Agaricus.'] 
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Gregarious, yellow. Pileus compact, plano-convex, obtuse, glutinous, rough, 
with evanescent concentric darker scales, as is the stem, which is somewhat 
bulbous below ; axis stuffed. Gills adnate, broad, yellow, then ferruginous. 
— Berk. Outlines, 151. t. 8. f. 2. 
Northern Island : Cape Turnagain, on trees, Colenso. (Europe.) 
15. A. (Hebeloma) strophosus, Fries; — Berk, in FI. N. Z. ii. 
174. Pileus fleshy, convex, rather flattened; disk darker, subumbonate, 
silky towards the even margin. Stem hollow, short, equal silky, with a 
floccose ring at the apex. Gills adnexed, then free, crowded, ventricose, 
pallid, then of a watery cinnamon. 
Northern Island: grassy spots, Wairarapa, Colenso. (Europe.) 
16. A. (Flamirmla) sapineus, Fries ; — Berk, in FI. N. Z. ii. 174. 
Pileus fleshy, yellowish, plano-convex, even. Stem subsolid, striate, pale. 
Gills dirty white or yellowish or tawny-cinnamon. 
Northern Island : on dead Conifer®, Colenso. (Europe.) 
17. A. (Psalliota) campestris, Linn.; — Berk, in FI. N. Z. ii. 174. 
Pileus fleshy, plano-convex, dry, floccose or scaly. Stem even, white ; axis 
stuffed ; ring about the middle, torn. Gills free, approximate, ventricose, 
subdeliquescent, flesh-coloured, then brown. — Berk. Outlines, 165. t. 10. 
f. 2. 
Northern Island: on the ground, Colenso. (The common “mushroom,” found in all 
parts of the world.) 
18. A, (Psalliota) arvensis, Schaffer ; — Berk, in FI. N. Z. ii. 174. 
Pileus fleshy, obtusely conico-campanulate, then expanded, at first floccose, 
then smooth, even or cracked. Stem hollow, with floccose pith ; ring broad, 
pendulous, double, outer split into rays. Gills free, wider in front, dirty 
white. Stem brown, tinged with pink. — Berk. Outlines, 166. t. 10. f. 4. 
Northern Island : on the ground, Colenso. (Common.) Grows in rings (fairy rings). 
Edible. 
19. A. (Psalliota) campigenus, Berk, in FI. N. Z. ii. 174. Small. 
Pileus 1 in. high, campanulate, obtuse, silky, with a few scattered scales, 
rather' fleshy, reddish when dry. Stem 1^ in. high, -- thick, thickened at 
the base, slightly furfuraceous ; ring broad, near the top. Gills rather nar- 
row, attenuated behind, adnexed or adnate. Spores pale red-brown, ob- 
liquely obovate. 
Northern Island : on the ground amongst grass, Colenso. 
20. A. (Psalliota) semiglobatus, Batsch. Pileus slightly fleshy, 
hemispherical, even, glutinous and yellowish. Stem slender, smooth, straight, 
fistulose, glutinous, yellowish. Gills broad, adnate, plane, clouded with black, 
— Berk. Outlines, 169. 
Middle Island : on dung, Sinclair and Haast. (Europe.) 
21. A. (Hypholoma) fascicularis, Hudson; Berk, in FI. N. Z. ii. 
175. Bitter. Pileus fleshy, yellow within, thin, subumbonate, smooth. 
Stem hollow, thin, flexuose, fibrillose, yellow. Gills adnate, very crowded, 
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