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An HISTORY of AGARICS, 



XXXV. ACARlCXJSJlipitatus, pileo infundibulo murine, lamellis fej/ilis 

 Ufandihuli. ramofus grifeus. 



fir mis. 



FUNNEL-SHAPED AGARIC. 



TAB. 



XXXIV. 



HpHE root is little thicker than the bottom of the ftem ; it 

 -*- is obtufe hard, tough, and emits many ihort fibres : there 

 is no volva. 



The ftem is about two inches from the root to the gills ; it 

 is often flat, and more or lefs depreffed in longitudinal hollows, 

 with alternate ridges ; it is fiftular, or hollow, quite from the 

 root, and runs infeniibly into the pileus, as the tube of a con- 

 vohulous does into its limb — fo that the upper furface of the 

 plant is a continuation of matter, the fame in fubftance and 

 colour, from the verge of the pileus down to the root. The 

 fubftance is thin, pliable, tough, and elaftic ; the furface a 

 a little gloffy, feels to the touch like vellum, and is of a greyifh 

 moufe-colour. In fome young fpecimens there is a kind of 

 membrane, or a continuation of the furface extended over the 

 opening of the top of the ftem, which is reprefented in one of 

 the half-figures, on the plate. 



The gills are equal, and feem to be of the fame fubftance 

 as the plant : they are branched like nerves, as in the Agaricus 

 chantarellus ; and are of a kind of filvery grey colour. 



This Agaric I found in Lee-Bank-Shroggs, in Ocfober, 

 1786 ; it has been brought to me, from feveral other places, 

 by my friends. 



This plant feems to connect the Agaricus chantarellus with 

 the Peziza comucopioides, equally partaking of the one and of 

 the other. 



