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Agaricus cornucopioides Hist. 8.
Cornuacopia [Cornucopia] Agaric

This is of all others the most remarkable
Agarick that I ever met with. The Root
is tough irregular twisted and black an inch
or two from the bottom divides in several flat
twisted compressed furrowd [furrowed] stems of a black
brown colour and a tough elastic leathery
substance. Upwards it enlarges and becomes
more visibly corded or nerved which cords or
nerves are a continuation of the decurrent
gills. The gills in three series of a pale
buff colour and tough substance.

Pileus lobed and waved in a wild but
very elegant manner of a dusky brown
cinnamon colour, tough and almost destitute
of flesh.

It grew in Bracken-bed Wood Sepr [September] ye third,
1787. The dried specimen is in the hands of the Rev'd
Mr. Lightfoot at Uxbridge.
        