solid, smooth, scarcely 

 fibrillose, whitish above, asruginous at the base, nearly equal. 

 Gills adnate, pallid at length clay-colour. 



Flesh everywhere turning blood-red when touched or wounded. Pileus clad 

 with long darker fibrils. The asruginous colour at the base of the stem pene- 

 trating through the flesh. Spores elliptical, attenuated towards one end, 

 smooth. 



On lawn. Credinhill Court, 1882. Oct. 



Name ai/xa/crds, stained with blood. Of the flesh. Grevillea, vol. xi. p. 

 70. C. Illust. PL 390. 



III. RIMOSI. Pileus longitudinally fibrous, soon cracked, &>c. 



545. A. fibrosus Sow. White. Pileus fleshy, thin, obtusely 

 campanulate, silky-even, at length cracked, margin bent inwards, 

 flexuous. Stem solid, long, striate, ^<2/y-flocculose at the apex. 

 Gills free, crowded, linear-lanceolate, whitish-pallid. 



Pileus as much as 7.5 cent. (3 in.) broad. Stem 7.5-10 cent. (3-4 in.) long, 

 6-8 mm. (3-4 lin.) thick. Gills about 4 mm. (2 lin.) broad. A remarkable 

 species, taller than the following, stinking, flesh white. It varies with the 

 pileus becoming yellow. 



In fir woods. Keynston Wood, Dorset, 1808. July-Sept. 



Spores 11x7 mk. W.G.S. ; pruniform, echinulate, 9 mk. Q. Name 

 fibra, fibre. Fibrous. Sow. t. 44. Fr. Hym. Bur. p. 231. Berk. Out. p. 154. 

 C. Hbk. n. 326. Illust. PL 454. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 293. A. repandus Fr. 

 Monogr. i. p. 341, &c. 



546. A. phaeocephalus Bull. Pileus bay-brown, fuliginous, 

 fleshy, conico-campanulate, umbonate, repand, squamulose. Stem 

 solid, somewhat bulbous, of the same colour as the pileus above, 

 white below, villous. Gills free, arcuate, light yellow then earth- 

 coloured. 



A tall robust species. 

 In mixed wood. Rare. Oct. 



Pileus about 7.5 cent, (sin.) broad. Stem 10 cent. (4 in.) long. Spores 

 bright ferruginous. In 1877 I found perfect specimens which fully confirmed 

 Berkeley's opinion that the species is a true Inocybe. The doubt expressed 

 by Fries is therefore set at rest. Name $aios, dusky ; Ke<f>a.\rj, head. Bull. t. 

 555. /. i. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 231. B. &> Br. n. 1233, 1760. S. Mycol. Scot, 

 n. 294. C. Illust. PL 396. 



547. A. fastigiatus Schasff. Pileus yellow-fuscous, occasion- 

 ally fuscous-brown, fleshy, conical then campanulate, margin at 

 the first bent inwards, then repand, but varying regular, acute, 

 longitudinally fibrillose and cracked, rarely adpressedly scaly ; 



