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AGARICUS Stipitis. With. ed. 3. v. 4. 191. 



Very common on ftumps of trees in the autumn, 

 frequently growing in large tlufters, as Dr. Withering 

 obferves. We do not often find it in a perfed ftate : the 

 rain wafliing more or lefs of the beautiful fcalinefs from 

 its pileus, and darkening the colour of the flem, &c. 

 makes great alterations in its appcai-ance. In a young 

 rtate it refembles A. laric'nms^ W. 193, if it be not the 

 Himc fpecics. It varies in colour, fometimes almoft to 

 •white, and often afTumes a pinky hue. This is alfo 

 A. annularius. Bull. t. 377, and t. 540, f. 3. Fujco pallidus, 

 Bolt. t. 136, congregatus^ t. 140, melleits^ t. 141. It has 

 often been figured, and has too many names to be enu- 

 merated here. I beg therefore to refer the reader, as 

 in many other cafes, to the Index- 



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 AGARICUS TURBINATUS. Bull. tab. 110. 



This fpecies feems hitherto to have been overlooked. 

 Lady Arden favoured me with fpecimens from Nork 

 Park, Surrey, where it was growing in plenty from 

 September 20 to November 2, 1796. It has a ftrong 

 impleafant odour and talte, caufing a bitternefs in the 

 throat. The Ikin of the pileus eafily peals, and is 

 often glutinous. The acute-edged bulb (if I may fo 

 call it) is very general. The other leading chara6lers 

 are endeavoured to be expreffcd. We have not known 

 it to have varied much, though it becomes, like moft 

 Agarics, fomewhat diltorted in the latter feafon, af- 

 fuming a cup fliape, and various other forms. 



