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AGARICUS. 



Fiammuia. Subgenus XX1L PLAMMULA (flamma, a flame). Fr. Syst. 

 Myc. i. p. 250. Veil fibrillose or none. Stem fleshy -fibroiis, not 

 mealy upwards. Pileus fleshy, mar- 

 gin at first involute. Gills decurrent 

 or adnate without a sinus, commonly 

 quite entire, of one colour. A few 

 grow on the ground, the greater num- 

 ber on wood, passing into Pholiotas. 

 Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 244. 



If Fiammuia were restricted to spe- 

 cies with truly decurrent gills it would 

 correspond with Clitocybe. Spores 

 mostly pure ferruginous ; some are 

 fuscous - ferruginous, others tawny- 

 ochraceous. The species appear late 

 in the season. Taste insipid or bitter. 



XXIV. Agaric** (Fiammuia) N nG edible 



JlavidTis. One-half natural size. I. Qymnoti (yv/x^os, naked). Veil none ; 

 pileus dry, most frequently squamulose. 

 Spores ferruginous, in A. decipiens fuscous-ferruginous. 



II. Lubrici (lubricus, slimy). Pileus covered with a continuous, somewhat 

 separable, smooth, -viscous pellicle ; cortina manifest, fibrillose. Spores ferru- 

 ginous, not tawny, but fuscous-ferruginous in A. carbonarius. Gregarious, 

 growing on the ground, rarely on wood. They correspond with the Hebelo- 

 mata, but are easily distinguished by the gills not being sinuate, by the more 

 viscous pellicle being somewhat separable, by the apex of the stem not being 

 pruinose, and by the odour, &c. 



III. Udi (udus, moist). Cuticle of the pileus continuous, not distinct nor 

 separable, smooth (here and there with a superficial covering) moist or a little 

 viscid in rainy -weather. Cortina manifest, appendiculate. Spores not tawny 

 nor ochraceous. Allied to the Pholiotce, caespitose, growing on wood, most 

 distinct from each other. 



IV. Sapinei (sapinus, pine). Pileus scarcely pelliculose (the flesh, however, 

 scissile or torn above into scales), not viscous, at first somewhat incrusted. 

 Veil fibrilloso-adpressed to the stem, not furnished with an appendiculate cor- 

 tina, almost none, or forming an annular zone on the stem. They are distin- 

 guished, however, by the gills being light yellow or yellow then tawny, and by 

 the ochraceous or tawny spores. Somewhat caespitose, always on pine, but 

 here and there on the ground among pine-branches, forming a series of species 

 in very close sequence, but yet very distinct. 



V. Sericelli (slightly silky). Furnished with a cortina, cuticle of the pileus 

 slightly silky, dry or at the first viscid. 



I. GYMNOTI. Veil none; pileus dry, &>c. 



589. A. gymnopodius Bull. Dark ferruginous. Pileus 5-7.5 

 cent. (2-3 in.) broad, fleshy, campanulato-convex, squamulose. 



