16 AGAKIOINI.
Pileus umbonate, pale flesh-colour, clad with darker evanescent
granules ; stem sub-bulbous, and as well as the patent ring
squamulose with granules ; gills adnexed, white.—F r. Mon. Hym.
S u e c .,p .2 5 . Cooke Illu s. ¿.42.
On grass under old Scotch firs.
3 7 . Ag aricu s (Lepiota) c in nah a zinu s. Fr. Eym. Eur. 36.
Cinnahari'nus=VikQ cinnabar (vermilion).
Pileus fleshy, soon flattened, obtuse, granulose-mealy, persistently
vermilion ; stem stuffed, somewhat bulbous, squamose below
the ring ; gills free, lanceolate, white.— Cooke Illus. ¿.43.
In pine woods. New Pitsligo.
Pileus 2-3 inches broad, flesh pallid, taste mild.
var. tezzeyi. B. ^ Br. Fr. Hym. Eur. 36.
T e rr'e y i=m honour of Mr. Terrey.
Pileus sub-hemispherical, bright tawny red, rough with minute
warts; stem sub-equal, clad with furfuraceous scales of the
same colour ; ring a t length torn ; gills white, narrow, remote.—
Grev. i., 55.
On sandy ground. Forres.
Pileus 1-2 in.; gills not branched ; spores '0002X'00015 in.
3 8 . Ag azicus (Lepiota) gzanulo su s. Batsch. Fr. Hym. Eur. 36.
Granulo'sus=co\ered with small grannies, granula.
Pilens fleshy, convex, then expanded, soft, mealy with innate
granules, stem stuffed, then hollow, nearly equal, floccoso-squamose
below the ring ; gills crowded, reaching the stem, or free, white.—
Sow. t. 19. Cooke Illus. t. 18.
In woods and on heaths. [U n ited States.]
White, pink, yellow, &c. Always easily distinguished by its mealy
granular aspect. Snbgregarions. Pilens ¿-1 in. broad, nsually dull
reddish yellow. Stem 1-3 in. high, 1-4 lines thick, slightly inorassated at
the base.
var. zu fe scen s. B, Sf B r, Ann. Nat. Hist., (No. 1834).
“ This curious form was found near Bristol, by Mr. Bucknall,
pure white a t first, then partially turning red, and in drying acquiring
everywhere a rufous tin t.”— Cooke Illus. t. 213a.
3 9 . Agazicus (Lepiota) am ianthin us. Scop. Fr. Hym. Eur. 37,
Amianth'inus=oi the colour of amianth, asbestos.
Pileus rather fleshy, convex then plane, slightly umbonate,
granulose, ochraceous, flesh yellow, stem equal, slender, squamulose
gills adnate, crowded, white, becoming yellowish.— Cooke lllu s t. t.
Hussey i. t. 45. Sow. t. 19. Bolton t. 51, f. 2, Grev. Scot,
Crypt. FI. t. 104. Cooke Illus. t. 213 h.
Ill woods.
Smaller than A. granulosus, from which it is distinguished by the yellow
Var. Bzoadwoodiae. B. §r Br. Ann. Nat. Hist.
Pileus hemispherical, yellow, delicately tomentose; margin inflexed
; stem equal, and, as well as the ring, mealy ; gills white,
adnate, sometimes deourrent.
On the ground. Lyne (Sussex).
A very distinct variety, if not species.
4 0 . Agazicus (Lepiota) p o ly s tic tu s . Berk. Fr. Hym. Fur, 87.
Polystictus=mu.ch pricked, from n-oXvs + o-tiktos ; from the scaly
cuticle.
Inodorous, fleshy ; cuticle continuous, or broken into scales ;
stem attenuated downwards, stuffed with cottony threads, scaly
below the fugacious rin g ; silky above, gills crovfded, rounded before
and behind, free, white, with a pale-yellow tinge.— Cooke Illus.
t. 30.
Amongst short grass by roadsides.
Pileus 1^ in. across. Stem 1 in. high, f in. thick in the middle.
Sect. e. Mesomorphi.—^Small, slender, stem fistulöse, pileus
dry, cuticle entire.
4 1 . Agazicus (Lepiota) s istz a tu s . Fr. Hym. Eur. 37.
Sistra'tus=bearmg a sistrum, a sort of rattle used by the priests
of Isis.
Pileus fleshy, rather thin, campanulate, pruinose with shining
atoms, stem sub-fistulöse, equal, ring and stem below it, fibrillose;
gills nearly free, ascending, white.— Cooke Illus., t. 85 a.
On sandy ground. Forres.
This pretty species is remarkable for the filamentous ring.