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G R O W I N G ABOUT HALIFAX. 19
AGARICUS Jiipuatus, fileo fulvo, anguflo convexo, lameths
Zuftus crajjis, Jiipite ramofo c r a j o fpongtofo fufco. Battara,
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L A R C H A G A R I C.
• T A B. XIX.
J | root confifts of an irregular mifhapen hard piece, of
T Rt t er , illited, in • and ihape, to the cavities wherein
it p-rOws as | it had been caft there in a mould I upwards|
H M feveral ftems, which are the thrcknefs of one s thumb •¡MB Plants I the ftems comprefs one another near the
r o o t and are frequently united in their fubftance growing out
M o t h e r , and are a&ually branched; the .colour is a dead
greviih brown, and the fubftance foft, fpongy, and eafily compreffible:
the root is deftitute of volva.
The curtain is narrow, of a dead white colour, and a foft
cottony fubftance. -
The;- trills are in two feries, of unequal length"; they are
; few, narrow, grofs, brittle, and white.
The • is fox-coloured*, feels foft and clothy to the
t o u c h I • diameter is often .not much.more than that of the
W is conftantly Of a convex figure, and a dry, .light
>• fpongy M M I eafily compreffible between the fingers R and
S t l y , on removing the preffure, re-aifumes its own form.
Grows on the bark of larch trees, when in aftate of decay ,
it feems to-take-root between the wood and the bark, thelattei
' of which it burfts to make itfelf way.
The fpecimen here figured, I.gathered in a little plantation
at Lee-Bridge, near Halifax; where I have feen the plant every
Autumn, for feveral years paft.
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