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AGARICUS acaulis erect us planus, lamellis trifidis lanceolatis.
F L A T AGARIC.
T A B . LXXII. FIG. III.
'~T"VHIS is of a femicircular figure, the margin waved, the furface
fmooth, of a browniih moufe colour, and marked
near the edge with three or four narrow concentric lines, of a
darker colour.
The gills are arranged in three ieries; they are thin, pliable,
lance-ihaped, and the fame colour as the pileus. The fubftance
is foft and tender.
Of this plant I found many fpecimens, growing eredl on
the ground, in a fteep field by the footway leading from Elland
to Mills-Bridge, in Odtober, 1787.
AGARICUS acaulis, lamellis labyrintbiformibus. Sp. PI. 1648. LXXXVr.
O A K AGARIC.
T AB. LXXIII.
'T^HIS plant in the firil ftages of growth is of a circular figure,
a. b. growing flat, with the gills upwards; the gills at this
time are diftindt and branched, their fides united by fmall lateral
projeitions,-which are hardly vifible to the naked eye : as it advances
in growth a part of the fide which has adhered to the
wood, and is hairy, c. gradually feparates from it, and -takes
an horizontal pofition; after this the horizontal part continues
to grow and increafe, d. the other part ferving it as a
bafe : in procefs of time, the fmal-1 lateral projeftions increafe in
growth, fo as to be equal with the gills in height and fubftance,
thereby filling up the interftices, and transforming the gills
into oblong pores. It varies greatly in fize, from three to ten
or twelve inches diameter, is perennial, of a woody nature, and
a browniih cork colour; when old the furface becomes fmooth^
as at e. and the concentric circles more-eminent.
This plant makes the link by which the Agarici and Boleti
are naturally united •, and may with equal propriety be efteemed
the laft: of the one, or the firfl: of the other.
LXXXV.
planus.
E N D OF THE AGARICS.