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 TAB. CLXXXVI.

AGARICUS

Bull. t. 553.

Gardens have often afforded this Agaric in great plenty, and with little variations. The stipes for the most part grows thickening upwards, and spreading into the pilcus; gills numerous, lighter than the pileus, which is of a brownish red. TAB. CLXXXVII. With. v. 4. 180?

in the damp parts of woods, not unfrequent. Air and sun would affect the tender but beautiful colour. The lamellæ in the young plants are somewhat arched, and fixed; in the older they separate from the stem, and often seem as if never fixed. In the latter state the pileus sometimes hollows into the hollowed stipes, and the whole plant has a rusty hue, much resembling A. farinaceus of Hudson; but surely it cannot be the same species. TAB. CLXXXVIII. Linn. Sp. Pl. 1643. With. v. 4. 293. Curt. Lond. fasc. 2. t. 72.

usually at the bottom of ports or paling, but not always. The stipes is rugged at the base, and up to the edge of the pileus in the younger plants, retaining there a permanent mark ; the rest is smooth ; the whole fistulose and very brittle. The gills areloose, of a silvery white, with a white farinaceous powder at their edges. The sides are connected by little points and pores fitting each other on other side ; and the lamellæ