Agarigus carnosus. Fleshy Mushroom. 



AGARICUS carnofus pileo convexo albo, medio rufefcente, lamellis confertis albis carne pilei duplo 

 1 anguftioribus. 



In fylvis acerofis habitat nobifcum rarior, autumno | Found with us in pine woods in the autumn fcarce 

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Solitarius plerumque invenitur, fubinde cefpitofus. | Is generally found growing fingly, Sometimes in cluftersi 



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 STIPES triuncialis et ultra, magnitudine fere digiti | STALK three inches high and upwards, almoft the 

 minimi, craflus, nudus, fiftulofus, carne dia- y thicknefs of the little finger, clumfy naked 



metro tubi, firraus, albidus, faepe rubro macu- J hollow, the fleih the diameter of the tube' 



latus, parum ftriatus, bafi intra folia pini $ firm, whitiih, often fpotted with red, faintly 



emortua defcendente. | ftriated, the bafe defcending amongft the dead 



| pine leaves. 



PILEUS uncialis, ad triuncialem, albidus, medio ru- |CAP from one to three inches in diameter, reddiih in 



befcens, et hinc inde maculis concoloribus ? the middle, and here and there blotched with 



adfperlus, laevis, camofus, carne multo, folido, | fpots of the fame colour, fmooth, fleihy the 



albo, primo convexus, dein planiufculus, nee $ flefh abundant, folid, white, firft convex 



acris, nee ladefcens. | finally almoft flat, neither acrid nor milky. ' 



LAMELLA numerofiflimas, albidae, angufta, fefqui- | GILLS exceedingly numerous, whitifh, narrow, a line 

 lineam latae, brevioribus interjeclis, demum | and a half broad, fhorter ones kitervenbg 



rufefcentes. $ finally of a reddifh brown colour. 



We can find no certain traces bf this fungus either in the figures or defcriptions of authors ; at feaft in thofe of 

 our own country. This may perhaps arife, from its being a local, or at leaf! not a common mulhroom. 



We have hitherto found it only in Lord Mansfield's fmall pine wood, Hampftead, and there in no great plenty ; 

 but having obferved them in the fame fpot, and affuming the fame character for feveral fucceffive years, we are 

 perfectly fatisfied of its being a very diftincT: fpecies. This autumn, Sept. 22, we found about twenty of them. 



It is in fome degree characterifed by the Angularity of its colour. We have few fungi that have a white Pileus, 

 with a reddiih dilk, and that, together with the ftalk, irregularly blotched with the fame colour ; but it is more 

 diflinguilhed by the quantity of flefh both in the Pileus and Stipes. It is this which gives it an unufual degree of 

 firmnefs to the touch, and has induced us to beftow on it the name of carnofus. 



Chewed, it difcovers no unpleafant tafte; but notwithftanding this circumftance, and notwithftanding Its 

 tempting appearance, we muffc, till we have further proofs of its innocence, place it at leaft among the fufpicious 

 fungi. 



