Agaricus carnosus. Fleshy Mushroom 
AGARICUS carnofas pileo convexo albo, medio rufefcehte, lamellis confertis albis carne pile; duplo 
anguftioribus. 
In fylvis acerofis habitat nobifeum rarior, autumno 
vigens. 
| Found with us in pine woods in the autumn, feared. 
Solitarius plerumque invenitur, fubinde cefpitofus. | Is generally found growing (ingly, fotnetimes in clutters. 
STIPES triuncialis et ultra, magnitudine fere digiti 
minimi, crafl'us, nudus, fiftulol'us, carne dia- 
metro tubi, firmus, albidus, fiepe rubro macu- 
latus, parum ftriatus, bafi intra folia pini 
emortua defeendente. 
PILEUS dncialis, ad triuncialem, albidus, medio ru- 
befcens, et hinc inde maculis concoloribus 
adfperfus, lasvis, carnofus, carne multo, folido, 
albo, primo convexus, dein planiulculus, nec 
acris, nec laftelcens. 
LAMELLaE numeroliftimaj, albidx, anguftae, fefqui- 
lineam latas, brevioribus interje&is, demum 
riifefcentes. 
| STALK three inches high and upwards, almoft the 
| thicknefs of the little finger, clumfy, naked, 
^ hollow, the flefh the diameter of the tube, 
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| CAP from one to three inches in diameter, reddifh in 
| the middle, and here and there blotched with 
fpots of the fame colour, fmooth, flefhy, the 
t flefh abundant, fblid, white, firft convex, 
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| GILLS exceedingly numerous, whitifh, narrow, aline 
$ and a half broad, fhorter ones intervening, 
i finally of a reddifh brown colour. 
firm, whitifh, often fpotted with red, faintly 
ftriated, the bafe defending amongft the dead 
pine leaves. 
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finally almoft flat, neither acrid nor milky. 
We can find no certain traces of this fungus either in the figures or deferiptions of authors ; at leaft in thofe of 
our own country. This may perhaps arile, from its being a local, or at leaft not a common mufhroom. 
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 afluming the fame character for feveral fucceftive years, we are 
perfectly fatisfied of its being a very diftinft fpecies. This autumn. Sept. 22, we found about twenty of them. 
It is in fome degree chara&erifed by the Angularity of its colour. We have few fungi that have a white Pileus, 
with a reddilh difk, and that, together with the ftalk, irregularly blotched with tire fame colour ; but it is more 
diftinguifhed 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 difeovers no unpleafant tafte; but notwithftanding this circumftance, and notwithftanding its 
tempting appearance,, we muft, till we have further proofs of its innocence., place it at leaft among the fufpicious 
