T A B. CCIX. 



AGARICUS viOLACEus. Linn. Sp. PL 1641. fVith.v.^ 

 p. 207. 



i HIS varies to a purple all over. The flipes is very 

 cottony, extending to the edge of the pileus, and forms 

 an annulus which often catches the ferruginous feeds. 

 The tafte is fimilar to A. campejlris^ the common 

 mufliroom, but not fo good. This fpecies is fome- 

 times fold at Covent-garden market, under the name 

 of Blewits for making ketchup. 



TAB. CCX. 



AGARICUS TURFOSus. 



1 W A S favoured with thcfe gathered by the Rev. Mr. 

 Francis of Holt, Norfolk, November 1798, who finds 

 them on heathy ground where turf ftacks have Hood. 

 They fomewhat refemble Merulius fcetidus of the 

 Rev. R. Relhan. See Eng. Fung. tab. 21. They how- 

 ever have little fcent, and the ftipes is fmooth, the 

 whole plant alfo lefs rigid. Perhaps it fliould be a 

 Merulius ? I hope to fettle that point at the end of the 

 w'ork. 



