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 TAB. CCCLXI.

at Islington in a hollow elm. It was quite sessile, the gills reaching to the tree on which it grew. The pileus is thickish, very rough on the surface, and somewhat of a fox-colour. TAB. CCCLXII.

curious Agaric was sent by the Rev. Dr. Abbot of Bedford. There is nothing particularly striking in its appearance till we come to look at the gills, the edges of which are obtuse or flattish; from whence hangs a loose powder, appearing, when magnified, to consift of minute, round, pellucid globules. The rest of the gills is composed of two series of ovate and somewhat snuff-coloured vesicles. TAB. CCCLXIII.

Dicks. Crypt. fasc. 1. t. 3. f. 1. presume this is the, Agaricus solidus of Dickson, and the name accords well with it when gathered in a wet state. In dry weather its surface is satiny, and agrees well with A. sericeus of Bulliard and A. rufus of Withering. It varies both as to the pileus and stipes and is either of a yellowish, brown, or greyish colour, and often comes very near to t. 161. of this work. The gills of each are sometimes scarcely fixed. TAB. CCCLXIV.

Curt. 200.

Agaric may be best known in its latter state, when the gills are most distant from the stipes, leaving a ring round it: at the fame time the centre of the pileus becomes depressed. The rest is plaited, and the ridges rife above the centre. The gills are few, frequently only one at each plait.