1022 CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI. 



Egg Agaric. Anglis, 



On dunghills, banks of ditches, in gardens, and 

 wafte places about towns and villages, after the: 

 autumnal rains, frequent. X. 



It grows either fingle or in cluflers. 



The Pileus, at its firft eruption out of the earth, 

 appears feflile, and is of an oval form like an 

 egg, imbricated with large, white, downy, rag- 

 ged fcales, the rim adhering to the ftalk, fo as 

 to hide it entirely. 



As the Fungus advances in its growth, the ftalk 

 attains to the height of five or fix inches, and 

 is fiftular, downy, and white. The rim of the 

 Pileus parts from it, and leaves behind a mar- 

 ginal ring, but no proper Volva. After this 

 the Pikus becomes bell-fhap'd and ftriated, and 

 changes often to a grey or moufe color •, the 

 margin next becomes lacerated and reflex d, 

 and the whole fpeedily melts away into a black 

 inky liquor. 



The gills at firft are very thin and deep, nume- 

 rous, and crowded clofe together ; white and 

 mealy, v/ith a flight tinge of red. In decay 

 they turn black, and dififolve with the Pileus. 

 The feeds are oval. 



campanula- A. ftipitatus, pileo campanulato ftriato pellucido, 

 tus J 4. lamellis adfcendentibus, ftipite nudo, Sp. pi. 



1643. 



