14, AN HISTORY OF AGARICS,
XV. AGARICUS Jlipitatus pileo globofo purpurea, lamellis croceis
ferraifs. ferratis.
AGARIC WITH SERRATED GILLS.
T A. B. XIV.
'"T^HE root is an hard blunt termination of the ftcm; it is of
•' a brittle fubftance, andfeems to adhere to the ground by
its bafe, without vifible fibres: there is no volva.
The item is round, upright, .hard, and folid; it is the
thicknefs of one's thumb, three inches long, and of a duiky
gold colour; the fubftance within a pale yellow, brittle, and
ipongy ; not divifible in filaments: there is no curtain.
The gills in three feries, rather remote, ftrong, grofs, and
brittle, adhering to the item by a narrow claw; their colour is
a fine gold yellow, and they are remarkable, in being vifibly
ferrated on the edges with a browniih colour.
The pileus globular, three inches in diameter, of a bloomy
purple colour; it is foft, and feels to the touch like fine.woollen
cloth, yet there is no vifible dawn The fleih or fubftance
is thick, brittle, 'and white. The whole plant diifolves in a
brown loathfome jelly, about the third day from its firft fpringing
up;
Grows in woods, but is rare. The fpecimen here figured
grew in the plantation at Bramham, near .Leeds; it grew under
the trees to the left.hand, when you enter the park by a footway
from Keddocw->Lane-Head, Auguil 28, 1786.
G R O W I N G ABOUT HALIFAX. *5
AGARICUS Jlipitatus, pileo cumpanulato fufco vifcido, lameHis
' trifidis albis, Jliplte Jifiulofo albo.
N E A T AGARIC.
T A B. , XV.
^ H E root- is a little fwollen, frequently cpmpreffed or of
T H * irregular figure ; it has a few proper fibres, and is not
, furroun ded by a volva. ^
The item is the thicknefs of a goofe-quill, white, fiftulaf,
, M i delicate fubftance; M H or three inches
high, and has no curtain.
The' gills are in thre;e feries, numerous, deep of a thin
* pliable tenure, clofely and beautifully arrangedI their colour,
like that of the ftem, is white.
• • • • • •
a brown turgid jelly.
Trows in moift places in feveral woods about Halifax.- The
f p e ^ I a he" figured, I gathered in the I * * , . o r Jfcr*.
September 23, 1786.