AGARICUS. 



Stropharia. umbo, minutely rivulose, adorned with superficial evanescent 

 snow-white scales; cuticle not peeling off. Stem 7.5 cent. (3 in.) 

 long, 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.) thick, hollow, cylindrical, snow-white, 

 pulverulent above, brownish with silky transverse scales below. 

 Ring superior, deflexed. Gills adnate, sending a line down the 

 stem, but not truly decurrent, pallid then brown, transversely 

 striate. 



Spores dark brown. Allied apparently to A. caput-Meduscr. It has a close 

 analogy with A. (Zgerita, &c. 



On fir-stumps. Rare. Sept. -Nov. 



Name after Archibald Jerdon. B. &> Br. n. 913. t. 14. /. 2. C. Hbk. n. 

 393. J). Mycol. Scot. n. 376. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 289. 



Hyphoioma. Subgenus XXXI. HYPHOLOMA (fy>7j, web ; \S>p.a, fringe). 

 Fr. Syst. Myc. i. p. 287. Hymenophore continuous with the stem. 



Veil woven into a web which adheres 

 to the margin of the pileus. Pileus 

 more or less fleshy, the margin at the 

 first incurved. Gills adnate or sin- 

 uate. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 290. 



Hyphoioma corresponds with 

 Tricholoma, Entoloma, and Hebe- 

 loma. The veil which is woven in- 

 to a spidery web does not form a 

 ring. CcEspitose, growing on wood. 

 The species are not edible, the tough 

 ones being bitter, and the fragile 

 ones almost devoid of flesh. 



* Fasciculares (A. fascicularis]. Colour 



XXXII. Agaricus (Hyphoioma) O f the tough, s mooth, dry (except A. silaceus) 

 fascicularis. One-fourth natural pileus bright, not hygrophanous. 

 size. ** Viscidi (viscidtts, viscid). Pileus naked, 



viscous. 



*** Velutini (A. velutinus). Pileus silky with innate fibrils or streaked. 

 **** Flocculosi (fioccus, a lock of wool). Withfloccose, superficial separat- 

 ing scales. 

 ****** Appendiculati (A. appendiculatus}. Pileus smooth, hygrophanous. 



* FASCICULARES. Colour of the tough, smooth, dry (except 

 A. silaceus) pileus bright, not hygrophanous. 



708. A. silaceus Pers. Pileus 7.5 cent. (3 in.) broad, orange- 

 rufous, fleshy, convex, viscous, silky and whitish round the 



