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Agaricus mamosus. Hist. 69.
Nipple Agaric.

Agaricus rostratus

This Agarick is of a dry and
spongy substance retains its conical figure
to the last the coat of the Pileus looks
and feels like cloth not made of the best
wool. The gills are very deep or broad &
arranged in three series, the whole, in
decay melts in a brown foetid jelly.

The specimen here figured I gathered in
Bracken-bed Wood Septr [September] ye 1st, 1787.
        