An History of Fungusses, growing about Halifax (Vols 1-2)

Shows the curtain lacerated, or torn into fragments, with part remaining upon the stem and part on the rim or margin of the pileus: examples of which we have in the Agaricus pompatus, villosus, castaneus, &c.

Represents the curtain separating from the pileus all around its margin without being torn, as in the Agaricus muscarius, verrucosus, &c.

Shows the gills, fig. 4, branched, or divided and subdivided, the shorter being united at their base into the longer: as in the Agaricus chanterellus, infundibuliformis, &c.

Shows the gills arranged in three series of unequal length; the first series extends from the top of the stem to the rim of the pileus; the second series extends but two-thirds of the way; and the third series extends but one-third of the way from the rim towards the center. This arrangement of the gills is the most common. It is, however, subject to irregularity; the same series sometimes varies in length in respect to one another; sometimes the alternate order of their disposition is not regular; and the second and third series are sometimes deficient in their number.

Shows the gills arranged in two series, as in the Agaricus muscarius and Agaricus politus; but of this arrangement, we have but few examples in the English Agarics.