Agaricus floccosus. Shaggy Mushroom, 



AGARICUS Lin. Gen. PL Fungi, 



Fungus horizontalis, fubtus lamellofus. 

 Rail Syn. Gen. i. Fungi. 

 AGARICUS /<?m>/fc5 ftipitatus fafciculofus, pileo ftipiteque pilofo-fquamofis, e Havofufcis. 

 PICROMYCES tunicatus. Batarr. p. 47. t. 8. H. 

 AGARICUS floccofus. Schmff'er, Icon-. Fung. t. 61» 



Habitat ad radices arborurn, plerumque cefpitofus. | Found at the roots of trees, and generally in clutters. 



STIPES palmaris et ultra, craffitie digiti minimi feu I STALK four inches or more in height, the thicknefs of 

 major, fubcylindraceus, firmus, carnofus, vixf the little finger or larger, fomewhat cylindri^ 



fftulofus, interne albus, fupra annulum nudus, 1 cal, firm, flemy, fcarcely hollow, white within, 



infra filamentafus, pileo concolor. % above the ring naked, below maggy^ of the 



I fame colour as the cap. 



ANNULUS parvus, paulo infra pileum pofitus, f RING fmall, placed a little beneath the cap. 



VELUM araneofum, fugaciffimum. | VEIL cob-webby and very fugacious. 



PILEUS; Pilei diameter fefquiuncialis ad palmarem, ^ CAP : from an inch and a half to four inches in dia- 

 flavo-fufcus, convexus, in centra nonnunquam t meter, of a yellow-brown colour, convex, 



faftigiatus, pilofo-fquamofus. Lamella plu-f fometimes rifing to a point in the middle, 



rimae, confertae, inaequales, ex albo lutefcentes. ? flaggy- Gills numerous, clofe, irregular, of 



* a yellowim-white colour. 



It doth not appear, that this Mumroom is defcribed either by Mr. Ray or Mr. Hudson. It approaches very near 

 to the fquamojas of the latter, and of which Baron Haller feems difpofed to confider it as a variety; to us it 

 appears to be a fpecies perfectly diftincl:. 



Batarra gives an indifferent figure of it; Sch^ffer an exceeding good one, very expreffive of the plant w« 

 intend : the fpecimens from whence his drawings were made feem to have been fmaller than ours, and fome of 

 them more pointed, which they fometimes are. Thofe reprefented on our plate were found about the middle of 

 October, growing at the bottom of a pear-tree in the garden of Mr. John Chorley, at South Lambeth, where 

 they come up regularly every year. I have alfo frequently found this fpecies in the Oak of Honour Wood near 

 Peckham. So far as I have remarked, it always grows out of wood, in which refpect it differs from the 

 fmetarius, which alio has a ragged head, but grows out of earth, and has a much longer cap. 



When young this Fungus is principally diftinguiihed by the roughnefs of its cap, which appears almoft prickly. 

 Its colour varies from a dingy to a more lively brown. 



It is not of the eatable kind ; nor do we know any inftance of it proving poifonous 7 the maggots of flies 

 devour it. 



