8 AN HISTORY OF AGARICS,
IX. A.GARlQ\JSJipitatus, pileo hbato, lamellis trifidis decurren-
~ ; r tibus,ftipiteUortuofo..
CORNUCOPIA AGARIC.
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''J^HE root is tough, irregular, much twilled, and furrounded
with numerous-woolly fibres, of a red brown colour; In
inch or two from the bottom divides in feveral flat twilled furrowed
items, of a black brown- colour, and a tough elaftic
leathery fubfiance; upwards they enlarge, and become more
vifibly twilled, are ftrongly corded or nerved, which cords or
nerves are a continuation of the decurrency of the gills. Thefe
.Hems grow four or five in number, from the fame root, are
four or five inches high, ,and of a dead brown colour;
The gills are in three or four feries, they are remote, narrow,
tough, and of a dead, buff brown; they are remarkably
decurrent, their bafes- running down the item, even -to-the,
root: ;
The pileus three inches diameter, lobed in a fingular and
not inelegant manner. The lobes are four or five in number,
waved and curled on'the edges, thin, or almoil defiitutc of
flelh, of a tough elaftic fubftance, and a duiky cinnamon
Colour.
Grows in ihady woods about Halifax, but not plentifully.
The plant- here figured> I gathered in a little wood, near the"
farm called Brakenbed, in Ovenden, September 3, 1787.