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G R O W I N G ABOUT HALIFAX. 21
AGARICUS jlipita'tus, pileo plariiufculo laBefcente margbie XXIR.
* dejlex<r, iamellis ramofus pallidis. piper am.
WHITE PEPPER AGARIC.
A B. .'¡f&xi.
/"T"VHE root coniifts of a few fhort fibres, adhering to the bot-
-*- torn of the item, which terminates in an obtufe point:
there is no volva.
The item is white, fmalleft above and below-, fwollen in
the middle, where it is an inch or more in diameter; the fur- .
face is fmooth, and the fubft&nce firm, folid, hard, and very
brittle : there is no curtain.
The gillsf are'extremely numerous and irregular ; their central
extremity juft .touches, fcarce adheres to, the top of the .
item; they are narrow, and of brittle fubftance; of a-very pale
milk colour, and exhibit no proper arrangement, the fhorter
being united unto the longer, or iifuing from them in a branched
Order; fome are entire for their whole length, others are divided
and Subdivided in a diihotomous order, as in the Agaricus
chanterettus. • - •
The-pileus is ' white, fmooth, hard, and brittle; at firil
much defle&ed round the rim, afterwards becomes horizontal,
"and at lail funnel-ihaped. When either the pileus, gills, or
item are wounded, there iifues, out a milk, of an hot peppery
tafte, and leaves' a difagreeable fenfation on the tongue for fqtne
hours'..,
Grows, in woods about Halifax.
This is the true Pepper Agaric, found by Dr. LISTER in
Morton woods, under Pinno-Moor, Craven. See Raii: Syn:
p. 5. There is another Agaric, with which this feems to have
been confounded, as will appear in the courfe of this work.