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V. On Agaricus crinitus, Linn., and some allied Species. By the 

 Rev. M. J. Berkeley, M.A., F.L.S. 8fc. 8fc. 



Read Febraary 18th, 1845. 



I HE number of Fungi preserved in the Linnean herbarium is small, but 

 they are in good condition, and comprise a few very interesting forms. 

 Amongst them, not the least interesting is Agaricus crinitus, a species which, 

 though correctly described, has been much misunderstood. The object there- 

 fore of the present memoir is to illustrate this and a few allied species, which 

 there is the greater necessity for doing, as, by some mischance, the species 

 described by Dr. Klotzsch in the ' Linnsea' were communicated to Fries under 

 transposed names, in consequence of which, without reference to the original 

 specimens, the confusion is almost inextricable, especially as the same spe- 

 cies are marked by other names by Dr. Klotzsch in Sir W. J. Hooker's 

 herbarium. It is hoped that the present observations may help to place them 

 on a surer footing, especially as they are accompanied by accurate draw- 

 ings, of which it is sufficient to say, that they are from the pencil of Mr. J. 

 De Carle Sowerby. 



1. Lentinus crinitus; pileo lat^ infundibuliformi repando badio-rufo fibris 

 innatis apice liberis vix fasciculatis regulariter striate margine reflexo, 

 stipite sequali pallido sericeo-farinoso, lamellis acutis integris rigidius- 

 culis subdistantibus glandnlosis decurrentibus postic^ anastomosantibus. 

 (Tab. IX. fig. 1.) 



Agaricus ainitus, L. Sp. Plant, ed. 2. p. 1644. 



Hab. On wood. South America. Rolander in the Linnean herbarium. 



Pileus If of an inch across, broadly infundibuHform, with the border arched, of a dark red- 

 brown, closely and regularly striate with silky fibres, the ends of which are free, flat 

 and ascending, and very slightly if at all fasciculate ; margin inflected. Stem about 

 I of an inch high, li line thick, firm, hard, nearly equal except towards the base. 



