Agaricus floccosus 
Shaggy Mushroom, 
AGARICUS Lin. Gen. PI. Fungi-. 
Fungus horizontalis, fubtus lamellofus. 
Rati Syn. Gen. i. Fungi. 
AGARICUS fioccojus ftipitatus fafciculofus, pileo ftipiteque pilofo-fquamofis, e flavo-fufcis. 
PICROMYCES tunicatus. Batarr. p. 47. t. 8. H. 
AGARICUS floccofus. Schaffer. Icon. Fung. t. 61. 
Habitat ad radices arborum, plerumque cefpitofus. 
STIPES palmaris et ultra, craffitie digiti minimi feu 
major, fubcylindraceus, firmus, carnofus, vix 
fiftulofus, interne albus, fupra annulum nudus, 
infra filamentofus, pileo concolor. 
ANNULUS parvus, paulo infra pileum politus. 
VELUM araneolum, fugaciffimum. 
PILEUS : Pilei diameter fefquiuncialis ad palmarem. 
flavo-fufcus, convexus, in centro nonnunquam 
faftigiatus, pilofo-fquamofus. Lamella plu- 
rimae, conferta, inaequales, ex albo lutefcentes. 
t Found at the roots of trees, and generally in clutters. 
I STALK four inches or more in height, the thicknefs of 
% the little finger or larger, foinewhat cylindri- 
cal, firm, flelhy, fcarcely hollow, white within, 
¥ above the ring naked, below lhaggy, of the 
I fame colour as the cap. 
I RING fmall, placed a little beneath the cap. 
¥ VEIL cob-webby and very fugacious. 
I CAP: from an inch and a half to four inches in dia- 
t meter, of a yellow-brown colour, convex, 
I fometimes riling to a point in the middle, 
¥ lhaggy. Gills numerous, clofe, irregular, of 
^ a yellowifh-white colour. 
It doth not appear, that this Mulhroom is defcribed either by Mr. Ray or Mr. Hudson. It approaches very near 
to the Jquamojus of the latter, and of which Baron Haller feems difpofed to confider it as a variety ; to us it 
appears to be a fpecies perfectly diftinft. 
Batarra gives an indifferent figure of it ; Schajffer an exceeding good one, very expreflive of the plant we 
intend : the fpecimens from whence his drawings were made leem to have been fmaller than ours, and fome of 
them more pointed, which they fometimes are. Thofe reprefented on our plate were found about the middle of 
OSlober , growing at the bottom of a pear-tree in the garden of Mr. John C/jor/ey, at South Lambeth , where 
they come up regularly every year. I have alfo frequently found this fpecies in the Oak of Honour W tod near 
Peckham. So far as I have remarked, it always grows out of wood, in which refpedt it differs from the 
Jimetarius , which alfo has a ragged head, but grows out of earth, and has a much longer cap. 
When young this Fungus is principally diftinguilhed by the roughnefs of its cap, which appears almott prickly. 
Its colour varies from a dingy to a more lively brown. 
It is not of the eatable kind ; nor do we know any inftance of it proving poifonous : the maggots of flies 
devour it. 
