A GARICUS GLUTINOSUS. S LIM Y M USHROOM. 
AGARICUS Lw. PL Fungi, 
Fungus horizontalis, fubtus lamellofus. 
Pan, Syn. Gen, i. Fungi. 
AGARICUS^/«//«^j pileo hemlfphajrico Rramineo vifcido, lamellis horizontalibus, annulo obfoleto. 
FUNGI prateufcs minores, externe vifeidi, albi et lutei, pediculis brevibus. Raii. Syn. p. 7. 2 ? 
STIPES plerumque folitarlus, fubinde multiplex, 
bipolHcaris ad palmarem, craffitie pennae 
coracis, filiformis, albidus, pene folidus, 
tubo minimo, glutinofus. 
ANNULUS paulo infra pileum obfoletus. 
PILEUb uncialis, adbiuncialem, ftramiiieus, in adultis 
hemifpha^ricus, femper convexus, et glutine 
plus minufve obduAus, pluviis madefaftus 
; magis fufcefcit, et diaphanus evadit, unde 
Rriatus aliquando apparet. 
LAMELLAE plurima;, fimplices, e fufeo purpurafeentes, 
“ iiebulofie, integris circiter 20, horizontalibus, 
\ fg. I. tribus brevioribus interpofitis, 2. 3. 
Pulverem effundunt e fufeo purpurafceiitem. 
Fig. 5.Fruftulum lamcllie vitro audum, exhibens Cap- 
Julas feminiferas quaternas. 
f STALKS generally fingle, fometimes cluftered, from 
I two to four inches in height, the thicknefs of 
^ a crow quill, thread-fhaped, whitifh, almoft 
i folid, the tube being very fmall, glutinous. 
^ R ING a little below the cap, fcarce perceptible. 
$ CAP from one to_ two inches in breadth, of a ftraw 
I colour; in the full grown ones hemifpherical, 
j always convex, and more or lefs glutinous, 
I wet with rain it becomes browner and tranf- 
.j, parent, lb that it lomctimes appears as if 
f: Rriated. 
I GILLS numerous, fingle, of a brownilh purple colour, 
clouded, whole ones about twenty, horizon- 
I fg- three Ihorter ones placed betwixt 
I them 2. 3. they throw out a Powder of 
j _ a brownilh purple colour. 
I F/g. 5. a fmall piece of the gill magnified, in which 
are Ihewn the Capfules which contain the 
f feeds placed four together. 
l.,thohgm ,mb, cnjlas mn fiys in the preface to his mineralogy ; he might with eoual nrn 
pnety have applied the fame exprefl.ons to liimfelf refpeaing the Fmgi, as in the hft edition of his Synl„a Xe 
taUum we are prefented with no mote than twenty-font Ipecies of Jgarki Stlphati, or Mull, rooms with ftafc- 
Mioheli on the contrary has given us Six-hnndred md thirty-four; Rav in tile third edition of his 
fifty-feveng.ec.es. fourteen of which are added by D.elenius; Gieditscii who has written a partiraW treT 
tife 0.1 the F«jr, reduces tlic to thirty-two lpec.es but informs us that there are one hundred and twSty 
more, involved m much obfcurity ; ScoFOLl defcribes one hundred and fourteen, and Hallex one hi.ndiT ? 
thirty four ; Mr. HunsoN in the laft edition of his Flora Anglka enumerates fix, an^HrL:" o^ 
rately defcribes twenty m his F&ru &«/,«; and yet amidll aU thefe enumerations and deferiptions fcarcra,™ 
two of them are agreed about the fame Fungus ; of the hundred and fourteen deferibed byScopoLi there 3 
only eleven which have the names of Linnasus, the frocerm of Scopoli is the amulatm of LictiTPoortb, 
hoihThehs of Hudson, while the rnma». and pratenfi of Scopoli dilfer from 
Amidft this confu^n of Authors, atlfing partly from the intricacy of the fubjeft, and partly from their inatten- 
«0.1 to fpecific charafters, we lhall be often obliged to be rpating in our lynonyms, and occafionally find it Tecef 
fary to introduce a new name as lu the prefeat iiiftance. ^ necei- 
^ Although the Fungus here figured is a very common one, we are not able with abfolute certaintv to fav that 
It IS either in Ray, Linnsus, Scopoli, Ligi-itfoot. or Hudson, the name of glutinofm is therefore given it as 
rt always is more or lefs llimy and which ll.minefs is not confined to the upper part of the cap, but extends 
theftalk: this chataaer joined to the romidnefs of the cap, and the hotixontal appearance of the gills vvh ch 
form a ftraight line from the edge of the Cap to the ftalk, will always readily diftiiiguilh this MufhroSm. 
The Cap vanes in fixe from two lines to two inches in diameter, and the ftem from one to four or five in 
height, the ulual colour of the cap is of a pale ftraw colour, fometimes inclined more to the yellow and foml 
diy^n'gTp h£ othen «ot quickly dlflblvingas fome do, noi 
in! hem Uimw7°“’^ "P “ dufters, efpecially on thofe fpots where dung 
_ Its place of growth is in rapofed, and elevated paftures, efpecially fuch as are moift, it may indeed be found 
in moft meadows, and fometimes m great abundance, the particular places where I have been Lcuftomed to find 
It plentifully, are on Fk&iw-Fk and m the paftures about the Oak of Honour Wood, alfo in the pafture one 
afceiids, before entering Hantfiy-Wood, going from IJl'mgion. panure one 
About the latter end of Oflober they are moft plentiful, but may be found earlier as well as later. 
thc™™-s‘lrSroomr“°“ “ in the tafte of it, yet its appearance will not recommend it to 
