the pileus is much brighter than he reprefents it ; his 

 figure exa6tly accords with the plant in a drying ftate, 

 and with Ibme fpecimens lefs perfedt than thofe here 

 dehneated. Our largeft figure nearly agrees with Dr. 

 Withering's defcription of A. ccejarius^ but does not 

 accord with any of the plates quoted for that fpecies. 

 Our limacinus is enveloped in a veil of gluten when 

 yoimg. The fialk is fomewhat pithy. 



T A B. IX. 



AGARICUS coLLiNiTUS. 



1 HIS was found in Peckham (or Oak of honour) 

 wood Od:. 9 and i6, 1794, tolerably plentiful. When 

 young it is enveloped in a veil of gluten, which is 

 durable on the dried fpecimen, and has a beautiful 

 tranfparent appearance like ilinglafs. The gills are 

 of a rully iron colour, rounded at their bafe, and 

 detached from the ftalk, though partly connected 

 by cobweb-like threads inclining downwards. Simi- 

 lar threads arife upwards from the annulus^ meeting 

 the former. The fialk is nearly folid, but rather pithy. 



TAB. X. 



AGARICUS FRAGRANS, MajoT Velley in With. v. 3. 307. 



JN OT uncommon among grafs in fpring and au- 

 tumn. I have frequently found it by the fragrance it 

 emits to a confiderable diftance, and which is often fo 

 powerful as to fcent a whole box of other fungi. It is 

 however fometimes fcentlefs, and the odour always eva- 

 porates in dr^dng. This odour refembles that of Wood- 

 roof, or of Vernal grafs Anthoxanthum odoratum^ near 

 which laft it often grows. Can it derive any fragrance 

 from thence r 



