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purplish-brown on a yellow ground, deepest in the centre, 

 which is slightly umbonate ; margin thin and entire. Gills 

 kings-yellow, numerous, broad, fixed 4 in a set ; flesh 

 yellowish, without a coloured juice. Probably poisonous. 



14, A. stipitis, clustered, dry; stalk cylindrical, firm, fibrillose, 

 with a persistent collar ; pileus circular, slightly convex, scaly, 

 yellow-brown; gills dull white, rather distant, numerous WITH. 

 iv. 224. Sow. Fung. t. 101. HOOK. Scot. ii. 20. Ag. melleus, 

 GIIEV. Fl Edin. 371. ; Crypt. Fl. t. 332. 



Hab* About the stumps of trees in woods, not uncommon. 



This attains a good size, and is distinguished by its dry rigid 

 texture. Its circular pileus often cracks, but never turns 

 up in decay. It remains long unchanged. Poisonous. 

 " Almost all fungi are injurious which grow in a tufted 

 manner, and especially those on the trunks of trees, and 

 similar situations." GREVILLE. 



15. A. muscarius, stalk white, ringed, with a bulbous root ; gills 

 white, numerous ; pileus scarlet, spotted with whitish warts. 

 LIGHTF. Scot. 1010. WITH. iv. 217. Sow. Fung. t. 286. BOLT. 

 Fung. t. 27- ; and An. nobilis, tab. 46. Amanita muscuma, HOOK. 

 Scot. ii. 19. GREV. Fl. Edin. 369. ; Crypt. Fl. t. 54. 



Hab. Amongst brushwood in a heathy soil. From Che- 

 viot, Dr Thomson. Near Longformacus, Berwickshire, 

 abundant. Autumn. 



Stalk 3-6 inches high, thick, straight, cylindrical, bulbous 

 and scaly at the base, somewhat enlarged at the top, and 

 furnished with a large fixed collar. Pileus at first hemi- 

 spherical, becoming in its progress nearly plane, and ulti- 

 mately a little cupped. It varies in colour from a uniform 

 scarlet to orange-yellow, the red appearing only in the 

 centre ; and it is sometimes almost naked, or destitute of 

 those angular white or cream-coloured warts which in ge- 

 neral so agreeably relieve the ground colour. Gills broad, 

 ventricose, close. Flesh white, tinged with orange-yellow. 

 The most beautiful of the agarics; but let no one be 

 tempted by its appearance to apply it to domestic use, for 

 a poison lurks beneath its brilliant colours. LINNAEUS in- 

 forms us that in Finmark they cut it into small pieces, 

 mix them with milk, and place it at their windows for the 

 purpose of poisoning flies, to which it proves as fatal as 

 arsenic. In corroboration of this fact, I have observed 



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