Ord. IX. Triue I. 
FUNGI HYMENOMYCETES. 
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H YMENOMYCE TES. 
Class I. Hymenini. — Div. I. Pileati. 
* Volva loose : edge of the cap smooth. Unwholesome. 
15731 Cap somewhat scaly : edge smooth, Stipes solid nearly equal, Volva loosely sheathed 
15732 Cap somewhat scaly : edge smooth. Stipes hollow at top, Volva connate bulbous 
15733 Cap naked : edge smooth. Stipes somewhat fistular equal, Volva booted 
** Volva loose : edge of the cap striated. Eatable. 
15734. Cap furrowed at edge, Gills white. Stipes fistular tapering nearly naked, Volva sheathing 
15735 Whole plant white. Cap plane or slightly umbonate : the centre often pale ochraceous; margin striato- 
pectinate. Lamella somewhat distant, Stipes solid naked bulbous 
*** Volva obliterated : edge of the cap striated. Poisonous. 
15736 Margin of the cap striated orange-red shining warty rarely naked, Volva vanishing scaly. Stipes bulbous 
15737 Cap equally warted : edge striated. Stipes nearly solid equal, Volva booted adnate 
**** Volva obliterated : edge of the cap smooth. Unwholesome. 
15738 Warts of cap mealy unequal : edge smooth, Flesh pink, Stipes solid somewhat scaly and bulbous 
15739 Cap somewhat umbonate rough with acute warts : edge smooth. Stipes solid somew. taper, squarrulosc 
* Veil finally separate. Gills distant. Eatable. 
15740 Large, Cap scaly. Lamella distant white, Stipes very long bulbous. Collar free 
15741 Skin of cap contiguous. Lamella remote. Stipes equal. Collar free 
** Veil fixed. Skin of the cap peeling off. Gills separate. 
15742 Inodorous, Cap with the epidermis broken into ferruginous scales. Lamella white numerous. Stipes 
subsquamose. Collar mostly fugacious 
15743 Highly odor. Surface of cap white with reddish scales, Lamella distinct. Stipes smooth. Collar fugacious 
*** Veil fixed. Gills separate. Skin of the cap adhering. 
15744 Cap glutinous striated at edge. Lamella loose. Stipes viscid on account of the veil 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
milk, and set it in their windows in order to poison the flies who taste it. This is moucho-more of the Russians, 
Kamtchadales, and Koriars, who use it for intoxication. They sometimes eat it dry, and sometimes iinmerse 
it in a liquor made with the epilobium ; and when they drink this liquor, they are seized with convulsions in 
all their limbs, followed with that kind of raving which attends a burning fever. They personify this mush- 
room ; and if they are urged by its effects to suicide, or any dreadful crime, they pretend to obey its commands. 
To fit themselves for premeditated assassination, they recur to the use of the moucho-more. A powder of the 
root, or of that part of the stem which is covered by the earth, is recommended in epileptic cases, and exter- 
nally applied for dissipating hard globular swellings, and for liealing ulcers. The dose is from half a scruple to 
one, taken thrice a day in water; but a dram administered once a day in vinegar has been thought more 
efficacious. Murray, App. Med. vol. v. p. 560. Dr. Withering enumerates ten varieties of this species. 
\ 2. Lepiota. Terrestrial, solitary, persistent, autumnal fungi, none of which are noxious. Named from 
Xjjr/f, a thin membranous layer or cuticle. The A. procerus, or tall mushroom, is not uncommon on hedge 
banks and dry pastures, and is sometimes exposed to sale in Covent Garden market. It may be distinguished 
from the genuine sort by the sponginess of its flesh ; and from others by its fine and large horizontal ring. The 
gills are white, uniform, and fixed to a collar; the pileus is a broad cone, bossed white-brown, and scaly; the 
stem is scaly, and the ring loose. This plant, when preserved in pickle, is very apt to run into the vinous fer- 
mentation. 
A. xerampelinus is the most splendid of all the agarics. Its gills are fixed, bright golden-yellow, and nearly 
orange under the edge of the pileus, regularly disposed four in a set ; fleshy, brittle, and serrated at the edge 
with a paler cottony matter : the pileus is a fine lake-red, changing with age to a rich orange and buff, and 
every intermediate shade of these colors, which render it very beautiful ; convex, center bossed, edge turned 
down, three to four inches in diameter, clothy to the touch ; flesh pale-buff": stem solid, nearly cylindrical, but 
gradually tapering upwards, rich buff, shaded with fine rose-red, three to five inches high, half inch in 
diameter; flesh pale, buffy, spongy, and elastic. This is common in Italy, and brought to the markets for 
sale. The ancient Romans esteemed it one of the greatest luxuries for the table. It was made the vehicle for 
poison to Claudius Cassar by his wife Agrippina, and has therefore been celebrated by Juvenal and Martial. 
