20 AN HISTORY' OF AGARICS,
xxr. AGARICUS Jiipitatus, pileo campanulato plicato atro, Jiipite
pdlatiu. kngo ventricofo albido. Fungus-pileolo cumpanulato vertice
levi, &c. Mich: Gen: p. 1,8-9, 80, Jig. 5.
M O U R N I N G AGARIC.
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' " j p HE root confifts of a few grey dawny fibres, furrounding
the bottom of the ftem, and extending therrifelves on the
furface of the matter wherein it grows, for afmall fpace, round
about. ' • . . • • • 1 .
The ilem is, feven or eight inches high, of a filver white,
fiftular, and fwelling. towards the lower part, juft like the feeding
ilem of an onion 5 it is of a very tender fubftance, and
eafijy divides,in white filky tender filaments.
The pileus and gills feem to beinfeperable, or united in.
one fubftance; they are plaited like a fan. The fubftance tender,
watery, pellucid, of a pale colour, but thickly covered
with a black glutin, or moift powder, which diffolvds on being
touched. The weight of the pileus, and weaknefs of the item,
makes it very difficult to take up the plant without breaking,
the neck'of the ftem ; as is expreffed in one of the figures. .
Grows in the fpace of anight, and falls and diftblves the
following day. The fpecimen, from which I took the figure,
diifolved in the time of drawing into a black vifcid liquor'
which, when dry, lay like a footy powder on the table, June
22, 1786. :
Grows on dunghills, or in fat meadows. The pileus at'its
firft appearance, ;is covered with a grey dawny volva, which
foon vaniihes.
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