T A B . XCIX.
AGARICUS ECHINATUS.
T H I S is of an ekftic jelly-like fubftance, fimilar
to Agaricus mollis. The gills divaricate from a little
eccentric button of a white downy fubftance oppoiite to
the attachment by the pileus, which is rough with
hairs and rigid points intermixed. Mr. Pitchford firft
iliewed me fpecimens of this plant at Norwich. I have
fince found it in abundance on a decaying maple in
Greenwich-park.
T A B . C.
CLAVARIA PHOSPHOREA.
RHIZOMORPHA FRAGILIS. Roth. Crypt, minusnota,^.
HIMANTIA UMBRIN A. Ferfoon Dijf. meth.fung.gen. 73.
A G A R I C U M NIGRUM RETICULATUM COMPRESSUM,
See. Michel. Gen. 125. t. 66. /. 3.
FUNGUS NIGER COMPRESSUS, VARIE DIVARICATUS
ET IMPLEXUS INTER LIGNUM ET CORTICEM.
Rait Syn. 15.
FOUND in a wine cellar in Little St. Helens, London,
creeping among faw-duft and bottles in the autumn of
1796, communicated by Mr. B. M. Forfter. It is remarkable
for being luminous in the dark, when frefli,
at the ends of the ilioots. Mr. Forfter has doubted
whether this phofphoric appearance may not be
owing to fome vinous moifture imbibed, rather than
a natural property of the fungus.
T A B . CI.
A G A R I C U S STIPITIS. 3. V. 4. 191.
V E R Y common on flumps of trees in the autumn,
frequently growing in large clufters, as Dr. Withering
obferves. We do not often find it in a perfeft ftate: the
rain waihing more or lefs of the beautiful fcalinefs from
its pileus, and darkening the colour of the ftem, &c.
makes great alterations in its appearance. In a young
ftate it refembles A. laricinus, W. 193, if it be not the
fame fpecies. It varies in colour, fometimes almoft to
white, and often affumes a pinky hue. This is alfo
A. annularius. Bull. t. 377, and t. 540, f. 3. Fufco pallidus,
Bolt. t. 136, congregatus, t. 140, melleus, t. 141. It has
often been figured, and has too many names to be enumerated
here. I beg therefore to refer the reader, as
in many other cafes, to the Index.
TAB. cn.
AGARICUS TURBINATUS. Bull. tab. 110.
1 HIS fpecies feems hitherto to have been overlooked.
Lady Arden favoured me with fpecimens from Nork
Park, Surrey, where it was growing in plenty from
September 10 to November 2, 1796. It has a ftrong
unpleafant odour and tafte, caufuig a bitternefs in the
throat. The fkin of the pileus eafily peals, and is
often glutinous. The acute-edged bulb (if I may fo
call it) is very general. The other leading charafters
are endeavoured to be exprelTed. We have not known
it to have varied much, though it becomes, like moft
Agarics, fomewhat diftorted in the latter feafon, affuming
a cup lliape, and various other forms.