Coloured figures of English fungi or mushrooms/Volume 1/Tab. 8

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TAB. VIII.


AGARICUS LIMACINUS.

A. LIMACINUS Schæff. t. 312?

Found very abundantly in an airy hilly aspect among firs in Sir William Jerningham's plantations at Coffey near Norwich, Oct. 1794. It agrees with Schæffer's limacinus in the yellowness of the gills, but the pileus is much brighter than he represents it; his figure exactly accords with the plant in a drying state, and with some specimens less perfect that those here delineated. Our largest figure nearly agrees with Dr. Withering's description of A. cæfarius, but does not accord with any of the plates quoted for that species. Our limacinus is enveloped in a veil of gluten when young. The stalk is somewhat pithy.