Critical Review of the Mycological System

AGARICUS

mountainous regions, at the end of summer. Foetid, poisonous, white, or with a subacute pileus, never depressed, yellow; stipe and pileus are often oblique, hence like a conical Hydroph. referring to the genus Hydrophorus, commonly produced and lobed on one side. Ring adhering to the lamellae, which are floccose at the edge, crust-like, lacerate.

*A. VERNUS, pileus ovato-expanded subdepressed viscid, margin naked and smooth, stipe stuffed and equal floccose, tightly sheathed by the free limb of the bulbous volva, ring reflexed and tumid, lamellae free. S. M. 1. p. 13. Vitt. Mang. t. 44. A. bulbosus vernus. Bull. t. 108. Paul. Hist. Soc. Med. 1776. t. 6. f. 1, 2. Champ. t. 156, f. 3, 4. In moist forests, in spring and early summer. Extremely poisonous, white; the stipe of the thinner ones is flexuous and usually hollow. Intermediate to the nearest ones, hardly a primary species.

5. A. PHALLOIDES, pileus campanulato-expanded obtuse viscid (n. b. in wet weather), margin orbicular smooth, stipe from stuffed to hollow at the apex, attenuated, glabrous, volva semiliberal loose bulbous, ring superior membranaceous, lamellae rounded and ventricose. S. M. 1. p. 13. Vaill. par. t. 14. f. 5. optimal. Paul. in Soc. Medic. 1776. t. 5. Champ. t. 155, 156. f. 1, 2. Ag. bulbos. Bull. Ch. t. 2. Pers. Syn. A. Mappa Lasch.! Linn. 1827. n. 1. A. virosus. Vittad. t. 17. In shady forests of the plains or lake regions. Odor obsolete, but strongly poisonous. Color of the pileus white (Bolt. t. 48), greenish (Fl. Dan. t. 1246), yellow (Am. citrina a. Pers.), green (A. viridis P.), olive (Krombh. t. 69. f. 8), brown, black! more or less whitening around the margins and returning directly to white! A. Mappa n. 11. plays with the same colors and hence the forms of both are mixed together, due to the never sufficiently to be deplored distinction of species by color.

6. A. PORPHYRIUS, pileus campanulato-explanate moist, margin equal slightly smooth, stipe from stuffed to hollow, without bulb, ochreate with a membranaceous free volva, ring distant brownish, lamellae adnexed. S. M. 1. p. 14. Alb. et Schwein. t. 11. f. 1. Paul. Soc. Med. l. c. t. 10. f. 1. Champ. t. 152. f. 2. (calls the volva a radical ring!) — Mich. t. 76. f. 3 with a larger volva, seen by me! In the damp pine forests of the Alpine and boreal Europe. Commonly thin, odorless, stipe fistulous, but also larger, with a stuffed stipe, habit of the preceding (Cf. Fl. Dan. t. 2145), pileus brown, purplish, etc., without bright and shiny colors, because the pileus is epelliculose, never viscid, almost fibrillose under the lens.

Paradoxus, with a parted fleshy pileus Paul. Ch. t. 152. f. 1.