74 AGARICINI. 



Hygro- vexo-plane, obtuse, somewhat repand, viscid, streaked with innate 

 phorus. fibrils, but wholly smooth, even. Stem 4 cent (iK in.) long, 12 

 mm. (Y 2 in.) thick, solid, equal, incurved, with white mealy 

 granules at the apex, smooth at the base, pale white, externally 

 more rigid and polished, internally somewhat spongy, hence 

 elastic. Gills adnate, scarcely decurrent, distant, thick, white. 



Odour and taste not unpleasant. It differs from all neighbouring species 

 in the mealy free (not innate) white granules at the apex of the stem. In 

 structure it is nearest to H. pratensis. 



In woods. Colleyweston, &c. Dec. 



Perhaps edible. N&mQarbustum, a plantation. Found under trees. 

 Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 126. Hym. Eur. p. 408. B. & Br. n. 932, 1013. C. 

 Hbk. n. 556. 



9. H. discoideus Pers. Pileus 2.5-5 cent. (1-2 in.) broad, pale 

 yellowish inclining to pale, the disc always darker somewhat fer- 

 ruginous, slightly fleshy with exception of the firmer disc, on its 

 first appearance campanulato-convex, margin inflexed, then rather 

 plane and somewhat obtuse, and at length depressed at the disc, 

 even, smooth, very glutinous / flesh of the same colour as the 

 gills. Stem 4-5 cent. (i)4-2 in.) long, 6-10 mm. (3-5 lin.) thick, 

 stuffed, equal or attenuated upwards, very soft (texture fibrous, 

 separable), fLocculose, viscid, pale-white, with white dots at the 

 apex. Veil entirely glutinous, rarely terminating somewhat in 

 the form of a ring on the stem. Gills at first adnate, somewhat 

 crowded, then decurrent, distant, moderately thin, soft, pale, 

 yellowish-white. 



Gregarious, here and there forming rings. In later autumn it occurs with 

 the pileus clay-coloured, disc ferruginous, stem elongated, at length hollow. 



In grassy places. Laxton Park, Norths. Oct. 



Stem dotted all over with viscid granules. B. &> Br. Spores ellipsoid- 

 sphseroid, 5-6 x 4-5 mk. K. Name SiWos, etSos. Disc-shaped. Fr. Monogr. 

 ii. /. 127. Hym. Eur. p. 408. B. & Br. n. 1558. Ag. Pers. Gonn. & Rab. 

 viii.-ix. /. 10 f. 4. 



**** Olivaceous-umber. 



10. H. limacinus Fr. Pileus 4-6 cent. (i%-2 l / 2 in.) broad, 

 disc umber then fuliginous, paler round the margin, fleshy, con- 

 vex then flattened, obtuse, smooth, viscid ; flesh rather firm, white. 

 Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, 12 mm. ( l / 2 in.) thick, solid, firm, 

 ventricose, viscous, flocculose, fibrilloso-striate, roughened with 

 squamules at the apex. Gills adnate then decurrent, somewhat 

 distant, thin, white inclining to cinereous. 



Veil entirely viscous, not floccose. Intermediate between H. olivaceo-albus 



