508 Notices of British Fungi. 
red when rubbed, but clothed with meal, red within, stuffed with 
white silky filaments, penetrating into the soil by means of a few 
white branched fibres ; smell strong, like that of A.g. cristatus. The 
meal, under a strong magnifier, consists of globular vesicles, which 
are sometimes shortly pedicellate. 
Tab. XV. Fig. 1. a. a. A. haematophyllus* nat. size; b. b. vertical section ; 
c. meal highly magnified. 
39. Ag. erubescens, Fr. Syst. Myc. vol. i. p. 32. .Amongst beech 
leaves in a wood near King's Cliffe, Oct. 7> 1836. Ag. carnosus, 
Curt. Sow., formerly referred by Fries to this species, is now con- 
sidered by him Ag. maculatus, Alb. and Schw. At the time the 
English Flora was published I had not met with it, but a single 
specimen which occurred lately in one of the larch plantations in 
Sherwood Forest was sufficient to show that it was at least not a 
true Limacium, though I am not satisfied that it is so nearly re- 
lated to Ag. fusipes as Fries (El. i. p. 17,) supposes. The present 
autumn has also furnished me with a sample of the real Ag. erubes- 
cens ; and though, in some respects, similar to Ag. carnosus, it is 
at once distinguishable by its more robust habit, but especially by 
its possessing the characters of the subgenus Limacium. 
Pileus 2i inches broad, plano-convex, fleshy, compact, white ting- 
ed with rufous, slightly viscid ; margin downy involute. Gills round- 
ed behind, adnexed, rather distant. Stem 2-3 inches high, J 
inch thick, curved at the base, thickest above, stout, firm, fleshy, 
mottled, within squamuloso-fibrillose ; subglanduloso-squamulose 
within the pileus, which it resembles in colour. Smell scarcely 
any. 
* 40. Ag. cossus, Sow. t. 121 The difficulties respecting this 
species are stated in the English Flora. Having lately found Ag. 
nitens, Sow., which is also a true Limacium, I am enabled to state 
positively that it is quite distinct from the present species. Though 
exactly resembling Ag. cossus in outward form, it is quite destitute 
of its disagreeable smell ; and when dried, the white turns to a dark 
foxy brown, as indeed is represented in Sowerby's plate. It still 
remains to be proved whether Ag. eburneus of continental authors 
be the same with Sowerby's Ag. nitens. I can find no account of 
such a, marked change of colour taking place. 
* 41. Ag. fusco-purpureus, Pers. Ic. et Descr. t. 4. f. 1-3. The 
* The specimens from which the figures were taken were scarcely so dark as 
the visual state of the species, in consequence of having been slightly touched 
by frost. 
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