AGARICUS HYBRIDUS. HYBRID MUSHROOM.
AGARICUS hybridus; pileus convexus, margine involuta, fuscus; lamella; plurim®, pallidissime fus-
eescentes marginibus albis: stipes fistulosus, basi incrassatus denseque tomentosus.
AGARICUS hybridus. Sowerby’s Eng. Fungi, pi. 221.
Class and Ord er. C RY PTOGAMIAFUNGI.
[Natural Ord e r . FU N G I, Jtiss. De Catid.\
Ge n . Ciia r . Evolvatus. Films varius. Lamdla aut Integra aut breviores interrnisKc, rarius simpliciter m-
mosa; (nec venösos). Pers.
I n t e r folia marcescentia plerumque solitarius.
Y olva ad radicem nulla.
St ipe s in planta media; magnitudinis longitudine ses-
quipollicaris, crassitudine vix pennam anserinam
sequat, teres, fistulosus, basi incrassatus denseque
tomentosus et albidus, parte superiors fuscus,
striatus, came albida in tenuissima fila sencea
partibilL
Annulus nullus.
P ileus diametro sesquipollicaris, in plantis junioribus
convexus margine involuto, senioribuS'Subinfun-
dibuliformis, fuscus. Lamellae plurimae, plerumque
quatemae, pallidissime fuscescentes margini-
bus albis.
The present specimens were, gathered by Mr. Grave
ing under the shade of Horse-chesnut trees. Mr. Sowe
Forest in September and October. The length of the sta
among which it grows, and to which the cottony substan
common to several species of Agaric, has no analogy wit
signated by the same term, but seems rather intended b]
pearance of any other fibres serving this purpose. The
the appearance of the gills is perfectly white. The tasfc
ness in the mouth, and a sense of heat is experienced in
P lant usually solitary, growing among decaying leaves.
Sh eath or egg at the root wanting.
Stalk in plants o f a middle size about an inch and a
half long, somewhat smaller than a goose-quill;
round', hollow, growing larger towards the base
where it is woolly and nearly white; the upper
part is of a yellowish brown, striated; the flesh
whitish, separable into silk-like threads.
Rin g or Ruffle wanting.
Cap about an inch and a half in diameter, convex when
young, with the margin curled inwards; some-
. whatrannel-shaped when old, of a chesnut brown.
Gills numerous, generally four in a set, of a very
pale brown, with white margins.
s on the 12th June 1815, in Kensington Gardens, grow-
rby mentions it as common on some parts of Epping
Ik probably varies with the thickness of the bed of leaves
;e at the base usually adheres. This substance, which is
h the down or hairs of the more perfect plants, though de-
• nature to perform the office of a root. There is no ap-
young pileus is nearly globular, and when fresh gathered
; of this Agaric is not unpleasant; but i t leaves a rough-
the throat some time after it has been swallowed.
This plant has considerable affinity with ^4. Dryophitlus of the Flore Pranfoise and of Bulliard, A. D r jpU lu i
if Sowerby, but differs from it in the more enlarged and woolly base of the stalk; and to A. vclutipes
, • ^ -. ■ r .1 ... both these it may also b 6 f Sowei^, —...— — .--------- w v, e distinguished by its
from .which it is further separated by the colour of that part, xroi
solitary mode of growth.