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G R O W I N G , A B O U T HALIFAX. 33
AGARICUS fiipitafus, pileo hemifphcerico plumofo murino, XXXIV
lamellis trifidis albidisJiipite longo plumofo. flum/ut
F E A T H E R E D AGARIC.
- T A "B. .' XXXIH.'
•"T^HE root is round, hard, the fize of a pea, of a browniih
. black-colour, and emitting a few long hard fibres: it;is
not furrounded by a Volva.
The ilem is hard, folid, cylindrical, often bended or waved,
the thicknefs of a duck's quill, and about four inches high -, it .
is clofely covered with fmall dawny or feathery tufts, of a perfect
moufe-colour : there is no curtain.
The gills are in three feries, deep, and terminate in a claw
at the bafe, which j aft touches the top of the item ; they are
numerous, foft, flexible, white, and of a dry light fubftance.
The pileus-is hemifpherical, an inch and a half in diameter,
of a perfedt moufe-colour, and, like the item, thickly covered
with little tufts'of a dawny matter, -which grow from its furface,
and are of the fame colour with it; there is a beautiful
fringe, of the fame dawn, all round its margin. The fubftance
is thin, light, dry, and flexible: it withers' in decay.
This curious and beautiful Agaric, I gathered in a little
fteep wood," belonging to the farm called Ram/den, in the
townihip of Ovenden, near Halifax, Auguft, 1787 ;Nit grew-in
plenty there.