308 AGARICUS. 



Psaliota. - Very striking, 7.5-10 cent. (3-4111.) high. The pileus and the white stem 

 become spotted-blood-red when touched. The stem when young is adpress- 

 edly squamulose below, when full grown mealy, becoming smooth. 



In woods. Lilleshall, Salop, &c. Nov. 



Pileus 10 cent. (4 in.) across; stem 10 cent. (4 in.) high, 2.5 cent. (T in.) 

 thick, B. & Br. Name ai^oppot'Ses ((/>A.e'j3es) veins which discharge blood, 

 haemorrhoids. Kalchbr. Hung. t. i8./. i. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 281. B, &= Br. 

 n. 1534. 



** MINORES. Not used as food, pileus thinly fleshy. 



691. A. comtulus Fr. Pileus 2.5-4 cent. (i-iX in -) broad, 

 yellowish-white, slightly fleshy, convex then plane, obtuse, ad- 

 pressedly fibrilloso-silky, becoming even; flesh thin, soft, of the 

 same colour as the pileus. Stem 5 cent. (2 in.) long, 4-6 mm. 

 (2-3 lin.) thick, hollow, stuffed with floccules when young, some- 

 what attenuated, even, smooth, white, becoming somewhat light 

 yellow. Ring medial, torn, fugacious, of the same colour. Gills 

 rounded-free behind, crowded, soft, broader in tortf., flesh-colour 

 then rose, not fuscous-flesh-colour except when old. 



Very much allied to A. campestris, but constantly distinct in its more beau- 

 tifully coloured gills. 



In woods, &c. Coed Coch, 1880. Autumn. 



Name comptus, gaily adorned. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 407. Hym. Ezir. p. 

 281. Icon. t. iso.f. i. B. & Br. n. 1874. 



692. A. echinatus Roth. Pileus 2.5-5 cent. (1-2 in.) broad, 

 of a peculiar fuliginous colour, slightly fleshy, camp emulate, ob- 

 tuse, at the first jloccoso-pulvcrulent and somewhat continuous, 

 then densely and adpressedly rivuloso-scaly, without striae; flesh 

 thin, whitish. Stem 4-5 cent. (iX~ 2 in-) l n &' 2 ~4 mm - ( l ~ 2 ^ n O 

 thick, firm, fistulose, with a lax white arachnoid web internally, 

 otherwise externally and internally cinnabar-purple, below the 

 ring densely covered over with Jlocculoso-pulverulent mouse-col- 

 oured sootiness which can be rubbed off, equal, naked above the 

 ring. Ring floccoso-membranaceous, externally sprinkled with 



fuliginous dust, soon torn, appendiculate at the margin ; very 

 beautifully striate above, becoming purple-whitish. Gills free, 

 reaching a slightly prominent but little elevated collar, crowded, 

 narrow, rarely exceeding 2 mm. (i lin.) broad, very beautifully 

 cinnabar-purple ', the edge which is quite entire of the same 

 colour. 



Gregarious, caespitose ; odour of cucumber. The soil is rolled together 

 with the white mycelium in the form of a ball at the base of the stem. When 



