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AGARICUS. 



Inocybe. Allied to A. sindonius, 



On the ground. Street, Somerset, 1871. Oct. 



Name after J. A. Clark. B. & Br. n. 1345. C. Illust. PL 429. B. 



561. A. geophyllus Sow. Pileus 12 mm. (% in.) and more 

 high and broad, normally while, somewhat fleshy, conical then 



expanded, umbonate, dry, becoming silky- 

 even, then covered with longitudinal 

 fibrils from the cuticle gaping open ; 

 flesh white. Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 

 in.) long, 2-4 more rarely 6 mm. (1-2, 

 3 lin.) thick, stuffed, slightly firm, equal, 

 commonly tense and straight, smooth, 

 white or tinged with the colour of 

 the pileus and white-mealy at the apex. 

 Cortina fibril lose. Gills almost free, 

 rather broad, ventricose, crowded, 

 whitish then becoming clay-fuscous, at 

 length earth-coloured. 



Thinner than A. sindonius, A. lucifugus, 

 &c., gregarious; odour earthy. The pileus 

 varies in colour, violaceous-lilac (whitish when 

 full grown), becoming fuscous, brick-red, be- 

 coming yellow. 



On the ground in woods. Common. July-Nov. 



The variety lateritius is a remarkable one. It is not altogether red but 

 stained persistently, retaining the colour when dry. Jedburgh, &c. Name yn, 

 earth ; </>wAAov, a leaf. From the earthy colour of the gills. Sow. t. 124. Fr. 

 Monogr. i. p. 346. Hym. Eiir. p. 235. Berk. Out. p. 156. B. & Br. n. 

 1234*. C. Hbk. n. 336. Illust. PL 401. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 304. A. 

 argiilaceus Pers. Ic. pict. t. 14. /. 2. A. affinis Pers. Ic. descr. t. i. /. i. 

 Bull. t. 522. f. 2, too thin. 



562. A. scabellus Fr. Pileus 12 mm. (X in.) high and a little 

 more broad, normally fuscous or fuscous-rufescent, slightly 

 fleshy, conical then expanded, umbonate, silky-fibrillose, at length 

 also torn into scales outside the even umbo ; flesh dingy. Stem 

 4 cent. (\ l / z in.) long, 1-2 mm. (Yz-\ lin.) thick, stuffed, thin, 

 equal, tense and straight or flexuous, smooth, rufescent or becom- 

 ing pale, obsoletely pruinose at the apex. Cortina not manifest. 

 Gills adnexed, somewhat ventricose (but varying linear and 

 narrow), more or less crowded, at the first not white but dingy, 

 becoming fuscous. 



Stem sometimes hollow. Stature of A. geophyllus, but very much thinner, 

 gregarious, inodorous ; the colour, which in A. geophyllus is typically white or 

 lilac, is in this species fuscous or rufescent. A very changeable species. 



XXII. Agciricus {Inocybe) geo- 

 phyllus. One-half natural size. 



