10 1 8 CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI. 



. . the /pawn (as they call it) of the Mufhrooms, 

 that is, the white fibrous radicles found about 

 their roots, (which produce tubercles in the 

 manner of potatoes) or elfe they cut out the 

 gills, and either fow them with the feeds in 

 them, or infufe the gills in water, and fprinkle 

 the infufion on the beds. Either method will 

 fucceed, but planting the fpawn or radicles is 

 the moft ufual pradice. * 



In much the fame manner, without doubt, any 

 other fpecies of Fungus may be cultivated, as 

 experiments with the Boletus and Phallus have 

 been already made with fuccefs. 



molaceus 8. A. ftipitatus, pileo rimofo, margine violaceo to- 

 mentofo, ftipite ceerukfcente lana ferruginea. 

 ■ ' Sp. pL 1 641. (Mtchel. gen. t. 74. /. i. Sclioef- 

 hr.fung. t. 3, 34, y 56. opt.) 



Violet Agaric. Anglis. 



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

 AthoU &c. IX. X. 



The ftalk is as thick as a man's thumb, bulbofe 

 at the bafe, folid, of a violet color, covered 

 with a cobweb ferrugineous down. 



The P ileus is hemilpherical, from two to fix 



inches in diameter, of a violet color, tawny in 



tlie center, the margin, when young, inflefted 



and united to the ftalk, wirh a ferrugineous 



J cobweb 



