TAB. CXLIV.
AGARICUS aromaticus.
AGARICUS clutinosus. Bull. t. 258. & 539.
First sent me by Mr. B. M. Forster. Found at Walthamstow. The agreeable spicy odour suggested its name. It appears to be A. glutinosus of Bulliard, though his gills are colourless; a name applicable to many of the fungi, (and would do for this were it not previously engaged,) as it is sometimes altogether a gluten, or jelly. The pileus has generally a thick glutinous skin of a cinnamon colour: the gills are somewhat pinky; they appear to be decurrent in the young state, but when advanced they separate, so as to appear naturally loose or separate from the stipes, which is somewhat hollow and pithy. The whole plant when fresh is often so tender, I have not been able to gather it whole; in bruising it becomes blackish. As the plant dries, the skin corrugates, and often becomes very prettily reticulated; (may not this be A. reticulatus of Dr. Withering, ed. 3. 289 .0 The taste is watery, with a peppermint-like coolness in the mouth, and a lasting roughness in the throat.
TAB. CXLV.
LYCOPERDON radiatum.
This remarkably curious and new species, perhaps a new genus, (which, however, seems to belong to the Lycoperdon phalloides of Philofophical Transactions, v. 74. 473. t. 16. and Spicilegium botanicum, t. 12.) was sent me from Holt in Norfolk by the Rev. R. B. Francis, who found it on a plastered wall of a ballroom. The rays appear to be the root by which it is attached to the wall, and are composed of an infinite number of fine woolly filaments nearly white. The little ball in the centre is nearly solid, and finely tomentose on the outside. Under a magnifier we can discover a fine dull or feed, closely resembling that of the Lycoperdon phalloides, but much less copious.
