Agaricus velutipes. Velvet-s talk’d Mushr o o m, 
AGARICUS Lin. Gen* Pi. CryptogAmia Fungi. 
Fungus horizontalis, fubtus Iamellofus. 
Ran Syn. Gen. i. Fungi. 
AGARICUS velutipes fafciculofus-, pileo planiufculo fulvo, flipite ttudo, tenerrime villofo, fuligino/b. 
FUNGUS glutinofus colore aurantio. Vaillant Bet. Paris, p. 72. 8. t. 12. Jig. 8, 9. 
FUNGUS fafciculofus, pileo orbiculari lutefeente, pediculo fufeo, tenerrime villofo, lamellis 'ex flavo 
candicantibus. Rail Syn . e d. 3. p. 9. 
Ex ligno putrefeente, feu arboribus ctefis, coacervatim 
plerumque nafeitur hic fungus. 
VOLVA ad radicem nulla. 
STIPES in planta mediae magnitudinis longitudine in-;; 
dicem, craflitie pennam anferinam tequat, teres, • : 
haud infrequenter compreffus, fiftulofus, te-;| 
nerrime villofus, feu velutinus, inferne prae- - 
fertim in vetuftis e rufo-nigricans, fuligine'' 
quafi infedus, carnea citrina, in tenuiflima fila;’ 
fericea partibili. • ■ 
ANNULUS nullus. ■; 
PILEUS uncialis ad triuncialem, modice convexus,:: 
fiepe ditformis, fulvus, glutinofus; Lamella: ;' 
plurima 1 , inequales, ex albido-luteicentes, in f 
majoribus et lenefcentibus fungis craflie, coria- £ 
ce<e, lutete, ad marginem pilei undulatas, lon- | 
gioribus ball auriculatis, omnibus venofis ; $ 
Pollen cinereum. I 
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This Fungus ufually grows in cluflers, out of decayed 
wood or felled trees. 
SHEATH or egg at the root wanting. 
STALK in plants of a middle fize about the length of 
the forefinger, and thicknefs of a goofe-quill, 
round, not unfrequently flat, hollow, velvety, 
on the lower part, efpecially in the old ones, 
of a reddi (h black colour, as if tinged with 
foot, the flefti citron coloured, and feparable 
into filk-like threads. 
RING, or ruffle, wanting. 
CAP from one to three inches in diameter, moderately 
convex, often fhapelefs, of an orange or tawny 
colour, {limy ; Gills numerous, unequal, of 
a whitifh yellow colour, in the larger and 
older fungi thick, leathery, yellow, ° waved 
towards the edge of the cap, the longer ones 
ear d at the bale, and all of them veiny ; 
Pollen, or feed, afh-coloured. 
Many of the fungi, like the more perfeft plants, make their appearance only at a certain period of the year * 
others are continually fpringing up and producing their frudtifications, almoft "regardlefs of particular feafons of 
the latter kind is the fungus here figured, at leaf! it may be found from September to January in the greateft plenty. 
Tt ufually grows out of dead, or decaying wood, efpecially willow and elm, and almoft always in cluflers of 
different lizes, according to particular filiations ; at the bottoms of old willow-trees I have often feen fifty or more 
in a clufter, with the caps of lome of the largeff almoft as broad as the palm of one’s hand, while on fmall rotten 
flicks the clufter has confided of not more than three or four, with caps not more than half an inch in diameter 
but however it may vary in regard to fize, &c. it luckily has a charafter which always readily diftinguifties it and’ 
this is its velvety and footy ftalk, moft confpicuous in thofe which are advanced. 
Ray’s fynonym and defeription correfpond pretty accurately with our fungus; Mr. Hudson appears to have 
overlooked or confounded it with fome other fpecies; Vaillant has given a good figure, and accurate defeription 
of it, in his moft elegant work the Botanicon Parifienfe. v 
To the tafte this mufliroom is rather agreeable, and devoid of all acrimony, perhaps it may be eaten with 
fafety, it is not however of the kind recommended by Horace, 
- — pratenjibus optima fungis 
Natura ejl ; aliis male creditur. 
