TAB. LXXI.
AGARICUS nitens. Schæff. tab. 238.
Lady Arden seems the first discoverer of this plant in England. Her Ladyship gathered them in Nork-Park, and favoured me with fresh specimens in October and November last. If Dr. Withering had seen this plant, he would have esteemed Schæffer's tab. above quoted one of his bell figures, not a bad figure of A. eburneus. When fresh this fungus is beautifully white, the pileus glutinous and shining: it is bespangled with dew-drops on the upper part of the solid but pithy stipes: when advanced it becomes cupped, and in decaying or when bruised acquires patches of a bright flame-coloured or scorched appearance, finally turning to a reddish or foxy brown; it has a faint pleasant odour.
TAB. LXXII.
AGARICUS Roseus. Bull. t. 162. 507. With. v. 3. 364.
These are abundant in most woods all the autumn, either of a pale purple or rose colour, in odour and tarte like cabbage: the purple are the most common, and generally smallest. May not this be purpurascens of Withering, and Janthinus of Batsch?
