T A E. CCXLIV. 



AGARICUS GiGANTEUS. Sibth. Oxon. 420. 



F this be Dr. Sibthorp's plant, it will appear he was 

 the firfi: to notice it as a Britifh fpecies, to which it 

 certainly has a claim. The general magnitude of the 

 head on a lliort thick ftipes, and the profufion in 

 which it occurs, Vvdll readily diftinguifli it. I once 

 found it in Richmond Park, where there were fome 

 fpecimens more than nine inches in diameter. The 

 upper part of the ftipes is fomewhat tomentofe. 



TAB. CCXLV. 



AGARICUS l.isTERi. M^itb. ed. 3. v. 4. 158. 



1 BELIEVE this no other than a plant of Agaricus 

 Lijleri^ and think myfelf wrong in making tab. 104 

 Lifter's plant, which is furely another fpecies. A. lac- 

 tifluus acris. Bull. 200; A. acris 538, except H and G ; 

 A. plmnbeu5,tab. 282; and A. plombe, tab. 559, ^ff. 2, 

 are moft likely the true Lifteri. I have found it in 

 great quantities without branched gills, from a parch- 

 ment white, to almoft black *, refembling A. ekphan- 

 timis^ from which it is readily diftinguiflied by the 

 clofenefs of its lamellae: my tab. 104 f has conftantly 

 branched and inofculating lamellse ; and I never found 

 it blacken in decay. 



* In this ftate it is the A. plmnbeus Bull, as above; A., plumhan oi Dr. 

 Withering is undoubtedly a variety of A. mufcarius Linn. 



\ A. pipcratus of moft Englifh authors niuft have another name, fuppofing 

 Dr. Withering right in his idea of K.piperatus. 



