SOWERBY’S DRAWINGS OF FUNGI 268 
384. Agaricus (Cottysia) veLutires Curt. The original of this 
eat pencil sketch with three smaller growths at the base; 
not a single small growth as on the plate 
ATARREA PHALLOIDES Pers. There is a coloured original 
e visib 
There is only one note, ‘‘ mo 
407. Acaricus (Toca) precox Pers. Sowerby names this 
plate A. virosus Sow., but his description of 407 really belongs 
to 408, and the eadeiotion of 408 applies to 407. Sowerby 
and A. semiglobatus With., but the two plates really represent 
several different species of Agaricus. Plate 407 is represented in 
as regards colour—is a very copy. al, w 
doubt, belongs to A. precox Pers. eight is added to this identi- 
fication by the two dates and locality, “J 14th’ 
796 ’—* Kensington G: s.”’ The original coloured drawing 
ves five examples and a section. In the rpress descriptio 
of 407 and 408, Sowerby says that si plants engraved have been 
mistaken for champignons, which, say, had received 
‘‘the trivial name of Orcades’ “iit oed oreades. n 
says that ‘“* M* Bolton—I belive was the first to give it this title” — 
but Bolton really does not use the word; Bolton names his t. 151 
can be placed on what Sowerb says about the ‘Mitcham case— 
‘nearly proved fatal to families at Mitcham and Christchurch,” 
the ag represented on 407-8 belong to different subgenera of 
Agate 
sae Pe eis ee it Ge Fr and A ja 
PHARIA) seMIcLopatus Batsch. Ag betes! (Strpharia semiglobatus, 
Nos. 4 and 13 on plate; there is only one example on the original 
Agaricus dent ia) stercor deni 11, 12, 14 on plate; numbered 8, 
2, 3 on the orig ris here is a note to this,— ‘the same with nitens 
a”? “nt 
he vevclen ‘tis the base of the stem obliquely 
cut off, showing it “to be hollow. Fig. 2 on the drawing has the 
stem cea to the base. Fig. 7: the gills are not ee on the 
original, and the colours do not exactly agree. There note in 
pencil on the back of the original drawing ‘which Sivioasly refers to 
A. semiglobatus, very well illustrated in fig. 18 :—‘‘T am induced to 
put in such varieties as perhaps may seem quite inconsistent with 
the common appearance a general character of this Agaric, which 
i i and whie 
many species in 
i efhenen species, I dare not innocently indulge the eaters as 
