So AN HISTORY OF .AGARICS,
XXXI. AGARICUS Jlipitatus, pileo convexo viridi lamellis fufcis- bejidis,
i"litU5' cortina glauco grifeo, Jiipit-e breyk
GREEN POLISHED AGARIC,
T A B. XXX.
*"jpHE root is hard, firm, obtufe, and covered with numerous
grey dawny fibres: there is no volva.
The item is round, hard, firm, folid, and an inch and a
half high; it is of a warm brown,.or ferruginous colour, and
rather diminilhes in thicknefs from the bottom upwards.
The curtain is of a g*eyiih pale blue green, on the outfide,
and feems covered with a glaucus duft ; on the infide'it is the
fame colour as'the gills: it abides in fragments on the .item,
and on the rim of the pileus, for a little while after its breaking
The gills are in two feries, not adhering to the item ; they
are deep, and of a pretty ferruginous brown; they are numerous,
and of a thin pliable fubftance.
The pileus is at firft egg-ihaped, then becomes hemifpheri-
- cal, afterwards fpreads out at the verge, and lacerates ; it is
two or three inches diameter, and of a beautiful bright blueiih
green; at firft it is covered with a glutin, or gummy fluid, which .
when dry a£ts like rich varniih, and gives an excellent ihining
glofly poliih to the furface% In decay the colour fades, and the
plant diffolves at the age of eight or ten days.
Grows under fir trees in the plantations about Fixby-Hall,
and elfewhere. It takes root amongft the fallen leaves^ juft as
the Hydnum aurifcalpum does, on the decaying cones; I never
met with it growing in any other kind of foil. "