A G A R I C U S T E N A C E L L U S. original: Tenacious Agaric

G E N E R I C C H A R A C T E R.

Developed, i.e., no volva a cup-like structure at the base at the base of the stalk. Pileus cap variable in form. Gills either entire or mixed with shorter ones, rarely simply branched and not veined.

S P E C I F I C C H A R A C T E R.

Small gregarious growing in groups Agaric, with a somewhat umbonate having a central bump fleshy-membranous cap, somewhat hard, brownish or pallid-sooty, with flat snow-white gills, a very smooth, somewhat tawny, tenacious stalk, hairy at the base, whitish at the apex. Synopsis of the method of fungi, p. 37.

It grows in autumn and sometimes at the beginning of winter in beech forests, but especially in pine forests on the ground among mosses.

NOTE: Due to its firm substance, this species, although small, should be better assigned to the third section, after Agaricus pratensis, Var. 4. Synopsis of fungi, p. 305.

E X P L A N A T I O N O F F I G U R E S.

TAB. I. (fig. 3.) shows this species, which is proposed in the fourth figure by diameter.

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A G A R I C. S E C T I O N I V.

Thin agarics of medium size, with a cap that is most often membranous, striated, translucent, convex, persistent; with gills of the same color among themselves and dry; with a fistulous hollow like a pipe elongated stalk.

T E N A C E L L A A G A R I C.

S P E C I F I C C H A R A C T E R.

Grouped, small; cap raised like a shield; a little fleshy and tenacious; of a color pulling toward tawny; stalk hairy at its base, whitish toward its extremity.

It is found in autumn, sometimes even in the months of November and December, in the forests, especially those of pine, on the ground in the middle of mosses.

The cap is 4 lines approx. 1/3 inch wide; it is almost a sooty white in those that vegetate in winter; it is elastic, slightly wrinkled, with a smooth edge; its stalk, which is firm, is 2 to 3 inches in length; its gills are a beautiful snow-white.

NOTE: This species, although small, should perhaps, because of the firmness of its substance, be placed in section III, after the field Agaric.

E X P L A N A T I O N O F F I G U R E S.

It is represented by fig. 3, of Pl. I. Fig. 4 shows an individual in profile.