AGARICACE^E 
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preceding, but is usually larger, stouter, and more brightly 
coloured. P. reddish-orange or reddish-brown. 5 . whitish, 
prominently sprinkled with almost black squamules. 
B. piperatus {piper , pepper—from the taste) may be known 
by the cinnamon-brown, large and irregularly angular pores, 
and the acrid pungent taste. In woods in aut.; sometimes 
tufted. Mycelium yellow. 
B. bovinus {bos, an ox—from the bufhsh red pileus), a clus¬ 
tered or gregarious species frequent in heathy pine woods, has 
a thin reddish-yellow pileus and long slender stem (2-4 in.). 
The involute margin of the pileus overlaps the tubes. 
B. edulis. Plate XV. 8. 
P. 4-6 in., brownish. F. very thick, white. S. 2-4 in., 
up to 2 in. diam., pale brown, with white reticulations above. 
The Cbpe of French markets. Common in woods in aut. 
Sometimes attacked by the yellow mould Hypomyces chryso- 
spermus . 
Family AGARICACEJE 
(Gill-bearing Fungi) 
KEY TO THE GENERA 
A. Plant fleshy, more or less firm, rotting at maturity. Gills pree. Stem 
central , its substance distinct from that of the pileus. 
Amanita. 
Stem with ring and volva ... 
... Leucosporae. 
Acetabularia. 
9 9 M M • • • 
... Ochrosporae, 
Amanitopsis. 
Ring absent; volva present 
... Leucosporae. 
Volvaria. 
9 1 9 9 
... Rhodosporae. 
Chitonia. 
9 9 9 9 
... Porphyrosporae. 
Lepiota. 
Ring present; volva absent 
... Leucosporae. 
Annularia. 
9 9 9 9 
... Rhodosporae. 
Agaricus. 
9 9 9 9 
... Porphyrosporae. 
Chlorospora. 
Ring absent; volva absent 
... Chlorosporae, 
Pluteus. 
9 9 9 9 
... Rhodosporae. 
Pluteolus. 
9 9 9 9 
... Ochrosporae. 
Pilosace. 
9 9 9 9 
... Porphyrosporae. 
Schulzeria. 
9 9 9 9 
... Leucosporae. 
