CRYPTOGAMIA FUXGI. ioi^ 



Milky Agaric. Jnglls. 



In woods frequent. We obferv'd it at Blair in 

 Jlhol, at Buplin near Perth^ &c. IX, 



The ftalk is about two or three inches high, firm 



and folid, of a finger's thickaefs, and generally 



of a reddilli brown color. The Pileus is nearly 



of the fame color as the ftalk, from one to 



'' ' ' four inches in diameter, fmooth or flightly vil- 



'^ lofe, the centre deprefled, the rim deflex'd. 

 The gills are ufually of the fame colour with 

 the PiiiUS, and both when woundetl yield a 

 white milky juice, of a mild inoffcnfive tafte, 

 very obvious in the younger plants, but fcarcely 

 vifible in the old ones. 



This is reputed to be one of the befl: kinds for 

 the table, though never, I believe, eaten in 

 England. .-•,.., 



1 Jailer makes this and the A. deliciofus Lin. to be 

 only varieties of each other. This laft however 



, bleeds with a yellow or faffron juice, and the 

 Pileus is villofe, and mnrk'd with alternate con- 

 centric circles of paler and darker colors. 

 Th.is we do not remember to have yet found 

 ' in Britain. See its fig. Scha'f. t. ii, 12. opt. 



I Jailer. I J civet, hijl. 2419. 



fiperatusS. A. flipitatus, pileo planiufculo la£tefcenie, mar- 

 • • gine deficxo, lamellis incarnato-paliidis. Lin. 

 Sp. pi. I (-41. (Scbi^f. /. 83. opt.) 



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