Agaricus glutinosus. Slimy Mushroo 



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AGARICUS Lin, Gen. PI. Fungi. 



Fungus horizontalis, fubtus lamellofus. 

 Raii. Syn. Gen, i. Fungi. 

 AGARICUS glutinofus pileo hemifphasrico ftramineo vifcido, lamellis horizontalibus, annulo obfoleto. 

 FUNGI pratenfes minores, externe vifcidi, albi et lutei, pediculis brevibus. Rah', Syn, p. 7. t I 



STIPES plerumque folitarius, fubinde multiplex, $ STALKS generally fingle, fometimes cluttered, from 



bipollicaris ad palmarem, craffitie pennae % two to four inches in height, the thicknefs of 



coracis, filiformis, albidus, pene folidus, | a crow quill, thread-fhaped, whitifh, almofl 



tubo minimo, glutinofus. £ folid, the tube being very fmall, glutinous. 



ANNULUS pauio infra pileum obfoletus. | RING a little below the cap, fcarce perceptible. 



V-1L-EUS uncialis, ad biuncialem, ftramineus, in adultis ^ CAP from one to two inches in breadth, of a ftraw 



herhifphaericus, femper convexus, et glutine i colour ; in the full grown ones hemifpherical, 



plus minufve obduclius, pluviis madefaclus | always convex, and more or lefs glutinous, 



m igis fufcefcit, et diaphanus evadit, unde £ wet with rain it becomes browner and tranf- 



ftriatus aliquando apparet. | parent, fo that it fometimes appears as if 



I filiated. 



.LAMEUL-'!E plurima?, limplices, e fufco purpurafcentes, f GILLS numerous, fingle, of a brownifh purple colour, 



nebulofas, integris circiter 20, horizontalibus, | clouded, whole ones about twenty, horizon- 



fig. 1. tribus brevioribus interpofitis, fig. 2. 3. t tal, fig. 1. three morter ones placed betwixt 



Puiverem erfunduut e fufco purpurafcentem. | them fig. 2. 3. they throw out a Powder of 



^ a brownifh purple colour. 



j^/V. 5. Fruftulum lamella; vitro audum, exhibens Cap- ¥ Fig. 5. a fmall piece of the gill magnified, in which 



fulas kminiferas quaternas. X are fhewn the Capfules which contain the 



•% feeds placed four together. 



Lilhologia mibi crijlas mn eriget, fays LlNNiEUS in the preface to his mineralogy; he might with equal pro- 

 priety have applied the fame expreffions to himfelf refpecling the Fungi, as in the laft edition of his Syfiema vege- 

 -lahilium we are prefented with no more than twenty-four fpecies of Jgarici Stipitati, or Mufhrooms with ftalks : 

 Micheli on the contrary has given us Six-hundred and thirty-four ; Ray in the third edition of his -Synopfis has 

 iifty-feven fpecies, fourteen of which are added by Dillenius ; Gleditsch who has written a particular trea- 

 t'ife on the Fungi, reduces the jgarici to thirty-two fpecies, but informs us that there are one hundred and twenty 

 more, involved in much obfeurity; Scopoli defcribes one hundred and fourteen, and Haller one hundred and 

 4 hirty four ; Mr. Hudson in the laft edition of his Flora Anglic a enumerates forty fix, and Mr. Lightfoot accu- 

 rately defcribes twenty in his Flora Scotica ; and yet amidft all thefe enumerations and defcriptions, fcarce any 

 two of them are agreed about the fame Fungus ; of the hundred and fourteen defcribed by Scopoli there are 

 only eleven which have the names of Linn^us, the procerus of Scopoli is the annulatus of Lightfoot, the 

 -cormceus of Lightfoot is the pratenjis of Hudson, while the coriaceus and pratenfa of Scopoli differ from 

 -ooth theirs. 



Amidft this confute* of Authors, arifing partly from the intricacy of the fubject, and partly from their inatten- 

 tion to fpecilic chara£uers, we fhall be often obliged to be fparing in ourfvnonyms, and occafionaliy find it necef- 

 darv to introduce a new name as in the prefent inftance. 



Although the Fungus here figured is a very common one, we are not able with abfolute certainty to fay that 

 it is either in Ray, Linnjeus, Scopoli, Lightfoot, or Hudson, the name of glutinofus is therefore given it, as 

 it always is more or lefs fLimy, and which fliminefs is not confined to the upper part of the cap, but extends to 

 the frail: : this characler joined to the roundnefs of the cap, and the horizontal appearance of the gills, which 

 form a ilraight line from the edge of the Cap to the ftalk, wil| always readily diftinguifh this Mufhroom. 



The Cap varies in lize from two lines to two inches in diameter, and the ftem from one to four or five in 

 height, the ufual colour of the cap is of a pale ftraw colour, fometimes inclined more to the yellow, and fome- 

 times more to a dirty brown, efpecially when wet ; it is gradual in its decay, not quickly dhTolving as fome do, nor 



•drying up like others. 



It moil commonly grows fnagly, but fometimes fprings up in clutters, efpecially on thofe fpots where dung 



has been thrown. 



Its place of growth is in expofed, and elevated paftures, efpecially fuch as are moift, it may indeed be found 

 in molr meadows, and fometimes in great abundance, the particular places where I have_ been accuftomed to find 

 it plentifully, are on Peckbam-Rye, and in the paftures about the Oak of Honour Wood, 'alio in the pafture one 

 afcend?, before entering Hornfey-Wood, going from IJlingtcn. 



About the latter end of Oaober they are moft plentiful, but may be found earlier as well as later. 



"There is nothing acrimonious or difagreeable in the tafte of it, yet its appearance will not recommend it to 

 the lovers of Mumrooms. 



