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AGARICUS ' Jlipit at us, pileo hemifphcerico purpurea livido,
dinliculaitts.
lamellis margine dentatus, Jiipite JiJluloJo.
TOOTHED GILL'D AGARIC.
T A B. IV.
IE root is hard and oblique/.pf a brown colour, and
covered with dawny fibres; it is not furrounded by a
volva.- -
The ftem is the thicknefs of.a goofe-quill, hollow, the
fubftance thin, pliable, and tough, eaiiJy fplitting in thin filky
filaments; the colour a very pale browniih hue, height two or
three inches - it has ntfvcurtain. ' ^ ' "
The gills in three feries, deep, and, adhering to the ftem by
their bafe ; they are remote,-thin, pellucid, of a pale, livid,
watery, purple colour, and are remarkable in being dented along
the edges, with vifible ruft coloured dents, as is exprejjed at A.
Thefe dents, according to the ingenious Hedwig^ are the
male parts of frudtification. See his Theoria Cryptogamicarum,
P. 162. tab. 34, Jig. 196, 197.
The pileus hemifpherical, two inches diameter, a little
defle&ed, and ftriated at the rim; of a.dull livid purple, almoft
deftitute of fleih, and of a watery fubftance ; it diifolves
in decay.
Grows in woods near Halifax, but not plentifully. The
fpecimen here defcribed, grew in Stump-Wood, in Nortbowrajn,
September 10, 1787.
V. AGARICUS Jlipitatus, pileo piano, lameilis befidus -Jiipite,
ilmntus, lamella et piled al&o.
I V O R Y AGARI C.
T A B . " IV. P i G. ' II.
' I VHE whole plant is of a pure white colour, pellucid, and
A feems as if made of ivory.
Grows in meadows, amongft the grafs, in September. The
Specimen here figured, I gathered amongft the grafs under the
elm trees near Stannary-Lane, September, 1787.