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AGARICUS fubjlipitatus, pileo planiufculo lacero multiform cer- ccv - 

 vino margine crinato, lamellis trijidis pallidis fubcrenatis, Jkbtllifomit. 

 Jlipite brevi Jive nulla. Agaricus fabclliformis. Scbcef. 

 P. 20. No. 38. 



FAN-SHAPED PARASITIC AGARIC. 



TAB. CLVII. 



WHEN the plant grows fingle, it adheres by a very fhort 

 fmall lateral Item ; when it grows in bundles, feveral 

 plants iffue from one hard mislhapen root, without any vilible 

 ftem. 



The gills are arranged in three feries ; they are long, mode- 

 rately broad, tough, flexible, and of a pale buff colour ; in old 

 plants they become darker coloured, and fometimes diftinclly 

 dented or crenatea on the edges. 



The pileus is circular, except the defective fide ; the margin 

 dented, curled, and undulated, lacerating in decay;- it is of a 

 tough fubftance, deftitute of flefh, of a fmooth vellumy furface, 

 and of a bright brown, or red deer colour j darkefr. near the de- 

 fective fide. 



The fpecimens before me, grew on the fide of an old tree, 

 befide the brook below Mixenden-Mill, in February, 1790. 



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