. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. Fig. 104.—agaricus velutinus. (y, on key,) when cut or broken, but (like all pink-sporedAgarics, of which this is one), it is probably adangerous fungus. Agaricus velutinus (fig. 104), Yon diagram, oftenpuzzles beginners and not unfrequently finds aplace in the Mushroom gatherers basket. Itsqualities are imperfectly known, but like thenext and last it has disagreeable and poisonousrelations as neighbours, and therefore it may belooked upon vnth well-merited suspicion. Likethe last, A. velutinus usual
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. Fig. 104.—agaricus velutinus. (y, on key,) when cut or broken, but (like all pink-sporedAgarics, of which this is one), it is probably adangerous fungus. Agaricus velutinus (fig. 104), Yon diagram, oftenpuzzles beginners and not unfrequently finds aplace in the Mushroom gatherers basket. Itsqualities are imperfectly known, but like thenext and last it has disagreeable and poisonousrelations as neighbours, and therefore it may belooked upon vnth well-merited suspicion. Likethe last, A. velutinus usually grows on andabout stumps in woody places, and in garden. Fig. J05.—agaricus lacrymadundus. (z, on key.) beds. It considerably resembles a slenderMushroom, though all its parts are moreattenuated and brittle. It is far less fleshy (l)than a Mushroom, and it has a decidedlyhollow or piped stem ; it is furnished with ahanging margin or fringe round the edge of itsdry cap, M, but the stem has no central collar,N. The fiesh is stringy, and changes colour toyellowish brown when cut or broken ; and thegills which are brown, purplish brown, or black,are commonly studded with drops of moisture. The fungi represented at the bottom of thecoloured plate, z, z on outline key, belong toAgaricus lacrymabundus (fig. 105). I have fre-quently known this fungus to be gathered for thetrue Mushroom, and it often (like the last) finds a Th October 27th, 1877.
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