G R O W I N G ABOUT HALIFAX. 3
AGARICUS, Jlipitatus, fileo cameo laSiefcente, ' lamellis rufis, m.
• 'JUpte longo: corneo, Sp: PI: 164.1, Hudfon ' Angl: 614.' lactifi™.
F/M Scot: 10.12. Schcef: Fung: tab: 73. Buliiard, PI:
282..
M I L K Y AGARIC.
HE root is ¿welled, hard, round, of a brown colour, and
. emits bro'wniili ihort fibres from its fides; it produces one
plant only, and is not furrounded by a volva.
The ftem is; round, hard, and firm, generally leaning, or
curved; it is the thieknefs of one's little finger, and three
inches high , the fubftance is white wijthin, and the colour on
the outfide a pale reddiih brown.—There is no curtain.
. The gills in three ferics, narrow, arched, and adhering t 0 the
ftem by a narrow claw; they are numerous, and of a brittle
fubftance-. While young they are white, ' afterwards changing
to a pale broWniih buff colour; when wounded or broken a
white milky fluid, of a mild tafte, iffues out in round drops.
The pileus at firft convex, afterwards becomes horizontal,
and at laft funnel (lraped; but in all its ftages, from firft to laft,
the margin is deflected. The furface is. dry, fmooth, and feels
like cloth ; of a dark cinnamon brown colour, and from two
to four inches diameter. The fubftance of the fleih dry and
brittle.
Grows in woods about Halifax abundantly, from Auguft
to November.
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