texture no doubt suggested the name. It is always hard in the dry ftate, yet altogether very tender when fresh. A. squamosus, Schæff. 29. and 39. which I have received from Dr. Smith and Mr. Crowe, are doubtless varieties of this species. The gills when produced are occasionally notched, but not always. It is often blackish, or brown, at the base.
TAB. CCCLXXXIII.
AGARICUS lycoperdonoides. Bull. 466. With. fig. 228. ed. 3. vol. 4.
I have no doubt of this being an Agaric, according to Bulliard[1]. I however have not been so fortunate as to find it in the perfect state. I found it on the black remains of A. elephantinus in Feckham Wood in November a few years since. The lamellæ, according to Bulliard's figure, are thick and short.
TAB. CCCLXXXIV.
Fig. I. AGARICUS araneosus, var. of. 223.
Fig. 2. AGARICUS Ulmarius, var. 67.
Fig. 3. AGARICUS Velutipes, var. 263.
AGARICUS araneosus sometimes varies so extremely that it is difficult to recognise the species. The specimen as here figured may be known best by the webby films about it: the elongation of the stipes and the smallness of the pileus are a great disguise to it.
A. ulmarius. This imperfect state of this species has given rise to the idea of a new species; I therefore figure it here, to show how easily we may be deceived in this division of Fungi.
A. velutipes. The specimen figured in plate 263 being more curious than common, I could not avoid giving a figure of it. It became therefore necessary to give the more common appearance of it here, as found on willow trunks, its usual habitat. In moderate seasons it often grows much larger, with similar characters.
- ↑ The lamellæ however are said to constitute it a Merulius of some authors, as they are not very prominent.
