Illustrations and Descriptions of Lesser Known Fungi

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pillus Black-cap. Eiusd. l. c. of the same author, in the same work 2. p. 77. Fig. 76. Ag. cervinus SCHAEFF. FUNG. BAV. Tab. X. (not infrequently found on trunks.)

Agaricus salicinus Willow Agaric: with a subfleshy, greenish-blue (beryl) pileus; free pink lamellae; and a solid, fibrillose, whitish-blue stipe. (Until now I have seen this beautiful species here and there on willow trees in the autumn.)

Tab. 2, Fig. 5 represents Agaricus umbrosus in its natural habit, and Fig. 6 dissected in half.

I. with a very branched, erect, citron-yellow trunk: more rarely with very thin, hairy, whitish threads.
Commentary on Clavate Fungi, p. 102.

It occurs very rarely on rotting trunks in the autumn in beech forests.

I have already communicated my observation regarding this species, which I was not able to repeat further, in the cited Commentary.

In the third Table, Fig. 1, it is depicted at natural size, but in Fig. 2 it is magnified by a lens.

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