Drawings of fungi
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Agaricus among staves and rubbish; shamb, Dunkerden 16 June 1835. Plates a semi-ablate spheroid, a depressed hemisphore (without worts or umbilicus) cream coloured, smooth, slightly fissured. Gills broad, 4 in a row, adnexed, very pale watery-white, alternated above. Stem: smooth, gill-like lentic, cream coloured below, white at the base; with the remains of a ring brown on the upper surface; bulbous, and fibril : filatate. Plates about 1 inch in diameter, flesh moderate, thick, fleshy but not slimy. cream coloured a pink yellowish-white yellower in the center. Gills rather broad, their inferior surfaces are veins in a horizontal direction near the stem, but turning off towards the margin of the plate; very pale brown. Stem 3 inches high, thicker below; somewhat waved, curving in a bulb composed of series of white silky filaments, antrating below but containing in it cavity a rounded whitish lump; internally are white branched fibrils. Odour as of A. Campestris. Things had devoured the pilei of 3 individuals, present in the centre of the fanon.