224 OUTLINES OF BRITISH FL'NGOLOGY. 



This is Agaricus giganteus, Soiv. (p. 110.) 



2. P. Alexandri, Gi/L ; pileus 2-3 in., flesliy, compact, 

 plane, then depressed, dry, unpolished, fawn colour ; margin 

 closely involute, becoming flattened and faintly striate ; 

 flesh white, turning yellow ; stem stout ; gills rather decur- 

 rent, crowded, colour of boxwood. 



On the ground. Epping Forest. 



3. P. lepista, Fr ; pileus 3-4 in., dingy whitish, com- 

 pactly fleshy or piano-depressed, obtuse, without stri?e, rimu- 

 loso-squamulose towards circumference, dry, margin undu- 

 lato-flexuose ; flesh white ; stem elongated, or short and 

 attenuated downwards, equal, blunt at base, solid, compact, 

 spongy-elastic, at length hollow, whitish, rufescent or 

 inclining to fuscous, white-villous at base ; gills decurrent ; 

 somewhat branched, simple at base, crowded, entire, dingy- 

 white, at length darker. 



In woods. Slough. 



4. P. extenuatus, Fr. ; pileus 1-3 in., rigid, extended 

 from the fleshy disc, campanulato-convex, then expanded, 

 naked, smooth, moist, tan-coloured, becoming fuscous, margin 

 involute, pubescent, even; stem solid, tough, smooth, tuber- 

 ously rooting at base ; gills decurrent, arcuate, crowded, 

 white, then mouse-colour. 



In grassy places in fir woods. 



5. P. panseolus, Fr. ; pileus 1-2 in., whitish, fleshy, thin, 

 convexo-plane, then somewhat depressed, even, smooth, 

 moist, margin thin, involute; flesh becoming black; stem 

 stufted, striato-fibrillose, rufescent, thickened downwards ; 

 gills slightly decurrent, crowded, narrow, at length watery- 

 ferruginous. 



On the ground. In pine woods. 



Var. spiloraoelus ; pileus spotted as with drops, and as 



