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OUTLINES OF BRITISH FUNGOLOGY.

# * Moist or watery (hygrophanous). Veil, if present, fugitive,pulverulent.

60. A. (Trieholoma) gambosus, Fr.; pileus very thick andfleshy, at first convex, obtuse, at length undulated, moist,smooth, spotted, at length cracked; margin involute, at firstflocculose, as well as the tip of the stout solid stem; gillsemarginate, with a little adnexed tooth, crowded, ventricose,yellowish-white. (Plate 4, fig. 5.)— Sow. t. 281; Huss. i.t. 83.

In pastures. May, June. Pileus white, or slightly tingedwith ochre. Growing in rings. Eatable, and much approved bymany. Varying considerably in size. Smell strong, like thatof Polyporus squamosus. Sowerby’s A. graveolens is this spe-cies, as appears from his private notes. The true A. Georgii. —

61. A. (Trieholoma) monstrosus, Sow.; pileus fleshy, atfirst convex and umbonate, at length waved and lobed, opaqueas if whitewashed; margin indexed ; stem compressed, solid,streaked, opaque white, tomentoso-squamulose above, slightlyrooting; gills moderately distant, scarcely rounded behind,but not truly decurrent, cream-coloured.— Sow. t. 283.

On the ground. Jedburgh, A. Jerdon, Esq. Near Nor-wich, Sow. Often densely caespitose, and then not com-pressed. This cannot be A. borealis, Fr., as the pileus isalways white. In Sowerby’s figure it should be observed thatthe gills are represented as distinctly rounded. Probably es-culent.

62. A. (Trieholoma) albellus, DC. ; pileus smooth, atfirst conical, moist, spotted after the fashion of scales; disccompact, subumbonate; margin thin; stem solid, ovato-bul-bous, fibrilloso-striate; gills crowded, entire, white, attenuatedbehind and adnexed, without any tooth, broader in front.—Sow. t. 122.