soiQ CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI. 



The fubftance breaks fliort, and is a little acrid, 

 - . but is frequently eaten in Germany and RuJJia. 



mufcarius A. flipitatus, lamellis dimidiatis folitariis, flipite 

 3' volvato, apice dilatato, bafi ovato. Sp. pi. 



1640. {Ger, emnc. 1481. ad imum paging ad 

 finifiram. Sterbeck. tab. 22. A. Michel, gen. 

 t. yS.f. I. 2. A. B. c. Schffffer. t. 27. opt. & 

 /. 28. abfque verrucis.) 

 Bug Agaric. Anglis. 



This, and ahnoft the whole genus, are call'd with- 

 out diftinftion in Scotland^ Paddock-Stools. 

 ... % In woods not unfrequcnt. "We obferv'd it at 



Blair in Athol, and in the woods at the cafcades 

 of Monefs near T^aymcuth., &c. IX. X. 

 This is a very elegant fpecies. 

 The ftalk is white, thick, iblid when young, bul- 

 . ^ , bous at the bafe, and furrounded in the middle 



with a broad, lax, pendulous, annular mem- 

 brane, call'd by Linnaeus a Vclva, but which 

 , : •. in reality is only a portion of the Vclva. 



The Pileus when young is hemifpherical, when 



'_ _ full groV(?n nearly flat, large, often fix or eight 



inches wide, of a red color, fpotted over with 



;'; '. white, angular, downy warts, which are the 



:•; , ._'. remains of the Folva with which the Pileus h 



envelop'd at its firft eruption from the earth. 

 ,-'.~^ The gills are numerous and white, the greatefl. 



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