Mas see, — A Monograph of the genus Inocybe , Karsten . 493 
Ag. ( Ino .) hirsutus , Fries, Mon., p. 336; /. prcietermissa , Karst., Symb. Myc. Fenn., 
xiii, in Med. Soc. Fauna et Flor. Fenn., 1885, p. 3; Sacc., Syll. v, p. 786. 
P. conico-campanulate, then expanded and acutely or obtusely umbonate, with 
more or less squarrose, fibrillose squamules, edge fimbriate, brownish or ochraceous- 
brown, disc sometimes tinged green, 1-2 cm. ; g. adnate, crowded, narrow, pale tan 
then dusky cinnamon, edge whitish, crenulate ; s. stuffed then hollow, brownish, 
fibrillose, apex pale, floccose, base slightly thickened sometimes, verdigris-green, 4-7 
cm.; sp. elongate pip-shaped, smooth, 11-14x5-5*5^; c. absent. 
Damp places in woods. Britain, Sweden, Germany, France, Austria. 
The flesh becomes faintly tinged red when cut. Closely allied to I. calamistrata , 
which differs in the squarrosely squamulose stem, strong smell, and rusty gills, and 
the presence of cystidia. Bresadola states (Fung. Trid., i, p. 80) that 1 . haemacta , 
Berk, and Cke., in Cke., 111 ., pi. 390, appears to be a form of I. hirsuta with 
a glabrescent stem. This view however is not correct, as I. haemacta differs in 
possessing cystidia, smaller spores, &c. Moral : do not undertake to decide the fate 
of a species from an examination of pictures alone ! 
The above diagnosis covers the species generally accepted as Ag. hirsutus , Lasch. 
calamistrata, Karst., Hattsv., p. 454; Sacc., Syll. v, p. 762; Ag. (. Ino .) 
calamistratus , Fries, Syst. Myc., i, p. 256 ; Fries, Icon. Sel. Hym., tab. 106, f. 2. 
P. campanulate then expanded, obtuse, dusky brown, entirely covered with rigid, 
recurved, squarrose scales, 2*5-6 cm. ; g. adnexed, seceding, crowded, broad, white 
then rusty, margin whitish, minutely crenulate ; s. solid, rigid, tough, equal, fuscous 
but dusky blue at the base, everywhere covered with minute, rigid squarrose scales, 
4-6 cm. ; sp. elliptic-oblong, subreniform, smooth, ii-i3X5-6/x; c. absent. Smell 
strong, not unpleasant. Flesh becoming tinged red when cut. 
On the ground in pine woods. Britain, France, Sweden, Russia. 
Most closely allied to /. hirsuta ; differing in the rust-coloured gills and the 
squarrose scales on the stem. 
(Specimen in Herb. Kew. accepted as typical.) 
echinata, Sacc., Syll. v, p. 773 ; Ag. echinatus , Roth, Cat. Bot., fasc. ii, p. 255, 
tab. 9, f. 1 (1800) : Ag.(Psalliota ) echinatus , Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 282 ; Ag. (. Lepiota ) 
haematophyllus , Berk., Mag. Zool. and Bot., v, p. 507, tab. 15, f. 1 ; Ag.fumoso- 
purpureus, Lasch, in Linn., iii, p. 420 (1828); Ag. oxyosmus , Montag., Ann. Sci. 
Nat., 1836, t. 10, f. 3 ; Ag. (Ino.) echinatus , Cke., Hdbk., ed. ii, p. 154; Cke., 111 ., 
pi. 393 ; Ag. Hooker i, Klotzsch, Engl. FI., v, p. 97. 
P. campanulate then expanded, obtuse, at first floccosely pulverulent then 
breaking up into scales, dusky- or sooty-brown when young, becoming dingy 
brownish yellow, 2-5 cm.; g. crowded, almost or quite free, pink then blood-red, 
finally with a brownish tinge from the spores ; s. fistulose, equal, floccosely-pulverulent 
below the imperfect annular zone, dusky red, 3-5 cm. ; sp. elliptical, smooth, yellowish- 
brown with a pink tinge, 4-5 x 2*5-3 /* J c * absent. 
On peat and soil in gardens and conservatories. Britain, France, Germany, 
Sweden, United States (‘3184 Car. Inf/ under I. echinata in Herb. Kew.), Cayenne 
(specimen from Montagne in Herb. Kew.). 
A curious little Fungus respecting which there is much difference of opinion. 
