CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI. '1009 



It has a plcafant fmell, fomething like a ripe 

 plumb, and when properly flew'd, a favoury 

 taile, otherwife tough and fubacrid. 



tnieger 2 . A. ftipitatus, lamellis omnibus magnitndine 

 squalibus. Sp. pi. 1640. {Slerb. t. 22. F. 

 Shajffer. tab. 15. 16. 58. 75. 92. opt. et ejus va- 



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riefateSytab. g2- 94-') 

 Equal-gill'd Agaric. Anglis. 

 In woods frequent. We obferv'd it at Duplin, 



near Perth^ and in Lcgton wood, near Dalkeith, 



■ ''r ' &c. IX. X. 



':' '•' ' ' The Pz7f«j is about three inches in diameter, con- 

 • '-'-'^ • •' ' '- vex, fmooth, and red. The gills are v/hite, 

 • '• • numerous, of equal fize, and generally all ex- 

 tended from the rim to the flalk. The (lalk 

 ' is folid, white, a finger thick, and iliort, being 



only about two inches high. The feeds are 

 • "''">-■•• globular, and may be eafily difcerned by the 

 ■ '-''' ' ' microfcope, if a fmall porcion of a ripe gill be 

 put into a little water in the watch-glafs, or into 

 adrop of water upon the glafs-flider belonging 

 ' , to the apparatus, for they will loon be detached 



■ from the gill, and appear in the water. 



Though the natural color of the Piieiis is red, it 

 is yet Ibmecimes found of a dirty white, a 

 ' ■ tawny brown, and a blue-green color. 

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