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 TAB. CCLXI.

With. ed. 3. 280.

A {{uc|very} common Agaric about stumps and gate-posts, nearly allied to A. simetarius, tab. 188 of this work, and differing chiefly in the longitudinal striæ on the pileus, as well as in being generally of a fox colour. When darker it has been named A. miaceus, as being of a slate colour. Dr. Withering quotes Schæffer's tab. 17, A. suscescens, which is certainly no other than A. simetarius above mentioned. TAB. CCLXII.

Bulliard. 542 and 68. With. ed. 3. 274. Scopoli., No. 1483.

is also very common on dunghills, &c. and assumes so great a variety of forms as to appear more than one species. It is more or less cottony in the young slate, so that Bull. {tab. 138) calls it A tomentosus. Dr. Withering has accidentally quoted this tab. of Bull, for A. congregatus. The stipes is extremely brittle, and the whole plant tender and very short-lived, seldom continuing more than twelve hours. Is it not the A. momentaneus of With. 294? TAB. CCLXIII.

Curt. F.L.fasc. 4. t. 70.

Bull. 509 and 344.

velvety stipes of this fungus affords an excellent specific distinction, however variable the plant. The present figure is a variety that grew in a wood-shed at Mr. Nottidge's, Russel-street, Bermondsey, which Lady Wilson was so good as to inform me of. The paleness of the pileus, and extraordinary length of