
          (28.)

Agaricus flabellatus Hist. 72. f. 2

White Fan Agaric.

Tab: 28.

This singular, Beautifull [Beautiful]
and new Agaric I gathered in the thick
moist shade below Pitcher pit, in the
Bottom of the wood near the Brook,
It was of a Dead white colour [color], thin light
and semipellucid, of the figure of an escollop [scallop]
shell, fixed by the Hinge or Claw to some
blades of withered Grass, which hung down
from the side of an old rotten willow Root.
The gills are about fifteen in number.
continued from the verge to the Claw, I
found it in November 1778, never saw
it before or since. The Drawing is
reversed & inverted by the Bookbinder.

Agaricus pecten
        