Agaricus plicatilis. 
PLAITED Mushroom. 
AGARICUS tin. Gen, PI Cryptogamia Fungi. 
Fungus horizontalis, fubtus lamellofus. 
'kail. 'Syn. Gen. 'i. Fungi. 
A'GARICUS fkatilh fUpitatus, pileo campanukto feu piano, murmo, pellucido, plicato. 
AGARICUS crenulatus membranaceus coerulefcens fulcatus, centro papillan, flipite exili. Muller. FI. 
Dan. t. 832. yi 2. 
FUNGUS perpuEllus, pediculo oblongo, pileolo tenui, utrinque llriato, feu flabelli in modum plicat.li. 
An. 
Rail. Syn. p. 8. n, «4? 
Batarr. Fung. Hab. C. 
STIPES folltarius, in adultis bluncialls et ultra, mag- | 
nitudine culmi triticei minoris, eredlus, teres, | 
filiformis, fiftuiofus, laevis, albus, tener. | 
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PILEUS cum primo erumpit nucleum nucis avellana; | 
magnitudine squat, e flavo-fufcus, vix ma- ^ 
nifefte ftriatus, cito oblongo campanulatus | 
evadit, flrice fubundulatae magis luculenter | 
apparent, color in murinum incipit tranfire, ■ : 
nunc adultus, forma in campauulatam muta- , 
tur, mox evafura plana, uncialis feu fefqui- : : 
uncialis, murinus, vertice plano, fufeo feu ; ; 
albido, tenellus, plicatus; cutis diaphanus, 
fine carne, fuperne farina mtlla adfperfus, ; , 
faftigiis plicarum fubvillofis, peradla floref- ■ 
centia margo invertitur et nigrefeit. 
LAMELLA pau ese, concolores, pulverem fubtiliffimum ' ; 
e caeruleo-nigricantem effundentes. 
STALKS fingle, in thofe which are full grown two 
• inches or more in height, the fize of a fmall 
wheat flraw, upright, round, of the fame 
thickiiefs throughout, hollow, fmooth, white, 
and tender. 
CAP when it firft fprings up is about the fize of the 
kernel of a bazle nut, of a yellowifh brown 
colour, fcarce preceptibly flriated, it foon 
becomes of an oblong bell-fh'ape, 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-fhaped, 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 whitifh ; the fkin 
tranfparent, without any flefh, at top not 
fpriukled with meal, the ridges of the plaits 
fomewhat villous, when the frufUfication 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 Mufliroom here figured ‘m ks feveral ftates is one of thofe, whofe caps in decaying diflblve into a black 
liquid thefe in general ate of fliort duration, and this being of fo thin and delicate a lubftance is particularly fo. 
On the twelfth of September ten ofitwelve 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 Plati, in all of which it is not unfrequent in th. 
Months of September and Odober. 
The Cap is fo remarkably plaited, or fan-like, that we could not but prefer a name exprefliVe of fo charafte- 
rllHc a circumftance to Mullers term cremllalus, the Agaricus Umllus of Mr. Hudson approaches fo near to ours 
from his defeription, thatwefhould have coiifidered it as the lame, had not Pluxenets figure quoted by him been 
very different. 
