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 TAB. CCCXXIV.

With. ed. 3. v. 4. p. 288.

found this Agaric most frequently in Kensington Gardens. It agrees in all parts with Agaricus semiglobatus, E. F. 248, except in the pileus being generally broader, gills very shallow, annulus broader, and often hanging in appendages to the edges of the pileus. The stipes is somewhat thicker: it is pithy, hollow, or stringy, as the other often is; but the present is more rugged, thickest towards the base, and often woolly. TAB. CCCXXV.

Bull. 408 & 501. fig. 3. With. ed. 3. v. 4. p. 329.

rare on old trees, willows in particular, affecting to grow in more shady parts than the Boletus versicolor, from which it differs pretty constantly in its uniform colour, as Bulliard remarks; to which we may add, that the pores are labyrinthiform in a fresh state; but when drier the tubes shink up and crack irregularly, sometimes forming points like a Hydnum, for which it has often been taken. The proper form of the pores may at any time be seen by taking a piece of the old plant and wetting it.