34 2 AGARICUS. 



Veil none. Stem 5-6 cent. (2-2% in.) high, 4 mm. (2 lin.) thick, 

 red-brown, fistulose, brittle, stringy, splitting longitudinally, 

 marked with short white fibrils. Grills aclnate, slightly ventricose, 

 brownish, margin white, slightly toothed. 



Spores black. Csespitose. Closely allied to A. cinctulus Bolt., but differing 

 in habit and in many essential characters. 



In a tare-field. Apethorpe, 1860. Sept. 



Fries omits A. cinctulus Bolt, as he suspects the figure is incorrect. Name 

 sub, and balteus, a band or border. Somewhat banded. From the zone 

 near the margin. B, & Br. n. 923. C. Hbk. n. 445. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 312. 



770. A. acuminatus Fr. Pileus flesh - tan - colour, slightly 

 fleshy, conical, sharp-pointed, even, smooth, shining, zoned with a 

 blackish line round f he margin. Stem 2.5 cent, (i in.) long, thin, 

 equal, pruinose, thickened at the base, of two colours, pallid 

 above, fuscous downwards. Gills aclnexed, ventricose, crowded, 

 blackish. 



Very much allied to A. papilionaceus, &c., but easily distinguished by the 

 colour and shape of the pileus, &c. Pileus " tawny- violaceous " : Seer. The 

 margin of the pileus is at first crenulate. 



On dung. Sibbertoit, 1870. Oct. 



Name acuminatus, sharp-pointed. From the pileus. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 

 312. Monogr. \. p. 447. B. & Br. n. 1258. Batt. t. 22. F. Schceff. t. 202 

 differs in the long and dark stem, but the traces of a line are present. 



771. A. fimicola Fr. Pileus fiiliginous-grey when moist, be- 

 coming clay-hoary when dry, slightly fleshy, campanulate then 

 convex, obtuse, even, smooth, opaque, marked round the margin 

 with a narrow fuscous zone, and inside this with a white one; 

 flesh thin, grey-white. Stem 7.5-10 cent. (3-4 in.) long, 2 mm. 

 (i lin.) thick, fistulose, soft-fragile, equal, becoming dingy pale, 

 obsoletely slightly silky-striate, white-pruinose at the apex. Gills 

 adnate, slightly rounded, somewhat ventricose, broad (almost 

 semi-ovate), variegated grey and fuliginous. 



On dung, rich pasture, &c. Rare. Oct. 



Name -fimus, dung; colo, to inhabit. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 447. Hym. Eur. 

 p. 312. Berk. Out. p. 175. B. & Br. n. 1259 (a stouter form). C. Hbk. n. 

 446. Buxb. C. iv. t. 28. /. 4. B more slender, A. varius Bolt. t. 66. f. i. 



Psathyreiia. Stibgenus XXXV. PSATHYRELLA ($a08 P 6s, fragile). Veil 

 not woven, scarcely conspicuous. Pileus membranaceous, striate, 

 margin not exceeding the gills. Gills equally black-fuliginous, 



