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G R O W I N G ABOUT HALIFAX. 25
AGARICUS ß¡pit at us, pileo conico grifeo vifcido, margine xxvi.
< inoequale, lamellis integris profundi's fordide coeruleus, fiipite . iuridus.
, folida arc.uata.
F O U L A G A R I C .
T A B. XXV.
/T*'HE root is'hard and miihapen, of a dirty brown, emitting
many fibres, fuftaining one or more plants, and is deilitute
of volva.
The ftem is hard, folid, crooked, or bent in various directions
; it is about the thicknefs of one's little finger, of an ugly
pale litter-colour, and four inches high : there is no curtain.
The gills are in one feries, extended from the rim of the
pileus to the centre, but do not adhere to, or even touch the
ftem ;_they are'extremely numerous, and very clofely arranged ;
they are deep and large, rendering the pileus heavy by their
great number; they are of a difagreeable fordid greyiih blue,
and in decay diiTolve in a brown ftinking fluid.
The pileus irregularly cone-ihaped, diameter ,of thè bafe
two inches and à half, height from the bafe to the top about
the fame meafure j it is of a kind of duiky greyiih hue, with
a caft of dirty olive colour ; is. quite fmooth, and covered with
a thick llippery loathfome half-congealed fluid. The margin is
lobed, and finuated in an irregular manner ; the lobes and hol-
~ lows being very unequal and. fometimes feparated by deep
gaihes.
Grows on Gibbet-Hill, and in fome other places near Halifax,—
It differs from the A . jlriàtus, as will be feen hereafter.
In this fpecies wé frequently find feveral young plants adhering
to the root of a full grown one.
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