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fPBBHHPPfM pileo lamellis et ftpite albido, tot a plant a XVIII.
cori•a ceaI . .' . umbillcatus.
N A V E L AGARIC.
T A B. ' . XVII. .
n p H E root is a little hard tubercle, the fize of a imall pea,
A of a browniih colour, and furniihed with a'great number
of fine ihort capillary greyiih fibres: there is no volva.
The ftem is round, cylindrical, the thicknefs of a duck's
quill, three inches high, of a dead white colour, and of" a folid,
firm,'tough, elaftic fubftance; but eafily fplit-s from end to end,
in white, fpringy, ihining filaments: there is no curtain.]
The gills are difpofed in three feries, rather broad than otherwife,
remotely placed, white, and of a tough and pliable fubftance.
The pileus at firft convex, afterwards becomes horizontal
and depreffed in th& centre, with a cavity refembling a rtavel;
it is from one to two inches diameter, of a white colour, a
fmooth furface, and a tough elaftic fubftance. The,plant is
of a flow growth, and abides for weeks 5 in decay the colour
changes from white to a yellowiih brown, after which it melts
in a brown liquor.
Grows in clofe plantations, particularly thofe of fir or
larch, from July to Oitober. It abounds in the plantations
about Fixby-Hall, the feat of T. THORNHILL, Efq; The rich
and extenfive plantations around that rural and beautiful Villa,
have afforded me feveral curious and undefcribed fpecies of
Britiih Fungi.
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