390 FUNGUS-FLOBA. 



soft, almost glabrous, rugulose, dingy greyish oolire then 

 pale, disc obtuse, even ; gills rounded behind and adnexed, 

 ventricose, dry, 3-4 lines broad, greyish then blackish- 

 brown, edge whitish; stem 2-4 in. long, 2-3 lines thick, 

 equal, fibrillose, white, rather pruinos6, hollow. 



Agar,icus (Hypholoma) eascus, Tries, Epicr., p. 224 : Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 205 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 544. 



In grassy places. Gregarious ; fragile. 



Terrestrial, gregarious, not oaespitose, very fragile. Stem 

 hollow, equal, 3-^4 in. long, 2-3 lines thick, fibrillose, white, 

 apex slightly powdered with white meal. Veil appendi- 

 .culate at the margin of the pileus, squamulose, white, and in 

 the young stage forming white squamules on the pileus, 

 ,whioh soon disappear. Pileus rather fleshy, oval then 

 expanded, obtuse, 1^-3 in. broad, glabrous, livid^grey, truly 

 soft, rugulose,,and whitish clay-colour when dry; disc very 

 persistently even. Gills rounded, adnexed, ventricose, up 

 to 4 lines broad, dry, fragile, grey then blackish-brown, 

 edge whitish. (Fries.) 



Hypholoma punctulatus. Kalohbr. 



Oaespitose. Pileus about 1 in. across, flesh thin, convex, 

 obtuse, margin involute and the centre rather depressed, 

 dry, pallid, with a yellowish or brownish tinge, minutely 

 squamulose from the very delicate veil, at length naked ; 

 flesh pale brownish, tawny towards the base ; gills 2-3 lines 

 broad, sinuato-adnate, with a decurrent , tooth, rather 

 crowded, edge entire, pallid then pale-umber ; stem 1-2 in. 

 long, 2-3 lines thick, fleshy-fibrous, stufl'ed, equal or rather 

 bulbous at the base, pallid, squamuloso-fibrillose up to the 

 ring, glabrous above ; ring superior or near the apex, thin, 

 formed of fibrils clustered to form a zone, fugacious ; spores 

 brown. 



Agaricus (Fholiotd) punctulatus, Kalchbrenner, Icon. Sel. 

 Hung., p. 25, pi. 14, f. 2. 



Agaricus (Stropharia) punctulatus (Kalohbr.), Fries, Hym. 

 Eur., p. 282. 



Agaricus (Hypholoma') punctulatus^ Cke., Hdbk., p. 206 ; 

 Cke., Illustr., pi. 587 b. 



On rotten twigs and on chips lying on the ground. 

 Densely tufted. 



