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limaci‘nus. 
CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus.) Solid and Des 
current. WHITE. 
Pizeus pale reddish brown; glass-shaped, but with a small rising 
.., in the centre; ' thin and skinny, irregular, with one or 
more large notches. in the'edge, 2 to 5 inches over. 
Stem solid, spongy, pee brown, nearly cylindrical,..2 to 4 inches 
. high, from 3.to z inch diameter ; flesh, or rather pith, 
with several irregular perforations. ~. .- 
Root an oval bulb formed by an enlargement of the stem. 
Agi membranaceus. Fle dane ss 
__ In fir plantations, Edgbaston. aor, Oct. 1790, 
Var. 2. Pileus yellowish white, flat, bossed: stem white. 
Giuts decurrent, brownish white, 4 in aset. 
Pirevs'yellowish white, nearly flat, with a permanent boss’ in 
the centre, 6 or 7 inches over. : 
Stem solid, gy, white, 4 inches high, full 2 inch diameter, 
_ cylindrical, but rather bulbous at the base. 
‘This plant is at first sight very unlike the inverted funnel- 
shaped plant of the Flora danica, though on.a strict examina- 
tion there.does not appear sufficient reason to consider it as dis- 
tinct ; but this is certainly the most perfect state of the plant. 
- In Lord Aylesford’s Park, Packington, sagitonan 
Pe $ cy 3 f utumn,. 
Ac. Gills dirty watery white, not numerons, 4in a set: 
pileus pinky brown, nearly flat, edge turned down: 
~ Stem cylindrical, buff, with brown scales. 
ee Scheff. 36. 5. 6. 7. 
Gsuts decurrent, brownish watery white, strong and fleshy, not 
Numerous, four in a set. — 
Pizevs pir pinky brown, from 2% to 4 inches over, nearly flat, 
~but a little bossed in the centre, and the edge turned 
down. When full grown quite flat, the central projec- 
tion disappearing ; and when old quite funnel-shaped. 
Surface clammy when wet, satiny when dry. Flesh 
brownish white Bee nar $ 
Curtain in the young plants composed of whitish cob- 
web-like, straight threads, stretched from the stem over 
the edge of the pileus, and leaving a permanent dark-. 
coloured mark on the stem.. 
Sven solid, buff, yellow at the top, flecked with brown scurfy- 
scales below, 3 to 4 inches high, + to 1 inch diameter, 
nearly cylindrical, seldom quite straight. 
_ This plant ought to have retained Schzffer’s trivial name of 
glutinosus, as he first figured and described it, but Mr. Curtis 
having ater that name to another more common English spe- 
cies, which he has well figured and described, I thought it bet- 
ine take the name of Scopoli which has been adopted by Mr. 
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