34 AN HISTORY aV AGARICS,
XXXV.. AGARICXJSJtipitafus, pileo infundibulo murino, lamellh fejjilis
r*fmAhuti- • ramoBis' grifeus.
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FUNNEL-SHAPED AGARIC.
T -A B:. . V . xxxjy.\
^ H E root is little thicker than the bottom of the item; it
is obtufe Jiard, tough, and emits many fliort fibres: there
is no volva..
The item is about two inches from the root to the g i l l j it
is often flat, 2nd more or lefs depreffed in, longitudinal holhm '
with alternate ridges ; it is fiftular, or hollow, quite from .the
root, and runs infenfibly into the pileus, as the tube of a convolvulous
does into its limb—fo that the upper furface of the
plant is a continuation of matter, the fame in febftance and
colour, from 'the Verge of the pileus down to-the root. The
fubitance is thin, pliable, tough, and elailic; the furface a
a little gloffy, feeds to the touch like vellum, and is of a greyi/h
moufe-colour. In fome young fpecimens there is .a kind of .
membrane, or a continuation of the furface extended over the
opening of the top of the Item, which is reprefented in one of
the half-figures, on the plate.
The gills are equal, and feem to be of the fame fubftance*
^s the plant: they are branched like nerves, as in the sigaricus
chantarellasand are of a kind of filvery grey colour.
This Agaric I found in Lee-Bank-Sbroggs, in 0£tober,
p 8 6 } it has been brought to me, from feveral other places'
by- my friends. '
This plant feems to conned: the Agaricus chantarellus with
the Peziza comucopioides, equally partaking of the one and of
the other.