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HEW BRITISH FUNGt. 
stem thickest at the base and pale umber, attenuated upwards and 
whitish, silky, fistulose, sprinkled below with delicate black fibrils, 
gills crowded, margin serrulate, whitish then brightish flesh- 
colour. — Cooke Ulus. t. 518, fig. b. 
On a stump. Scarboro’. ( G. Massee.) 
Gregarious. Pileus -|-1J inch. Stem 1 in. long, 1 line thick at 
the apex. Smell none. Taste pleasant. Spores spherical, 
smooth. Paper in which the specimens were dried stained bright 
violet. 
Agaricus (Pluteus) ephebius, Fr. Eym. Enr. 186. 
Pileus fleshy, convex then flattened, obtuse, clad with a bluish 
tomentum, margin naked; stem stuffed, smooth, minutely striate ; 
gills free, yellowish, then flesh-coloured.— Cooke lllus. t. 517. 
On rotten wood. Helmsley, Yorks. ( G. Massee.) 
Pileus from 1 to 2 inches broad. Stem 1 to 2 inches long, 
often curved, and sometimes turning bluish. 
Agaricus (Inocybe) perbrevis, Weinm. Ross. p. 185. 
Pileus rather fleshy, convex, obtusely umbonate, fibrous or 
squamose, margin rather striate, at length cracked ; stem stuffed, 
short, pallid, clad with white fibrils, somewhat attenuated at the 
base, gills uncinately adnexed, rather distant, whitish, then tawny 
or clay-coloured. — Fr. Hym. Eur. 233. Hojfm. Ic. t. 14, /. 1. 
Cooke lllus. t. 519. 
In shady woods. Near Scarboro’. ( G . Massee .) 
Small but rather firm, tawny or rufous, becoming yellowish. 
Pileus about an inch. Stem scarcely an inch long, cortinate, 
pruinose at the apex. Flesh white. 
Agaricus (Psalliota) augustus, Fr. Hym. Eur. 278. 
Pileus globose, then hemispherical, at length expanded, very 
obtuse, disc even, circumference fibrillose-squamose, stem solid, 
thick, smooth ; ring superior very broad, externally cracked into 
angular scales ; gills crowded, narrow, pallid then brown, remote, 
leaving a collar round the stem. — Fr. Sver. Svamp . t. 38. Cooke 
lllus. t. 521. 
In woods. 
A very large and fine species. Pileus 4-5 inches broad. Stem 
1^-2 in. thick, attenuated upwards, white, but tinged with red 
when bruised. Flesh soft, white, unchangeable. Gills never 
acquiring a flesh-colour. 
Agaricus (Psalliota) pratensis, Schceff. Icon. t. 96. 
Pileus fleshy, ovoid then expanded, becoming smooth or squamu- 
lose, whitish then cinereous ; stem stuffed, thickened at the base, 
naked ; ring median simple, deciduous ; gills free, narrow, acute, 
rounded behind, cinereous , at length brown. — Fr. Hym. Eur. 279. 
Cooke lllus. t. 525. 
In pastures and woods. Pulborough, Sussex. 
Pileus 2-3 inches broad. Stem 2 in. long, half an inch thick 
and more. Odour and taste pleasant. 
