6 AN HISTORY OF. AGARICS,
AGARICUS Jiipitatus, pileo repandofemipllucido, lamellis trifidis
cameo pallidis, Jlipite Jijiulofo albo.
S P R E A D I N G AGARIC.
T A. B. • VI.
/ T r H E root tapers to a point, from which it fends-out a few
hard crooked fibres, an inch or two in length ; it has no
volva:..' •;:
The item white, ihining, with a filkyglofs, largeft near
the bottom, gradually tapering upwards, lbmctimes a little
twifted, and of an irregular furface. It is five inches high,
fiitular, and eafily fplits in fmall white ihining filaments ¡ there
is no curtain.
The gills are in three feries, deep and very remote, terminating
in a broad bafe, but not adhering to the'item. See
figure A. They aré of a tender left pliable fubfiance, and
tingjed with a faint duíky fleih colour.
The pileus convex at firft, when in perfection horizontal,
ipreading out at the rim; four or five inches diameter; of a
d,ead white colour, a tender watery fubftance, and deftitute of
fleih.
Grows in the ihady parts of woods in the neighbourhood
of Halifax, in Augufi and September.