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with a fmall round head, of a beautiful fcarlet, gloffy like fattin, 

 with white fuiile conic rays at diftnnces, like thofe of the flellate 

 Lycopsrdon, forming an elegant vai legation. The pedicle gradu- 

 ally rifes higher, from an inch to three or four inches. The 

 head alfo gradually expands, from an inch to three inches in dia- 

 meter. The gills are fine, clofc fet, and white. It is of a good 

 fmell, and excelh all others that I have feen for beauty. It holds 

 its colour and glofs a long time in drying, under proper ma- 

 nagement. 



10. Bloody Alu/hrome, 'with white ivarts, 'white gills, and a 'white 

 bulbous pedicle (-w)> is frequent in meadows. The bulb is of a 

 remarkable thicknefs. The pedicle rifes gradually to an un- 

 common length, with an annular membrane, which foon va- 

 nifhes, of a pure white. The head is firft companiform, and 

 and afterwards flat, of a vaft fize, fometimes a foot in diameter; 

 of a deep blood-red, variegated with warts, and ftriated at the 

 edges. The gills are thin, numerous, and white. It is of a 

 moil ungrateful foetid fmell, and poifonous. We are informed 

 by a learned foreigner, that it killed five men with its virulent 

 poifon in Lithuania *. It is much coveted by fmall flies, and for 

 thatreafon is fometimes called thzFlie-MuJhrome, 



(w) Fungorum pernicioforum genus, xii. Cluf. Sp. 4. p. ccclxxx. cum Icone. Fungus 

 mulcaiius. Trag. p. 941. Cord, in Diof:. p. 68. Fungi venenati mufcarii fpecies iv. I. B. 

 iii. p. 841. Fungus pileolo defuper fature rubro, & ad Laccte colorem accedente, ad eras 

 ftriato, infcrne albo, pediculo palmari, cylindrico & anulato. Michel. Gen. PI. p. 186. 

 Fungus non vefcus II. Ltefelii. PrufT. p. 88. (qui anulum diam vidit.) Agaricus caulefcens 

 petiolo albo ad bafin globofo, pileo fanguineo, verrucis & lamellis albis. Linn, Flo. Lapp, 

 n. 515. Fungus pileo fanguineo verrucofo, lamellis albis, anulo fugaci, pediculo bulbofo. 

 Hail. Helv. p. 39. nomen hoc, et Linnaei, optimum, 



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