158 APPENDIX. 



CCVI. AGARICUS acairiis, pile ovelutino Jlriis concentrices notato, mar- 

 coriaccus. g'me acuto lobato, lamellis rams fubramofus ,fa?piusjimplicibus. 



Agaric us de St. Clou. Vail. Paris, P. 3. Agaricus coriaccus* 



Bulliard. 



LEATHERY AGARIC. 



TAB. CLVIII. 



'T^HE fpecimens before me, adhered to putrid wood, by the 

 -*• centre of the pileus, or by what may be more properly 

 called the centre of the plant ; it is covered with a fhort velvety 

 down, and marked with concentric circles, of various degrees of 

 paler and darker buff colour ; in age thefe colours difappear, and 

 the whole furface changes to a dirty dull dark green ; the margin 

 is thin, acute, varioufly lobed, iinuated, and curled; the plant 

 frequently halved, and growing by one fide only; the fubftancc 

 is tough, dry, and leathery. 



The gills are very various in length ; fome are extended from 

 the centre to the rim, and are interfered by others, which arife 

 at a fmall diftance from the centre; and run to the rim, which 

 manner of arrangement is feven or eight times repeated, as the 

 figure reprefents; rarely, the fhort are connected, at their bafe, to 

 the longer, but moft frequently fimple and feparate from each 

 other; they are thin, of a leathery fubftance, and a pale cork 

 colour. 



Grew on old pales near Shibdcn-Hall, January, 1791 . 



N. B. The figures in Vaill. Paris, Tab. 1. Fig. 1, 2, 3.. wer-e 

 undoubtedly taken from fpecimens of this fpecies. 



