TAB. CXLIV. 



AGARICUS AROMATICUS. 



GLUTINOSUS. Bull t. 258. Sc 539. 



r IRST fent me by Mr. B. M. Forfter. Found at 

 Walthamftow. The agreeable fpicy odour fuggefted 

 its name. It appears to be A. glutinofus of Bulliard, 

 though his gills are colourlefs ; a name applicable to 

 many of the fungi, (and would do for this were it not 

 previoully engaged,) as it is fometimes altogether a 

 gluten, or jelly. The pileus has generally a thick glu- 

 tinous fkin of a cinnamon colour : the gills are fome- 

 what pinky ; they appear to be decurrent in the young 

 jlate, but when advanced they feparate, fo as to appear 

 naturally loofe or feparate from the fiipes, which is 

 fomewhat hollow and pithy. The whole plant when 

 frefli is often fo tender, I have not been able to gather 

 it whole ; in bruiling it becomes blackilli. As the plant 

 dries, the fkin corrugates, and often becomes very 

 prettily reticulated ; (may not this be A. reticulatus of 

 Dr. Withering, ed. 3. 289 .0 The tafte is watery, with a 

 peppermint-like coolnefs in the mouth, and a lafting 

 roughnefs in the throat. 



T A B. CXLV. 



LYCOPERDON radiatum. 



1 HIS remarkably curious and new fpecies, perhaps 

 a new genus, (which, however, feems to belong to 

 the Lycoperdon phalloides of Philofophical Tranfadlions, 

 V. 74. 473. 1. 16. and Spicilegium botanicwjt^ 1. 12.) was fent 

 me from Holt in Norfolk by the Rev. R. B. Francis, 

 who found it on a plaftered wall of a ball-room. The 

 rays appear to be the root by which it is attached to 

 the wall, and are compofed of an infinite number of 

 fine woolly filaments nearly white. The little ball in 

 the centre is nearly folid, and finely tomentofe on the 

 outfide. Under a magnifier we can difcover a fine 

 dull or feed, clofely refembling that of the Lycoperdon 

 phalloides^ but much lefs copious. 



