TAB. CCXLIV.
AGARICUS giganteus. Sibth. Oxon. 420.
If this be Dr. Sibthorp's plant, it will appear he was the first to notice it as a British species, to which it certainly has a claim. The general magnitude of the head on a short thick stipes, and the profufson in which it occurs, will readily distinguish it. I once found it in Richmond Park, where there were some specimens more than nine inches in diameter. The upper part of the stipes is somewhat tomentose.
TAB. CCXLV.
AGARICUS listeri. With. ed. 3. v. 4. 158.
I belive this no other than a plant of Agaricus Listeri and think myself wrong in making tab. 104 Lister's plant, which is surely another species. A. lactifluus acris. Bull. 200; A. acris 538, except H and G; A. plmbeus,tab. 282; and A. plombé, tab. 559, fig. 2, are most likely the true Listeri. I have found it in great quantities without branched gills, from a parchment white, to almost black[1], resembling A. elphantinuis, from which it is readily distinguished by the closeness of its lamellæ: my tab. 104[2] has constantly branched and inofculating lamellæ; and I never found it blacken in decay.
