Drawings of fungi
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Agricola, laccatae lepis. memo. In the white Penetration, from the Road, Dunckirch 14 Sept. 1887 23/5 lyptus; rather flattened. A. Pileus flattish at length split at the margin and received, Scale 4; very pale tawny, smooth, with very minute radiating split, Margin irregular. Gills thick of a reddish cinnamon, broad, advanced. Stem cinnamon-brown, somewhat twisted, longitudinally stirted, rootlets pale sterile, branched. Pileus 1-2 inches wide, at length split into received variously- lined streaks, involucreous with its gills when moist, but of a whitish tawny color when dry, at first hemispherical, and subumbilicate. Gills very thick from the commencement, at length broken by the reconvolution of the margin of the pileus. Stalk-coloured a reddish cinnamon, network with a whitish fibrilla, which are the sporules and these are stained, translu- cent and more colourless. Stem 2-8 inches high, tortuous, usually twisted, involucreous, subericeous, having a white stem at the base, also distinct, branched, rather thick rootlets. Stem as of a lost pileus; yet large specimen when moist with little. There is considerable; the stem spreading into the pileus, on attached by various wiry, of a minute spider web-like between the gills.