I03O CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI. 



each of them divided into two thick open La-> 

 mhtoe, in the fiflure of which the feeds are feme- 

 times vifible. 



femlpetiola- A. fubacaulis lasvis albidus, lamellis fimplicibus 



^^^ 23. pallide fufcis. — Vaill. pari/, t. 10. f. 7. et for. 



taffe Michel, gen. t. 6^. fig- 6. et 7. Buxbaum. 



Cent. §. t. JO. f. I. 2. an Jgaricus niveus ? Ja- 



quin. Fl. Jufiriac. /. 288J 



Short-ftalk'd Agaric. Jnglis. 



Upon the trunks of fallen trees and decay'd tim- 

 ber. XI. 



It grows horizontal, fometimes fmgle, but gene- 



. rally feveral together lying over one another, of 

 a dry leathern fubftance, a fmooth furface, and 

 either a white or pale yellowifh color. 



The Pileus is about three quarters of a circle in 

 circumference, and generally about an inch in 

 diameter, fometimes fefiile, but moft commonly 

 furnilhed with a fhort fpurious footftalk infert- 

 ed laterally into the Pileus, on the defeftive 

 fide of its circumference. 



The gills are numerous and fine, ufually of a 

 pale brown color, fometimes decurrent. 



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