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although without pellicle, flesh somewhat grumous, and taste very 
bitter. Stem solid, even, varying from white to red, 2-3 in. long, 
1 in. thick. Pileus compact, hard and fragile, convex, then plane, 
ordinarily depressed, absolutely dry, without pellicle, but polished, 
becoming smooth, of one colour, cinnabar-vermilion, but getting 
pale with age, tan-coloured, and often rivulosely cracked, disc 
darker ; margin spreading, obtuse, even, always persistent ; flesh 
white, red under the cuticle. Gills obtusely ad nate, rather crowded, 
whitish, then turning yellowish, mixed with forked and dimidiate 
ones. Spores whitish. — Mon. 192. 
Spores 10 x 8/a (Britz.), 8-10 p (Karst.), 8-10 p long (Bizz.), 
8-10 p (Sacc.). 
var. pallens. Bizzozero, p. 56. 
Pileus pale, otherwise same as the type. 
The species called pulcherrima, by Secretan, and referred to this 
by Fries, is thus described : — 
Pileus at first a fine red, shining and of one colour, it is then 
spherical, and sunk in the herbage. The colour is after of a cherry 
red, very bright, very dark rose, often dark purple at the centre. 
It is dull, covered with meal, which is distributed in a very fine 
granulation. Convex, then plane, at length concave. Diam. 4 in. 
Flesh white, granular, brittle, 6 lines thick, descending irregularly 
into the gills. It is red under the cuticle. 
Gills white, getting yellowish at their superior extremity, but 
the edge is purplish, which is most visible near the stem, and the 
margin of the pileus 4 lines wide, the greatest width at the ex- 
tremity of the pileus, and are very narrow near the stem. They 
are fragile, straight, or slightly convex, adhering after a short and 
deep return, furcate, anastomosing. 
Stem white, streaked with rose tints, 3 in. long, 9-15 lines thick, 
straight or curved, swollen at the base, which terminates in a point. 
This plant is heavy, solid, and brittle. Odour strong, penetrating 
— Seer. No. 506. 
We have included the following as a variety of the present 
species : — 
var. sapida. Cooke Ulus. t. 1087, Handbk. II., No. 1203. Agaricns 
atropurpureus, Krombh. t. 64, f. 5-6. 
Large, fleshy, plane (3-4 in diam.), then depressed, dark purple, 
shining, dry, or rather viscid in wet weather, margin quite entire, 
even; stem straight, solid, stuffed, white, somewhat cylindrical; 
gills fleshy, often furcate, broad, white, entire. Flesh white, firm, 
taste mild. (Spores 10 p diam.). — Krombh. 
Amongst grass. 
