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AGARICUS BULBOSUS.
PLENTIFUL in Earlham plantation of firs, by the
road leading to Norwich, in axitumn. I could not help
giving it the above name. It iliould feem to be the
A. bulbojus of Hudfon. The A. bulbojus of SchxfF. Bolt,
With. 3d ed. 217. &c. feem all to be no other than a
variety of A. mufcarius Linn, which has been multiplied
to many fpecies.
T A B . CXXXI.
AGARICUS SEMI-OYATUS. With. 296. ed. 3.
HELVEOLUS. Schoff. t. 210.
PAPILIONACEUS. Bull. PI. 58.
— SEMIPUTRIS. Bull. PI. 66.
COMMONLY found in a lefs luxuriant ftate than reprefented,
yet often larger. This variety of proportions
has given it fo many appearances, that it is eaiily
enough taken for different fpecies. It is A. acuminaius
of SchaefF. when the pileus is found acuminated,
which is not uncommon; A. ciliaris of Bolt, when occaiionally
lacerated; A. femiovatus of Dr. Withering,
when the plant is neareil to perfedlion in all its parts.
The gills are, in the beginning, edged with a white
farina, or powder; by degrees they become mottled with
brown, and finally black, when they are feen to be
double, and compofed of capillary tubes, which deliquefce
along with the black feed. In a perfe6l ftate,
it has an annulus, and is moft plentiful in moift meadows,
on dung, in fpring and autumn. On a dewy
morning the pileus is covered with a moifture, through
which it fhines with a beautiful fparkling luftre.
T A B . CXXXII.
BOLETUS iGNiARius. Linn. Sp. 1645, F. S. 1252.
Hudf. I ed. 497. With. 3 ed. 333. Woodvtile's
Med. Botany, PI 274. Bull 82.
BOLETUS UNGULATUS. Schaff. 136, 137 ? Bull. 401,
& 491.
O N willows moft frequent. It is feffile, varying in
lliape, but often refembling an horfe's hoof. 'J he pileus,
when young, is fox-coloured, and fomewhat tomentofe,
but becomes veiy hard,though fibrous by age,
fo as to endure all feafons, and even defy the ravages of
infedts for more than 7 or 8 years, growing or dried.
The tubes are long, and moftly cylindrical, very fine',
growing under each other in layers periodically; in
the beginning of each period, commonly giving a
whitifli farina, afterwards a ferruginous powder. I his
is the Agaricus cbirurgorum, Edin. Pharm. formerly
having been recommended as a ftyptic. It is manufa£
tured for tinder, 8cc. on the Continent in many
places, by beating, boiling in lye and faltpetre, &c. In
Francoma, they are faid to beat the inner fubftance
into the form of leather, and few it together for p-arments.
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BOLETUS F OMENT A R I U S . Linn. Sp. 1645. F. S. 125a.
With. 3 ed 333.
SEEMS commonly confounded with the preceding,and
often refembles it in every varied ihape, but grows
quicker, feldom enduring more than a feafon, perhaps
from Auguft to December. The fibres are fofter, and eL
fily pervaded by infeds, &c. It is made into tinder without
beating, and ufed in Germany, particularly about
the Hartze, fo famous for its rich mines. I have the
authority of the ingenious Dr. Afzelius, formerly a pupil
o. Linna;us, for authenticating this fpecies. The
tubes are moftly equal, and exude copioully a glaucous
i-arina in the growing ftate, which may be fcraped off.
in the latter ftate, they exude a ferruginous powder
ff^ \PJ'^do-ignarius Bull, 458, and B. ungulatus
bclroeft. 138, this fpecies .í»