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 TAB. CCLXXXIV.

Curt.Fl. Lond. With. v. 4. 266. Schæff. 61.

Bull. 266.

is plain Dr. Withering, as he himself says, never saw this plant in any perfection; for though Schæffer's figures are very good, yet Curtis's shows the most general appearance of the plant. Withering seems to have had a rough specimen of A. Stipitis before him, with a bad one of A. sloccosus. The gills of this agaric are rounded from the stem, more or less brown; those of A. Stipitis E. Fungi tab. 101) generally adhere to the Item, or are fixed, (as Dr. Withering terms it) and are sometimes a little decurrent. The base of the stem is occafionally a little bulbous, hard, and blackish. TAB. CCLXXXV. With. vol. 4. 268. {{larger|{{smallcaps|This}} plant, when in perfection, may be readily known by its green gills, in which consists its most distinguishing character. It is very common on stumps of trees, bottoms of gate-posts, &c.; and occasionally varies so much as to lose even the above character, as well as the pretty fox-coloured tint of the pileus; especially in rainy weather, when the whole plant assumes a dullish brown. If not too much soaked, it may however regain its original tints, particularly that of the pileus. It is pleasant to fee the colour return again, either from the middle or the edge of the pileus. I have known an experienced botanist to bring this plant home in a moist state, and scarcely know it again when dry. It is seldom destitute of its finely filamentous annulus, or curtain.