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white squamulose below. A. apical, membranous, white. G. 

 adnate, sometimes with a decurrent tooth, somewhat pale livid- 

 brown. Flesh pale brownish. 



Gregarious. Taste fungoid, insipid ; odour slight or obsolete. Woods, 

 shrubberies, grassy places, under birches. Aug.-Oct. 2 x 2f x J in. Not 

 unlike some forms of 792. Must not be confounded with 69a. 



561. T. ombrophila W. G. m., Agaricus ombrophilus Fr. (Gr. ombros, 



rain, philos, loving) a b. 



P. convex, gibbous, smooth, clay-colour, sometimes shaded ferru- 

 ginous ; marg. with traces of the white V. St. hollow, paler 

 than P. or almost white. A. distant, white. G. adnate with 

 a tooth or adfixed, pallid brownish, then ferruginous-brown. 



Grassy places after heavy rain. Oct. 2j x -2\ X T \ in. Var. brunneola 

 W. G. Sm. (Agaricus ombrophilus var. brunneolus Fr.). P. brown. 

 i X i in. 



562. T. molliseorium W. G. Sm., Agaricus molliscorium Cooke & 



Mass, (from the skin of the pileus ; molliscorium^ with a soft, 

 leather-like skin) a b. 



P. convex, smooth, polished, dry, subumbonate, tawny yellow ; 

 mid. ochreous or sienna. St. hollow, equal, pale ochreous, 

 silky fibrillose, broken up into minute sq. above A. A. deciduous, 

 brownish. G. adnate or uncinate, crowded, ferruginous. 

 Taste and odour none. June. 2f x 2 x in. 



563. T. togularis W. G. Sm., Agaricus togularis Bull, (from the 



annulus, like a little cloak, togula) a b. 



P. convex, pallid ochreous ; mid. sienna or umber. St. hollow, 

 whitish, yellowish or brownish. G. adnate or adnexed, yellow 

 then pallid ferruginous. Flesh colour of exterior. 



In troops. Grassy woodlands, gardens, wood-yards, amongst chips ; rare. 

 May-Nov. 2j x 3& X ^ in. 



564. T. blattaria W. G. Sm., Agaricus blattarius Fr. (from the colour 



of the pileus ; blatta, a cockroach) a. 

 P. flat, subumbonate, ferruginous ; mid. darker. St. fistulose, 



whitish, brownish at base. A. white. G. rounded-free or 



slightly adnexed, watery cinnamon. 

 Gardens and cultivated places. Autumn, ijxi^xjin. Like #n annulate 



Galera. 



b. PkCBOtCK. 



565. T. dura W. G. Sm., Agaricus durus Bolt, (durus, hard) a b c. 

 P. convexo-plane, kid-leather-like, becoming cracked, tawny, pale 



ochreous or almost white ; marg. partially appendiculate with 

 V. St. paler than P., sometimes with root-like fibres at base. 

 A. ample, fugitive. G. adnate with a decurrent tooth, livid 

 brown to deep ferruginous. 



Possibly poisonous. Fields, gardens ; uncommon. May-Oct. 2|X3^Xin. 

 Sometimes gathered for 792. 



