On dead stems of reed. Oct. Berwickshire.
Pileus membranaceous, inverted, deeply oyatbiform, Jin. broad, smooth,
waved and furrowed at the edges, of a wood-brown hue, becoming paler when
dry; gills adnato-decnrrent, at least in the inverted pilens, 1 line broad,
rather distant, thick, more or less undnlated, wrinkled on the sides and in
the interstices with flexuous veins, once or twice divided near the edge, ot a
dnll chalky white. Spores oblong, colourless, pellucid. Stem in. High,
about 1 line thick, fistulose, erect, stiff, and elastic, smooth, white, or very
pale wood-brown above, towards the base of a dirty dark brown, becoming
paler when dry, then apparently mealy ; root shghtly incrassated, bent, fixed
by a dense cottony web.—M. J-B.
2 3 0 . A g a z i c u s (O m p h a lia ) i n t e g r e l l u s . P. “ Little-white
Omphalia.”
White, fragiie ; piieus membranaceous, hemisphericai, then
expanded, peiiucid; striate ; stem very siender, short, pubescent
beiow ; giiis decurrent, distant, siightiy branched, edge acute.—
Fr. Epicr. p. 128. Pers. Ic. 4 Des. i. 13, / . 5. Eng. Fl. v. p. 64.
Ann. N .H . no. 142. Bay. Syn. t. i.,/. 2, a. a.
On decayed sticks. Rare.
Cæspitose. Pileus 2-3 lines broad, at first hemispherical, ohtuse, at length
rather plane, substance thin, pellucid. Gills narrow, arcuate, decurrent, notwithstanding
the form of the pileus, some branqhed, especiaUy in younger
specimens, with but few short ones. Stem 1 in. high, fistulose, sub-pulvern
lent, villous at the base.—Pers.
Series 2. Hyporhodii, Fr. Epicr. p. 138.— Spores pink or
salmon-colour.
There is not one quarter so many Agarics bearing pink or salmon-coloured
as white spores. The size ofthe spores varies greatly. A few are very small,
others equally large (see Plate), whilst the majority are remarkably irregular,
resembling the fragments of granite seen in the roads. Some ot the species
are edible, as in Clitopilus (analogous with the white-spored edible species oi
Clitocybe), whilst others are poisonous, as in Entoloma, reminding us ot such
dangerous species of Tricholoma as A. sulfureus, Bull, etc. W. 6-. o.
Sub-Gen. 1 0 . V o lv a r ia , Fr. S. M. i. p . 2 7 7 .
Spores regniar in shape, ovai or pip-shaped, pink or saimon-
coiour ; veii universai, forming a perfect voiva (o), distinot from
the cnticie of piieus ( a ) ; stem distinct from the hymenophore;
giiis free, rounded behind, at first white, then pink, soft, iiquescent.
Hab. Gardens and hot houses, and in woods and on manured
ground, growing on rotten wood and damp ground; one species
is parasitic on Agaricus nehularis.— (Plate I I I ., fig. 1 0 .)