TAB. CXXI.
AGARICUS Cossus.
The highest parts of Peckham Wood, Surrey, produce this species annually about October, where I have always found it in great plenty since the year 1792. It is also to be found in other woods. The pileusis covered with a gluten, which constantly gives a strong goat-like odour, exactly resembling the wounded larva of Phœl. Coirus. When this gluten is dried by the wind, the scent still remains on the hand that has touched it, for many hours. In colour and shape this Agaric varies but little from the figure here given.
TAB. CXXII.
AGARICUS Albellus. Schæf tab. 78,
This is not a common plant, nor have I found it more than twice. It surely is the same species as quoted above, varying a little in the proportion, &c. It is very fleshy and solid from the pileus to the root; the gillsare very narrow. I have found it greyish, but the present specimcn was nearly white where it was not bruised; the bruises were reddish.
TAB. CXXIII.
AGARICUS delbatus.
This little elegant species is often found under a canopy of firs, some with partly conical, and some with undulating or waving tops, in different proportions, dancing, as it were, in rings and mazes arrayed in virgin white.
