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An HISTORY of AGARICS, 



LXXXIII. AGARICUS acaulis coriaceis ■villofus margine obtufo, lamellis 

 betulinus. ramojis anajlomofantibus . Sp. PL 164.5. 



BIRCH 



AGARIC. 



TAB. 



LXXII. 



F I G. 



I. 



THIS adheres to putrid wood, fometimes by one fide of the 

 pileus, but more frequently by a fhort lateral foot-flalk, 

 which gradually expands into the fubftance of the pileus. It 

 grows folitary, or in imbricated clufters. 



The pileus circular, but deficient on the radical fide; it is 

 ftiaped juft like a leaf of the Soldonella alpina ; the furface 

 covered with a buff-coloured cottony dawn ; the margin blunt, 

 and rolled in. 



The gills very numerous, thin, and narrow ; divided and 

 fubdivided, in numerous fine and almoft imperceptible branches. 

 In old fpecimens, the margin fometimes becomes lobed and 

 gaflied, and the colour changes to a dufky brown. 



It is of a tough elaftic fubftance, and abides the year 

 round. — Grows in Woodhouje-Wood, &c. 



LXXXIV\ AGARICUS acaulis parvis niveis, lamellis Jimplicibus . 



fejjilis, minimus albus. Hall. Hiji. 2335. 



•Amanita 



flabellatus. 



WHITE FAN AGARIC. 



TAB. LXXII. 



F I G. II. 



/ "T~ V HIS adheres by a claw, like the be*ak of a bevalve fiiell, to 

 •*• the ftalks of withered plants, or the blades of grafs in 

 moift and putrid fituations j the upper furface is convex at firft, 

 and when magnified appears dawny; when full grown becomes 

 nearly flat and fan-fhaped. 



The gills are few, remote, and fimple The whole plant 

 is white, and of a tender, watery, pellucid fubftance. 



The fpecimens here defcribed and figured, I gathered in 

 Kebroyd-IVood, in Soy land, near the Brook, in September, 1777; 

 and have fince feen it in feveral like places. 



