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Agaricus cerussatus Fr. Opinions Dow. t. 162.
on old tree, covering becale 20 April 1839. Dundee.
Pileus hemispherical at length broadly campanulate, white, over
1 inch in breadth, umbonate, convex, the edges inequaleaf turned and
flat: margin inflexed: flesh white.
Gills 4 in a lot, snowwhite as well on the minute [illegible], forma
elliptical
Stem more than 1 inch in height. White externally and internally,
Nearly if not altogether solid, livid at the base
Odour Scarcely any.
Only 2 specimens were found on 20 April 1839.
2 More were found — on the 23 old. No these were larger
and the Pileus alone was of a pale slate-blue colour. From the root
of the stem it was excavated and filled with an air-vessel as represented
in a plate, but much magnified