Coloured figures of English fungi or mushrooms/Volume 1/Tab. 14

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TAB. XIV.


AGARICUS CLYPEOLARIUS With. v. 3. 379.


This occurs frequently in woods and fir plantations in damp weather. It certainly includes the A. meleagris of Withering. The ring is occasionally wanting, nor can I call it permanent.

Many Agarics have, like this, a loose pith, but so tender it often slides along with the blade of the instrument used to divide the stalk.