CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI. i&ii 



Little Champignion or Fairy Agaric, AngUs. 



In dry pallures, and frequently in thofe green 



circles of grafs call'd Fairy Ilings^ fuppos'd by 



the vulgar to be made by the dancing of 



fairiesy but which many naturaiifts imagine to 



z' ' :, be occafioned by li ghtni ng, and fome that they 



are caus'd by ants or ^other in/e&. IX. X. 

 .. ... -.-.,. The whole of this Agaric is of a dirty white co- 

 ^j. i lor, the fubftance dry, with very little flelh, 



and in decay tough and leathern. 

 V I. r^ '. - The flalk is about two inches high, remarkably 

 I . , ... .^ tough, thickeft at the top where it is inferted 

 , _ ■-. . ; into the Pileus. ., .^ ; ;,^\^-',_' 



; • The Fikus is about the fize of a half-crown 



i , • piece, a little elevated or convex in the center. 



.V, . The gills are alternately extended from the rim 



., towards the ftalk, but in general do not quite 



_ ';, ; touch the latter. The intermediate ones are 



extended but halfway. 



The French call this Agaric Moufferon ^ and efleem 



it one of the beft for the table. 



Jimetarius A. ftipitatus, pileo companulato lacero, lamellis 



^3* nigris iateraliter flexuofis, ftipite fiftulofo. Sp. 



pi. 1643. (Buxbaum. cent. 4. tab. 27. Sterb, 



fling. 218./. 22. fig. I. K. L. Michel, gen. p. 1 8 r. 



r _ /. 80./. 3. Batarra. p. 53,54. tab, 26. A. B. C, 



'.■ ■ Schcef.fung. tab, 7^8. opt. et "jar ie tales tab„ 



46, 47, ICO. bene.) 



10 Egg 



