TAB. CCLXXXVI. 



AGARICUS MUSCARius. With. v. 4. 184. 



JriERE is an example of running into error by being 

 too nice ; Linnaeus feems to have defcribed this plant 

 but once, and we with great pleafure go back to our 

 original mallier. The varieties that occur have been 

 by different authors defcribed as fo many fpecies. I muft 

 notice fome of its varieties here, with a few of their 

 fynonyms ; but will endeavour to enumerate them 

 more fully hereafter. The whole plant is fometimes 

 yellow, wlience Schaeifer's A. citrinus, exhibited in my 

 fmalleft figure. Small varieties of the red one with 

 the remains of the annulus beautifully fpotting the 

 pileus, are called Agarkus imperialis by Batfch, and 

 without the fpots A. Puella. When of a lead colour 

 it has been called A. plumbens by Schoeffer, and others. 

 On account of its being fpotted it has been called 

 A. maciilatus ; when the fpots are fmall A. pujiulatus, 

 fee Schasffer tab. 90 and 91. When the fpots refemble 

 warts it has been called A. verrucofus by Curtis, 8cc. 

 when tawny A.fulvus by Schaeffer. A. biilbofus Schasf- 

 fer, &c. is another variety. This plant confifts of 

 more parts than any other Agaric we know of, 

 having a volva, annulus, and ftipes*. We have occafion- 

 ally met with an Agaric in all refpeds like thefe, but 

 wanting the annulus, which however feems fcarcely 

 to conftitute it a fpecies. Linn^us fays this is a molt 

 poifonous Agaric, and that a deco(ftion of it in milk 

 will deftroy mufaz or flies ; whence its name. He alfo 

 recommends it as delfrudive to the Cimex leSiidarius 

 or bed bug, by being applied to furniture twice or 

 thrice in a feafon. 



TAB. CCLXXXVII. 



AGARICUS RACEMOsus. 





i- HIS fmgular Agaric we have once met with in 

 Peckham wood, in Odtober 17CJ4. It was unluckily 

 gathered too precipitately,and therefore we are ignorant 

 what fort of a root it had, or whether it was parafitical 

 like that figured by Mr. Perfoon, in his Tentamen Dif- 

 pofitionis Methodicas Fungorum, tab. 3, fig. 8, which 

 is parafitical on a fimilar fublfance with our Peziza 

 tuberofa, fee tab. 63. Perfoon calls the latter Sclerothim 

 lacunojum^ tab. '^,Jjg. 7. 



* It mnft be remembered that the volva of Linnseus is now called the 

 annulus, and lu-lum, or veil, by Withering, when thin or tranfparent. 



