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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.