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hollow, furnished half-way up with a snb-ereot ring, above which it is white
and pulverulent, below ferruginous and villoso-squamose, strigose at the
slightly incrassated base.—M .J .B , Spores '00042 X '00027 in. There is a
variety of this species with a chestnut-brown pileus, which is smooth from
the first.
4 0 0 . A g a iic u s (Stzophazia) s t e ic o z a iiu s . Fr. “ Dung
Stropharia.”
Pileus rather fleshy, hemispherical, then expanded, even, smooth,
discoid; stem stuffed, elongated, at first flocculose below the
distant ring, with a distinct pith, subviscid ; gills adnate, broad,
wbite, umber, tben olive-black.—Fr. Epicr. p . 220. Ann. N . H.
no. 688. Bull. t. 5 6 6 ,/. 4. (not Eng. Fl. Y . p . 1 11.;
On dung.
Distinguished from A. semigldbatus by the distinct medullary substance
with which the stem is stuffed; stem 3 in. and more long, 2-3 lin. thick,
yellow; pileus about an inch broad, yellowish ; spores unusually large, even
for a dung-born agaric, '00067 X '00053 in.
4 0 1 . A g a iic u s (Stzophazia) sem ig lo b a tu s. Batsoh, “ Semiglobose
Stropharia.”
Pileus somewhat flesby, bemispberical, even; stem fistulose,
slender, straight, smooth, glutinous, yellowisb; veil abrupt;
gills adnate, broad, plane, clouded witb black.—Fr. Epicr. p .
220. Batsch. f . 110. Grev. t. 344. Huss. i. t. 39. Eng. F l. v. p.
108.O
n dung. Common. [United States.]
Pilens J-1 in. or more broad, hemispherical, yellow, or slightly mottled
from the shining through of the gills, viscid when moist, shining and smooth
when dry, obtuse, fleshy, flesh white beneath the cuticle, umber near the
gills ; gills very broad, adnate with a little tooth, ventricose or plane,
mottled with the purple-brown spores, with at length a cinereous, sometimes
a yellow tinge ; stem2-3 in. high, 1-lJ line thick, very viscid, shining when
dry with a closely glued silkiness, fistulose ; ring more or less perfect, deflexed.—
i f . J. B. Spores '00054 X '00034 in.
Sub-Gen. 29. H y p h o l o m a , Pr. S. M. i. p . 287.
Spores brownisb-purple, sometimes intense purple, almost
black ; veil woven into a spidery fugacious web wbicb adheres
to tbe margin of tbe pileus, b . (not properly ring-shaped round
tbe stem) ; pileus witb an inseparable pellicle; stem confluent
and bomogeneous witb tbe bymenopbore.
H a b . Generally stumps. (P I. V., fig. 29.)
Most of the species are gregarious and not edible. Hypholoma corresponds
■with Tricholoma, Entoloma, and Hebeloma.
A . Fasciculares.
4 0 2 . A g a z icu s (H ypho loma ) su h la te z itiu s . Fr. “ Brickred
Hypholoma.”
Pileus flesby, convexo-plane, obtuse, discoid, dry, at length
smootb; flesb compact, wbitisb ; stem stuffed,fibrillose, attenuated
downwards, ferruginous ; gills adnate, crowded, white, tben
dingy-olive.—Fr. Epicr. p. 221. Schoeff. i. 4 9 , / 6 , 7. Krombh.
t. 44, / 1-3. Hedn. Cryp. t. 38. Huss. i. t. 60. Ag. lateritius.
Eng. F I .y . p. 110. Smith. P . M .f . 22.
On old stumps. Common. [United States.]
Gregarious, cæspitose ; pileus 2-3 in. or more broad, fleshy, always very
obtuse, not conic, at length expanded, ochraceous, tawny in the centre,
paler at the margin, where it is slightly silky, when young it is silky
all over. Veil stained with the spores, adhering in fragments to the
margin; gills rounded behind, adnate with a tooth, scarcely green,
clouded with the spores, margin uneven ; stem 3 in. or more high, 2-3
lines thiek, often thickest below, stuffed, yellow, with a more or less
rufesoent tinge, silky when young, distinctly squamulose, or fibrillose, firm,
at length fistulose ; spores elliptic, brown-purple, butnot with a ferruginous
tint ; taste bitter and nauseous ; sometimes rather difficult to distinguish
from A. fascicularis.—M. J. B. Spores '0002 X '00012 in.
4 0 3 . A g a z icu s (Hypholoma) c ap n o id e s. Dr. “ Fir Wood
Hypholoma.”
Pileus flesby, convexo-plane, obtuse, dry, very smootb; flesb
tbin, wbite ; stem nearly bollow, equal, even, silky, pallid ; gills
adnate, scarcely crowded, broad, dry, smoky-grey, then purplish.
—Fr. Epicr. p. 222, B. 4 Br. Ann. N . H. no. 913*.
In fir woods. April. Apethorpe.
Odour and taste mild ; pileus of one colour, usually yello'wish, 1-3 in.
broad ; stem 2-3 in. long, 2-4 liu. thick, equal, curved and flexuous, pallid,
whitish above.
4 0 4 . A g a z icu s (Hypholoma) e p ix a n th u s . Dr. “ Grey-gilled
Hypholoma.”
Pileus flesby, tbin, convexo-plane, somewbat gibbous, even,
silky, at length smooth, flesh yellow ; stem bollow, subequal,
flocooso-fibrillose, wbitisb, pruinose at the apex, brownish at tbe
base ; gills adnate, crowded, wbitish-yellow, a t length cinereous'.
—Fr. Epicr. p . 222. Paul.t.lQ/1. Batt. t. 2 3 ,D .?
On old fir stumps. Mossburnford. Lea.
Easily known by the absence of the hitter taste and cinereous tin t of the
gills ; stem ahont 3 in. long, 3-4 lin. thick, pale, ferruginous, or tawny at the
base, pruinose above ; pileus 2-3 in. broad, yellow or pallid, the disc usually
darker.