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Pikus light brown, slightly convex, centre rather darker, and depressed, 
scored from the gills appearing through, tearing at the edge, full quarter 
of an inch diameter. 
Stem solid, light brown, stiff, half to three-quarters of an inch high, not 
thicker than a pin. 
(Depressed Brown Merulius. E.) In clusters, in the Earl of Aylesford’s 
Park, Packington, Warwickshire. Autumn. 
M. cantharei/lus. Stem solid, often compressed: gills decurrent, 
branched, anastomosing. 
(Sowerby 46. IS,.)—Bull. 62 — Bolt. 62 — (Part. Ap. t. x. E.)— Batsch. 1 20 
— Schaff. 82. 206— J. B. iii. 832— FI. Dan. 264— Vaill. xi. 9. 10. 11. 
14. 15 —■Battar. 14. A. B . C - Batsch. 37— Ger. 1384. 2— Trag. 940— 
Clus. ii. 270. 2, the bottom of the page. 
Gills decurrent, fleshy, branched, anastomosing. Substance the same as 
that of the stem and the pile us; very different from the gills of Agarics. 
In the microscope they appear covered with very minute granulated par¬ 
ticles. 
Pikus concave, curled at the edge, often very irregular, one to three inches 
over. Flesh spongy, whitish. 
Stem solid, tapering downwards, often compressed, and then rarely central; 
one to two inches high, quarter to three-quarters of an inch in diameter. 
Whole plant yellow as the yolk of an egg. It does not soon rot and 
decay as the Agarics do, nor is it much liable to the attacks of insects. 
It is very apt to be sportive and monstrous in its growth, as may be seen 
in the following figures, Batsch. 34. fan-shaped, Vaill. 12. 13, very much 
curled, &c. 
Pikus turban-shaped, flattish, edge mostly bent in. Gills deep yellow, 
short, naked. Linn. Colour mostly pale yellow, sometimes deep yellow, 
and even saffron-coloured. Ray Syn. 2. n. 5. It is remarkable that this 
plant, which almost universally takes the lead in the genus Agaricus, most 
certainly does not belong to that genus; having no regular gills, but 
only projecting veins variously branched and anastomosing, but of the 
same substance as the pileus; they much resemble the veins of the Peziza 
cornucopioides and P. acetabulum. The mode in which this plant dis¬ 
charges its seed does not appear to be known. It seems to approach 
nearer to an Helvetia than to an Agaric. Perhaps this plant, the Ag. 
infundibuliformis of Bolton, (which seems to be Ag. cornucopioides of Bul- 
liard,). Ag. Candidas of Hudson, and the two Pezizae above mentioned, 
ought to form a new genus. Mr. Woodward. Pikus hollow, undulated 
and fringed at the edge; stem short, solid ; gills thick, branching. It is 
remarkable in every respect; its bright yellow colour, venose gills, and 
particularly for its grateful smell, like ripe apricots, which it preserves in 
decay. Mr. Stackhouse. The reticulation of the gills not represented in 
Schaeff. 82. and 206, to which plates our authors refer. Major Velley. 
Let me observe here once for all, that the plates of Schaeffer seldom give 
an accurate representation of the gills. 
(Yellow Agaric. Chantarelk. Scotch. Paddock-stool. E.) Ag. cantha- 
rellus. Linn. Ray Syn. p. 2. n. 5. Schaeff. Bull. Bolt. FI. Dan. Ag. alec - 
torolOphoides. Schaeff. Ag. luteolus. Batsch. 
Earsham Wood, Suffolk. Mr. Woodward. Woolhope Woods, and Caplar 
Hill, Herefordshire. Mr. Stackhouse. Single or in clusters: Red Rock 
plantation, and on the south-west side of the large pool, Edgbaston, in 
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