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Agaiicus (Armillaria) focalis, Fr. Hym. Eur., 40. 
Pileiis fleshy, soft, convex then plane, obtuse, cuticle silky, be- 
coming smooth, ring broad, oblique ; stem solid, equal, breaking 
with a fibrous fracture; gills nearly free, crowded, narrow, white, 
becoming pallid. Cooke Illust., B. ^ Br. Ann. Nat. Hist., 
No. 1837. 
On bare ground, under old laurel trees. Coed Coch. 
“ Pileus 4 inches across, pale fawn coloured, darker above, 
slightly virgate, extreme margin involute ; stem 5 inches high, 
l^in. thick at base, variously lacerated ; mycelium white, fibrillose, 
ring very broad (to which the specific name alludes) superior. 
Odour farinaceous ; substance tender. Almost agreeing in 
dimensions with the var. Goliath, and certainly one of the finest 
British species.” B. Br. 
Figured in Cooke’s Illustrations, pi. 31. The pileus rather too 
darkly coloured. 
Agaricus (Tricholoma) stans, Fr. Hym. Eur., 52. 
Pileus compact, convex, then flattened, viscid, smooth (neither 
granulated nor spotted), becoming reddish, flesh reddish beneath 
the cuticle ; stem solid, nearly equal, squamulose ; gills rounded, 
crowded, white, spotted with red. Fr. Icon., t. 28. B. ^ Br. 
Ann. Nat. Hist., No. 1838. 
On the ground. Coed Coch. 
“ This species was formerly called by Fries A. pessundatiis, and 
was found of large size at Coed Coch. The figure in the ‘ leones ’ 
marked ‘ pessundatus ^ is now referred to A. stans. The true 
A. pessundatus was sent by Mr. Benny from Lucerne.” B. 4' 
Agaxicus (Tricholoma) guttatus, Schoeff. Ic. t., 240. 
Pileus fleshy, convex, then flattened, cinnamon or ashy grey, dry, 
breaking in granular or floccose scales, margin remotely sulcate, at 
first involute, floccose ; stem solid, mealy white ; gills emarginate 
with a decurrent line, much crowded, snowy white. Fr., Hym. 
Eur., p. 54. B. 4’ Br. Ann. Nat. Hist., No. 1839. 
On the borders of woods. Downton. 
Taste bitter, rather acrid. Pileus 3-5in. broad. 
Agaricus (Tricholoma) tumidus, Fr. Hym. Eur., 61. 
Bigid, fragile ; pileus bullate then expanded, undulate, rather 
shining, then cracked and split, cinereous ; margin thin, broken ; 
stem solid, rooting, swollen, striate, white ; gills marginate, 
broad, somewhat distant, white, becoming reddish-grey. Kroinh., 
t. 72, f. 1-5. B Br. Ann. Nat. Hist., No. 1840. 
In moist pine woods. Coed Coch. 
“ Exactly according with Krombholz’s figure.” B. 4' Br. 
Agaricus (Tricholoma) lixivius, Fr. 
“ There is no doubt that Sowerbv’s A. compressus is this species.” 
B. 4’ Br. 
Agaricus (Clitccybe) hirneolus, Fr. Hym. Eur,, p. 82. 
Pileus rather fleshy, convex, plane, even, smooth, with a silky 
lustre; disc at length depressed, margin involute, very thin; stem 
