256 AGARICUS. 



Hebeloma. In mixed woods. Common. July-Oct. 



A perfect form has occurred with a distinct membranaceous ring, and 

 above the viscid coat of the pileus there was a circle of distinct floccose scales, 

 B. &> Br. Spores 11x8 mk. W.G.S. Name for fastidibilis, fastidio, to 

 loathe. From the disagreeable smell. Fr. Monogr. i. /. 329. Hym. Eur. p. 

 237. Icon. t. in./. 2. B. &= Br. n. 905, 2004*. C. Hbk. n. 313. Illust. PL 

 406. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 307. A. gilvus Schceff. t. 221. A. obesus Schum. 

 Batt. t. xv. D. B. pileus purple-brown Paul. t. 53. /. 2? 



569. A. glutinosus Lind. Pileus about 7.5 cent. (3 in.) broad, 

 yellow-white, the disc darker, fleshy, convex then plane, regular, 

 obtuse, with a tenacious viscous gluten, and slimy in wet 

 weather, sprinkled with white superficial squamules j flesh whitish, 

 becoming light-yellow. Stem 7.5 cent. (3 in.) long, stuffed, firm, 

 somewhat bulbous, white-squamulose and fibrillose, and white- 

 mealy at the apex, often strigose at the base, at length ferrugin- 

 ous within. Partial veil manifest, in the form of a cortina. Gills 

 sinuato-adnate, somewhat decurrent, crowded, broad, pallid then 

 light yellowish, at length clay-cinnamon. 



Odour peculiar, mild. 



On branches and among leaves, oak and beech. Frequent. 

 Sept.-Dec. 



So remarkably like A. lentus that I am inclined to think they are the same. 

 See remarks under that species. Spores 5x4 mk. W.P. ; pruniform, 7 mk. 

 Q. Name gluten, glue. Glutinous. Lindgr. Bot. Not. 1845, p. 199. Fr. 

 Monogr. i. p. 324. Hym. Eur. p. 238. Icon. t. 112. f. i. S. Mycol. Scot. 

 Supp. Scot. Nat. 1885, p. 24. C. Illust. PI. 430. 



570. A. testaceus Batsch. Pileus 4 cent. (\y 2 in.) broad, 

 brick-pale but more frequently ochraceous-tan or tan, somewhat 

 opaque, fleshy, somewhat thin, campanulato- convex, then flat- 

 tened, regular and well formed, obtuse, even, smooth, obsoletely 

 viscid or dry; flesh watery, hygrophanous. Stem 7.5 cent. (3 in.) 

 long, 6 mm. (3 lin.) thick, somewhat fragile, hollow, solid how- 

 ever and somewhat thickened at the base, fibrillose, becoming 

 pale-white, white-mealy at the apex, somewhat squamulose. Gills 

 attenuato-free, lanceolate, very thin, very crowded, scarcely 2 mm. 

 (i lin.) broad, at first ascending, pallid then clay-colour, some- 

 what ferruginous. 



Cortina thin, fugacious. Odour weak, of radish. 



In woods and meadows. Frequent. Sept.-Oct. 



Name testa, a brick. Brick-coloured. Batsch f. 198. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 

 329. Hym. Eur. p. 238. Berk. Out. p. 157. C. Hbk. n. 314. Illust. PI. 

 408. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 308. Klotsch. t. 387. 



