Agaricus plicatilis. plaited Mushroom. 



AGARICUS Lin. Gen. PL CryptogamU Fungi. . ; , 



Fungus hbrizontalis'j fub.tus lamellofus. 

 Rail Syn. Gen. i. Fungi. - .....,.,., . , , 



AGARICUS plicatilis ftipitatus, pileo campanulato feu piano, murino, pellucido, plicato. 

 AGARICUS crenulatus membranaceus ccerulefcensfulcatus, centro papillari, ftipite exili. Mulkr. FL 



% "'* ■" ■ ; Dan. t. 832. f. 2. .„.,.;,.,', . 



FUNGUS perpufillus, pediculo oblongo, pileolo tenui, utrinque ftriato, feu flabelli in modum plicatUL 



Rati. Syn.p.%. n. 24? 



Batarr. Fung. Tab. 27. B. C. 



STIPES folitarius, in adultis biuncialis et ultra,- mag-.| 

 nitudine culmi triticei minoris, ere&us, teres, | 

 filiformis, fiftuloms, Levis, albus, tener. 



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 PILEUS cum primo erumpit nucleum nucis ayellanse | 

 magnitudine aequat, e flavo-fufcus, vix ma- * 

 nifefte ftriatus, cito oblongo campanulatus 

 evadit, ftrise fubundulatze magis luculenter 

 apparent, color in murinum incipit tranfire, 

 nunc adultus, forma in campanulatam muta- 

 tur, mox evafura plana, uncialis feu fefqui- 

 uncialis, murinus, vertice piano, fufco feu 

 albido, tenellus, plicatus ; cutis diaphanus, 

 line carne, fuperne farina nulla adfperfus, 

 faftigiis plicarum fubvillofis, pera&a floref- 

 centia margo invertitur et nigrefcit. 



LAMELLAE paucae, concolores, pulverem fubtiliuimum | 

 e caeruleo-nigricantem effundentes. ^ 



STALKS (ingle, in thofe which are full grown two 



inches or more in height, the fize of a fmall 



; wheat ftraw, upright, round, of the lame 



: ...... . ' thicknefs throughout, hollow, fmooth, white, 



and tender. 



CAP when it firft fprings up is about the fize of the 

 kernel of a hazle nut, of a yellowim brown 

 colour, fcarce preceptibly ftriated, it foon 

 1 . becomes of an oblong bell-fhape, the fmall 

 furrows appear more evidently, are fome- 

 what waved, and the colour changes to grey 

 or moufe colour, now full grown, it becomes 

 more bell-maped, and afterwards appears 

 flat, is from an inch to an inch and half in 

 diameter, of a moufe colour, tender, plaited, 

 the crown flat, brown or wbitifh ; the fkin 

 tranfparent, without any flefh, at top not 

 fprinkled with meal, the ridges of the plaits 

 fomewhat villous, when the fructification is 

 over, the edge becomes black and turns in. 



GILLS few, of the fame colour as the cap, throwing 

 out a very fine powder of a blueifh-black 

 colour. 



THE Mufhroom here figured in its feveral ftatesis one of thofe, whofe caps in decaying diflblve into a black 

 liquid, thefein general are of fhort ^duration, and this being of fo thin and delicate a fubftance is particularly fo. 

 On the twelfth of September ten or'twelve of thefe of different ages made their appearance on a grafs plat in my gar- 

 den, and on the fixteenth no traces of them were to be feen. 



, Its ufual place of growth is in Paftures, Meadows, and Grafs Plats, in all of which it is not un frequent in the 



Months of September and October. 



. The Cap is fo remarkably plaited, or fan-like, that we could not but prefer a name exprefiive of fo chara&e- 

 riftic a circumftance to Mullers term crenulatus, the Agaricus tenellus of Mr. Hudson approaches fo nearto ours 

 from his defection, that we mould have confidered it as the lame, had not Plukenets figure quoted by him bees 

 very different. 



