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Agaricus
growing on leaves of Pinus sylvestris and a small thicket,
Plantations, Dumbarton 25 Sept. 1839.
Minute, scattered or single. Stipe, hemispherical, broadly
funnelled, white, margin involute. Gills few, white, adnate;
Spores pale. Stipe darker, dark brown, whitish at base.
Pleurocystidia 10 to 20 thick broad or high, more white, having 4 to 5
projecting like corresponding to the number and direction of
the gills. Gills white, broad, 4 to 5 with sometimes a small
intermedial one.
Stipe sometimes more than 1 inch high; very slender, blackish near
base, white at base.
Odour not perceptible