AGARICINI. 2)ib 



well as the slender stem, yellowish-white ; gills at length 

 watery-ferrugiuous, hoary-grey at base. 

 Among fir leaves. Stoke Poges. 



6. P. orelloid.es, Cke. and Mass. ; pileus at first white, 

 becoming stained with livid or greyish blotches, minutely 

 silky, shining, margin thin, involute ; stem tapering towards 

 base, solid, elastic, silky-fibrillose, livid-ochraceous ; gills 

 crowded, readily separating from the hoary hymenophore, 

 whitish, then livid, at length dirty yellowish-brown, adnate, 

 decurrent. 



Among grass. 



7. P. lividus, Cke. ; pileus 1-2 in., convex, at length 

 slightly depressed at disc, dingy white, or livid-ochraceous, 

 opaque ; flesh nearly white ; stem attenuated downwards, 

 white, fibrillose, stufted, then hollow ; gills arcuate, decur- 

 rent, white, almost crowded. 



lu fields. 



8. P. revolutus, Cke. ; pileus li in., convex, obtuse, 

 pale ochraceous, slightly darker at disc ; margin thin, 

 even, at first sometimes tinged with violet and somewhat 

 revolute; stem solid, gradually attenuated downwards, paler 

 than the pileus, often tinted violet at base ; gills decurrent, 

 scarcely crowded, pallid, then clay-colour. 



In a field. Odour mealy. 



Tribe 2. Tapinia. 



9. P. paradoxus, Kalch. ; pileus 2-3 in., fleshy, convex, 

 then plane, dry, tomentose, rufous-umber ; stem solid, 

 somewhat rooting, unequal, fibrillose, yellow or reddish ; 

 gills decurrent, distant, connected by veins, yr^llow, then 

 golden-yellow, becoming reddish when old. 



On the ground. 



