132 AGARICINI. 



I. MESOPUS. 

 * P ileus and solid stem fleshy . 



1. C. cibarius Fr. Egg-yellow. Pileus truly fleshy, firm, at 

 first convex, then plane or somewhat depressed, repand, always 

 smooth. Stem solid, thickened upwards. Gills decurrent, thick, 

 distant, branched, narrow, fold-like. 



Taste pleasant. Growing in troops. The stem passes into the pileus which 

 is hence turbinate. The gills are more swollen than those of the other species. 

 It varies wholly white. 



In woods, especially beech. Common. July-Dec. 



Berkeley records a var. white, here and there tinged with pink. The smell, 

 especially when the plant is old, is that of ripe apricot. Edible, delicious. 

 It must have four hours' slow cooking. Spores sphasroid-ellipsoid, 8-9 x 5-6 

 mk. K.; 6x8 mk. W.G.S. ; pruniform, nucleate, nmk. Q. Name cibaria, 

 food. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 206. Hym. Eur. p. 455. Sv. dtl. Sv. t. 7. Berk. 

 Out. p. 215. C. Hbk. n. 641. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 614. Harz. t. 18. Grev. 

 t. 258. Badh. i. t. 9. / 2 ; ii. /. 8./. i. Price f. 94. Krombh. t. 45.7. i-u. 

 Vittad. t. 25. /. i. Barla t. 28. Ag. Fl. Dan. t. 264. Sow. t. 46. 



2. 0. Friesii Quel. Pileus somewhat orange, fleshy, thin, con- 

 vex then depressed, villous. Stem solid, slender, villous, at the 

 base white, attenuated. Gills n arrow, fold-like, branched, yellow. 



Exactly intermediate between C. cibarius and C. aurantiacus, but smaller 

 than either. 



In woods. Sydenham Hill. 



Name after Elias Fries. Quel. Jur. p. 191. /. 23. /. 2. Fr. Hym. Eur. 

 . 455. B. & Br. 

 Paul. t. 51. /. 3-4. 



3. C. aurantiacus Fr. Pileus 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) broad, 

 orange-ochraceous, fleshy, soft, depressed, often excentric and 

 undulated, somewhat tomentose, involute at the margin. Stem 

 5 cent. (2 in.) long, stuffed at length hollow, somewhat incurved 

 and unequal, ochraceous. Gills decurrent, tense and straight, 

 repeatedly dichotomous and crowded, often crisped at the base, 

 deep orange. 



Taste unpleasant. The pileus is not firm, and the stem is not so much dif- 

 fused into the pileus as in C. cibarius. The stem, especially in marshy places, 

 becomes at length black. Bull. t. 505. It varies with light yellow pileus and 

 white gills, and is sometimes wholly white. 



In woods, especially pine. Common. Aug.-Nov. 



Reckoned poisonous. Spores ellipsoid or sphasroid-ellipsoid, 5-6 x 3 mk. K. 

 Name aurantiacus, orange-yellow. Fr. Monogr. ii. /. 206. Hym. Eur. p. 

 455. Sv. dtl. Sv. t. 79. Berk. Out. p. 215. t. 14. /. i. C. Hbk. n. 642. S. 

 Mycol. Scot. n. 615. Ag. Wulf. Jacqu. Coll. ii. t. 14. / 3. Batsch f. 37. 

 Sow. t. 413. 



p. 455. B. & Br. n. 1782. Apparently Krombh. t. 46. /. 3-6 and perhaps 

 Paul. t. si./. 



