Flora Edinensis: or, a description of plants growing near Edinburgh, arranged according to the Linnean system, with a concise introduction to the natural orders of the Class Cryptogamia, and illustrative plates / By Robert Kaye Greville.

Robert Kaye Greville

Date:: 1824

Credit: Flora Edinensis: or, a description of plants growing near Edinburgh, arranged according to the Linnean system, with a concise introduction to the natural orders of the Class Cryptogamia, and illustrative plates / By Robert Kaye Greville. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$lines broail, nujoso-plicate. Lamella; verv tew, remote, white, adnate. Stipes 4-1 inch long, very slender, hollow, white at the to]), dark below, almost smooth to the naked eye. 39. Ag. fuetidus, pileus convex, umbilicated, plicate, reddish- brown ; lamellae adnate, pale yellowish ; stipes hollow, reddish- brown, velvety. Fries, Syst. My col. v. 1. p. 158. dIc minis Jwtidus, Sou\ Fung. t. £1. Hah. On dead branches of trees in woods. Autumn. I'oxhall, Captain Wauch. Vlant gregarious. Pileus convex, rarely quite ])lane, plicate, reddish-brown, of an inch broad, thin, glabrous. Lamella; adnate, narrow, yellowish, distant. Stijtes about an inch long, thin, dark brown, minutely velvety or hairy Smell disagreeable. Sect. 8. (Mycena, Pits.) Stipes with a fine hollow, slender, subcarti/aginous, separating from the pileus, villose at the base, and mostly radicating, never bulbous. Pileus membranaceous, conical, at length camyunu/ate, rarely more expanded, substriate, smooth, more or less transparent. Lamella; unequal, ascending, and attenuated towards the stijtes. S/x/rules white. Colour various—Rather small fungi, of little substance, slender, not evanescent, generally gregarious or tufted, often with a strong smell. None are edible. * Pileus more or less brown. Stipes smooth. 40. Ag. alliaceus, stinking; pileus becoming nearly plane, Hubcoriaceous; lamellae free, whitish; stipes tall, covered with a sort of bloom, dark purplish, brown below, velvety at the base. Sozv. Fung. t. 81. Pcrs. Syn. Fung. p. 375. (in part). Fries, Syst. Mycol. v. 1. p. 140. IIool'. FI. Scot. 2. p. 23. Ag. por- reus, Pers. Syn. Fung. p. 370. (excluding Syn. Bull.) Pcrs. Syst. Mycol. v. 1. p. 128. (in part.) Hab. In woods among dead leaves, in autumn, ltare. I'oxhall, Cap- tain Wauch. Pileus campanulate, at length nearly plane, remotely striate, 4-1 inch broad, yellowish-brown, dry, thin, but not tender. Lumelhe subdistant, whitish, free or nearly so. Stijtes 3-4 inches long, 2 lines thick, hollow, shining, dark rich brown or blackish, pale at the top, velvety towards the base, sometimes only at the base, dry—Plant generally smelling of garlic, but not constant in this respect. Much confusion exists between Ag. Alliaceus and porreus of authors, which Fries, in his late work, has rather increased than removed ; as is evident under Ag. jxrrreus, where he quotes Bulliard and Sowerby, whose figures are very different. In the former the stem is solid, very hairy, and much attenuated upwards; the lamellae are numerous, and the whole habit different from the figures of the latter, the stems of which are hol- low, comparatively smooth, nearly equal, and the lamellae distant. 41. Ag. galericulatus, scentless, pileus brownish ; lamellae whitish, adnate, with a decurrent process ; stipes smooth, tena- cious, strigose at the base, and radicating. Sow. Fung. t. 165. Pcrs. Syn. Fung. p. 376. Fries, Syst. Mycol. v. 1. p. 143. Hab. By the sides of rotten stumps of trees, and among grass and mossi extremely common. Autumn.$