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fibrillose or silky, base brownish ; gills adnate, thin, subventricose,
crowded, pallid straw-colour, then clouded.— Coolce Illus. t.
586.
On stumps, and on the gronnd, in pine woods.
** Viscini. Pileus, naked, viscid.
7 4 5 . A g a ric u s (H y p h o lom a) oe d ip u s . Cooke, Orevillea XIY., p. 1.
OE'dipus = otSiwovs, with swollen foot.
Pilens glutinons,^ fleshy in the centre, membranaceous a t the
margin, at first turbinate or hemispherical, with a ragged margin
(which separates from the inferior, very visible, and slightly darker
evanescent ring), then convex, with an even margin, smooth, dull,
hj'grophanous, disc umber, becoming pallid a t the margin, which
extends slightly beyond the gills. Stem rather thick, enlarging
dowmvards io a bulbous base, solid, fibrillose below, pruinose
above the median ring. Gills at first whitish, becoming umber,
adnate by their entire breadth, sometimes with a minute decurrent
tooth, plane, with a somewhat granular margin. Spores dark brown.
— Cooke I llu s . t. 587a.
Attached to decayed sticks or dead leaves.
Pileus J to 1 inch diam. Stem 2 iuohes long, 2-3 lines thick, nearly
Wûlt6.
V b l u t i n i . Pileus silky, or virgate with innate fibrils.
7 4 6 . A g a ric u s (Hypholoma) s to r e a . Fr. Hym. Fur. 293.
Stor'ea = a mat. Prom the fibrillose texture of the pileus.
Pileus fleshy, convexo-plano, umbonate, dry, fibrillose, stem solid
elongated, equal, even, subfibrillose, pallid, gills adnate, dry, livid!
becoming brownish, margin serrulate and white.
At the base of beech trees.'
Stem 4-5 in. long, 4 lin. thick, pileus 3 in. broad.
var. cæ sp ito su s . Cooke Illus. t. 543.
t o s S i f h S r = a clump or group of p lan ts; cæspi-
Cæspitose. Stem fistulose, sometimes tinged with yellow at the
base. Ag. hjpoxantha, Plow, and Phil., Grevillea xiii., 48.
On beech stumps.
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7 4 7 . Agaricus (Hy pholoma) lacrymabundus. Fr. Hym. Etir. 293.
Lacrymabundus = tearful. From the weeping gills.
Pileus fleshy, campanulate, then convex, sjiotted with innate
pilose scales; flesh white; stem hollow, fibrilloso-squamose, rather
thickened a t the base, w h ite ; gills adnate, seceding, white, then
brown purple.— Gooke Illu s . t. 566.
On trunks and on the ground.
7 4 8 . Agaricus (Hypholoma) v e lu tin u s . Pers. Syn. p. 409.
Veluti'nus = velvety.
Pileus rather fleshy, ovate, then expanded, gibbons, fibrillose or
velvety, becoming smootli, hygrophanous, flesh yellowish; stem
hollow, equal, fibrilloso-striate, mealy above, yellowish ; gills trun-
cato-adnexed, ventricose, scarcely crowded, brown, tlien iimber,
studded with drops of moisture.—F r. Hym. E u r . 293. Berk.
Outl. t. 1 1 ,/. 2. Cooke Illu s . t. 563.
On stamps. Common.
var. |6. le io c ep h a lu s. B. 4 Ur. Ann. N.H. 1865, No. 1009.*
Pilens hygrophanous, rugged, smooth, except at the margin,
where it is fibrillose, pallid, as in the stem, whose apex is farinose.
On old stumps. Sept.
7 4 9 . Ag aricus (Hypholoma) pyrotrichus. Holms. Ot. Ii., t. 35.
Pyro'-trichus, from Trip = fire, and gpt^ = hair. Fiom the
colour of the fibrils on the pileus.
Pilens rather fleshy, conical, then hemisphierioal, obtuse, densely
clad with somewhat adpressed, sometimes fasciculately squamose
fulvous fibrils, fiery-tawny, fiesh and veil fu lvo u s, stem hollow,
fibrillose, becoming fulvous ; gills adnate, pallid, then brownish.—
F r . Hym. E u r . 293. Cooke Illu s . t. 564.
About the trunks of trees.
** F locculosi. Pileus clad with floccose superficial evanescent
** ' scales.
7 5 0 . Ag a r icu s (Hypholoma) ca scu s. Fr. Hym. Fur. 294.
C'ascMS = old,as if hoary.
Pilens somewhat fleshy, oval, then expanded, soft, becoming
smooth, rugulose, growing p a le ; diso obtuse, ev en ; stem
eqnal, fibrillose, white, somewhat pruinose ; gills rounded, adnexed,
ventricose, dry, grey then dark brown.— OooZ;« Hlus. t. 544.
In grassy places.
Gregarious. Stem 3-4 in. long, 2-3 lines th ick ; pileus 1J-2J in. broad ;
gills 4 lines broad ; margin becoming whitish.
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