will more readily fplit than feparate, till in advancing 

 to decay, the pileus expanding, fome occafionally fplit 

 and fome feparate elaftically, fo as to difperfe the feed 

 from their pores, hi wet weather they decay at the 

 edges into an inky fluid, like the following fpecies. 



TAB. CLXXXIX. 



AGARICUS cYLiNDRicus. With. v. 4. 286. Scbaff. 46, 



47, & 48. 

 AGARICUS FiMETARius. Curt. Lond.fafc. 2. /. 73. 



r OUND growing occafionally every where, more 

 particularly among garden fweepings, and other rub- 

 bilh in damp places, Angle, or in chillers. Stipes hol- 

 low, containing a pith refembling a thread of cotton. 

 Th'" pileus is more cylindrical than any other Agaric 

 at prefent known, even in the general appearance; 

 and I once faw it at Sir Abraham Hume's, Bart. Hert- 

 fordfhire, full four inches long, and only one and a 

 iialf in diameter. Some of the plants are eighteen 

 inches high, in the advanced ftate decaying at the 

 edges of the pileus, the feeds with the gills dropping 

 off in a fluid ftate. The annulus is remarkably per- 

 manent, though fmall. 



TAB. CXC. 



AGARICUS PROCERUS. Schc?ff. 18, 19, 32, &: 33. With. 

 'L'. 4. 271. Hudf. 612. Curt. Lond.fafc. 4. t. 69. 



A COMMON plant, varying but little except in 

 proportion. The ftipes is fomewhat fibrous and brit- 

 tle. The gills are lefs brittle, and join to the pileus 

 half an inch from the ftipes. The pileus is tough 

 and fpongy, efpecially when dry ; the annulus double; 

 the outermoft refembling the coating of the pileus, 

 the inner its fpongy fubftance : fo alfo are the fcales of 

 the pileus. 



