i6ii CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI. 



Egg Agaric. JngUs. 



On dunghills, banks of ditches, in gardens, and 

 wafte places about towns and villages, after the 

 autumnal rains, frequent. X. 



It grows either fingle or in clufters. 



The T ileus, at its firft eruption out of the earth, 

 appears feffile, and is of an oval form like an 

 egg, imbricated with large, white, downy, rag- 

 ged fcales, the rim adhering to the ftalk, fo as 

 to hide it entirely. 



As the Fungus advances in its growth, the ftalk 

 - attains to the height of five or fijc inches, and 



is fiftular, downy, and white. The rim of the 

 F'lkus parts from it, and leaves behind a mar- 

 ginal ring, but no proper Volva. After this 

 the Pileus becomes bell-fliap'd and ftriated, and 

 changes often to a grey or moufe color ; the 

 margin next becomes lacerated and reflex'd, 

 and the whole fpeedily melts away into a black 

 inky liquor. 



The gills at firft are very thin and deep, nume- 

 rous, and crowded clofe together ; white and 

 mealy, with a flight tinge of red. In deCay 

 they turn black, and diflblve with the PikUs. 

 The feeds are oval. 



campanula- A. ftipitatus, pileo campanulato ftriato pellucido,- 

 tus 14. lamellis adfcendentibus, ftipite nudo. Sp. pi. 



1643. 



