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 TAB. CIII.

Schæff. t. 12. This should seem to be A. piperatus of Dr. Withering, p. 172, which he gives as the true A. piperatus of Linnæus; but it is remarkable that we find no mention of the branched gills, which are constant in this and the commonly received A.piperatus or A. Listeri, With 158. Schæffer is not so accurate with regard to the gills; otherwise his figures have a general very good resemblance, though many were evidently done from bad specimens. Ours seem to be pretty good ones. His A. scrobiculatus, t. 227, and A. crinitus 228, are surely the same species as this. The juices are very milky. TAB. CIV. With. ed. 3. v. 4. 158. many of the characters of the A. torminofus. The specific difference seems to depend on the proportions, and want of the beautiful reticulated fringe of wool at the incurvated edge of the pileus; neither are the lamellæ so broad. This has always been thought the A. piperatus of Linnæus, till Dr. Withering told us the contrary. An acrid milky fluid exudes copiously from it when wounded. TAB. CV. Schæff. t. 55. With. ed. 3. v. 4. 180.

often abundantly in fir plantations in autumn, sometimes very large. I have seen it in Norfolk with the pileus seven inches in diameter, and the rest in proportion. It has a woolly or cobweb-like annulus in the young state, which is often entirely lost in advanced age. The gills are distant and clumsy.