Drawings of fungi
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Agaricus partium, Dumfries : 3 Nov. 1837 subaggregate. Pileus conical, at length umbrella-shaped, light red - brown, at length pale and brownish, glutinous. Gills adnate, ventricose, yellowish a marigold colour. Lamellae Hymenium pale yellowish near base. Stipe nearly stuffed yellowish - near base, at length scarlet. Pileus sometimes over 2 inches in diameter, at first hemispherical and bright red coloured, at length brownish reddish-brown, lower - deck rising, when full pear conical and subumbonate. Gills becoming brown and aridulata at the edges, and much waved at the margin. Stipe being 2 inches high, at length longitudinally sulcated, and with filamentous scales. Odour Scarcely any. Taste reddish-brown, rather considerable