. British fungi (Hymenomycetes). Fungi -- Great Britain. 206 AGARICUS. Clitopilus. somewhat silky, sparkling, margin straight. Stem hollow, some- what equal, undulato-fibrous, silky. Gills broad, adnate, and sometimes emarginate behind, veined. Ascot. Nameâo-TtAjSw, to glisten ; Kâ¬^a\^, head. Br. n. 1758. C. Ilhist. PI. 324. b. From the sparkling pileus. B. 6^. Leptonia. Subge7iiis XV. LEPTONIA (AeTTTos, slender). Fr. Syst. Myc. i. p. 201. Rosy-spcred. Stem cartilaginous, tubular (the tube stuffed or hollow), polished, somewhat shining. Pileus thin, umbilicate or with a darker disc, cuticle f
. British fungi (Hymenomycetes). Fungi -- Great Britain. 206 AGARICUS. Clitopilus. somewhat silky, sparkling, margin straight. Stem hollow, some- what equal, undulato-fibrous, silky. Gills broad, adnate, and sometimes emarginate behind, veined. Ascot. Nameâo-TtAjSw, to glisten ; Kâ¬^a\^, head. Br. n. 1758. C. Ilhist. PI. 324. b. From the sparkling pileus. B. 6^. Leptonia. Subge7iiis XV. LEPTONIA (AeTTTos, slender). Fr. Syst. Myc. i. p. 201. Rosy-spcred. Stem cartilaginous, tubular (the tube stuffed or hollow), polished, somewhat shining. Pileus thin, umbilicate or with a darker disc, cuticle fibrillose or separating into darker scales, margin at first ijicurved. Gills at first adnexed or adnate, but readily separating. Fr. Hyni. Eur. p. 201. The LeptonicE are related to the Clito- pili as the Collybice are to the Clitocybce. The species are small, elegant, brightly coloured, inodorous (except A. i?ica- niis), and abound in rainy weather. Gregarious or growing in troops; on the ground, commonly on dry mossy ^,^, , . ,r .. â -. y pastures, but also in marshy places. XVI. Agaricns {Leptonia) lam- ^ i>ropus. One-half natural size. * q^^ whitish. Pileus slightly fleshy, without strise, not hygrophanous. ** Gills at the first azure-blue or slightly dark-blue. *** Gills becoming fuscous- or dark-p^irple. **** Gills pallid. Becoming pale, yellow or green. ***** Gills grey or glaucous. Hygrophanous, pileus somewhat striate. *â Gills whitish, &c. 453. A. placidus Fr.âPileus cent, (i in.) or a little more broad, fleshy-membranaceous, campanulate then convex, obtuse, without strise, disc densely villous and blackish, otherwise at the very first squamulose on the cinereous-whitish ground with fulig- inous-black fibrils, sometimes at the first flocculose, becoming grey-azure-blue, then with dark concentric scales on a white ground. Stem cent. (2-3 in.) long, 2 mm. (i lin.) thick, stufed, equal, very rigid, smooth, but white-prui7iose and under a lens black-
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