culate.

Copyright, 1897, by
Thomas Taylor, M. D.,
and
A. R. Taylor.

AGARICINI.

_Subgenus Hypholoma_. Hymenophore continuous with the stem, veil woven
into a fugacious web, which adheres to the margin of the pileus. Gills
adnate or sinuate; spores brownish purple, sometimes intense purple,
almost black.--M. C. Cooke.

This subgenus has been divided into the following five groups:

1. Fasciculares.--Pileus smooth, tough, bright colored when dry, not
hygrophanous. Examples, Ag. (Hypholoma) _sublateritius_ and Ag.
(Hypholoma) _fascicularis_.

2. Viscidi.--Pileus naked, viscid. Example, Ag. (Hypholoma) _oedipus_.

3. Velutini.--Pileus silky, with innate fibrils. Example, Ag.
(Hypholoma) _velutinus_.

4. Flocculosi.--Pileus clad with floccose superficial evanescent scales.
Example, Ag. (Hypholoma) _cascus_.

5. Appendiculati.--Pileus smooth and hygrophanous. Example, Ag.
(Hypholoma) _Candollianus_.

The species are not numerous. They are generally either gregarious or
caespitose, and are often found in clusters upon tree stumps, or
springing from the buried roots of stumps. A few species are found in
short grass in open places; but few are recorded as edible, and one, H.
_fascicularis_, has been classed as deleterious by Berkeley, Cooke, and
some of the earlier authors. I find, however, no authenticated case of
poisoning by this species, and, indeed, have as yet found no species of
Hypholoma which could be satisfactorily identified as H. fascicularis.

The few species of Hypholoma which I have tested have been palatable,
and one or two are of very delicate flavor.

[Illustration: Plate VIII.
EDIBLE
Agaricus (Hypholoma) _sublateritius_ Fries (Hypholoma sublatertium)
"Brick Top."
Group from Seabrooke Woods, Md.
T. Taylor, del.]

PLATE VIII.

=Ag. (Hypholoma) sublateritius= Schaeff. "_Red Tuft_." (=Hypholoma
sublateritium=) "_The Brick Top_."

EDIBLE.

The cap of this species is fleshy and obtuse, convexo-plane, sometimes
showing a superficial whitish cloudiness upon the margin coming from the
veil, which soon disappears, leaving it smooth and dry; color tawny
brick red, with pale straw margin; flesh compact and whitish, turning
yellow when wilted. Stem stuffed and fibrillose, tapering downward. Near
its attachment to th