CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI, 102 x; 



Little Champignion or Faiiy Agaric. AngUs. 



In dry pailures, and frequently in thofe green 

 circles of grafs call'd Fairy Rings^ fuppos'd by 

 the vulgar to be made by the dancing of 

 fairies^ but which many naturalills imagine to 

 be occaiioned by lightning, and fome that they 

 are caus'd by ants or other infeds. IX. X. 



The whole of this Agaric is of a dirty white co- 

 lor, the fubllance dry, with very little flelh, 

 and in decay tough and leathern. 



The ftalk is about two inches high, remarkably 

 tough, thickeft at the top where it is inferted 

 into the Fiieus. 



The Pikus is about the fize of a half-crown 

 piece, a little elevated or convex in the center. 



The gills are alternately extended from the rim 

 towards the ftalk, but in general do not quite 

 touch the latter. The intermediate ones are 

 extended but half way. 



The French call this Agaric Moujfemi, and efteem 

 it one of the bed for the table. 



fimetarius A. ftipitatus, pileo companulato lacero, lamellis 

 '3- riigris lateraliter flexuofis, ftipite fiflulofo. Sp, 



pi. 1643. (Buxhaum. cent. 4. tab. 27. Sierb, 

 fung. 2\^j.i2.Jig. I, K. L. Michel, gen. p. 181. 

 t. 80./ 3. Batarra. p. ShS-^- tab. 26. A. B. C 

 Schcef. fling, tab, y ^ B. opt. et varietates fak 

 .46, 47, 100. bene.) 



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