IO AN, H I S T O R Y of AGARICS,
XI. AGARICUS Jlipitafus, pileo fubconico caftaneo, lamellis, trifidis»
caftaneus. . . " " -. Jiipife albo jijiulofo, cor find albaWh
C H E S N U T AGARIC.
v T A ' B. ;
^ H E foot is a fmall, irregular, roundiih bulb, of-a firm
fubftance, emitting a few hard brown fibres'; it is not furrounded
by a volva, aind produces one plant only. ;
The ftem is cylindrical, white, and the thicknefs of a goofequill;
it is fiilular, with. a fmall perforation-; the fubftance
firm, elaftic,V and eafily divides in fine filky fibres. Its height
is about three inches.
The curtain is ,thin and delicate, breaks from the centre,
hangs for ar little while-to the rim of the pileus, and then
vaniihes, leaving no annulus on the ftem; it is white.
The pileus at firft conial, with an obtufe point, afterwards
becomes hemifpherical, and at laft nearly flat. The furface is •
fmooth'i and of a bright beautiful chefnut brown.
The gills are in three feries; the third feries very ihort, and
while the plant is young imperceptible; they are' of a very pale
• buff colour, and of a thin and delicate texture.
This is a rare fpecies ; I have only feen it in two or three
places, particularly in a little wood called Bracken^Bed-IVood,
in Ovenden, where I gathered the fpecimen here figured and
defcribed, in O&ober, 1786.