G R O W I N G ABOUT HALIFAX. 35
AGARICUS Jiipitatus, pileo conico, margins undnlato Jlriato,
larriellis trifidis aurnticarneis,.Jiipite fijfa longa minute Jlriata.
SPLIT-STALKED AGARIC.
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'"jp'HE root is a round, hard tubercle, of a brown colour,
furniihed with numerous ihort dawny fibres ; and is not
furroumied by a volva.
The item is the thicknefs of a goofe-quill, and four or five
inches «high ; it is fiitular, and moil commonly flat or comprefied.
It appears to be of a pale grey colour, but on being
clofely examined, is found to be neatly ftriped with fine longitudinal
ilripes, alternately, of à mOufe-colour and à filky
white, and as fine almoft as hairs. It is further remarkable in
this, that when the plant is arrived to its perfeit ftate, it frer
quèntly fplits from top to 'bottom, the two halves rolling their
edgçs"together, and forming each an hollow tube -, after which
it abides for feveral days, and appears as if the pileus was fup~
ported upon two items : there is no curtain.
The gills are arranged in three feries, deep, numerous,'thin,
flexible ; and of . a colour between carnation and orange.
The pileus from one to two inches in diameter, ilriated near
the margin, where it is. of a duiky kind of olive colour, but
brown at the apex.
Grows in thé- Sbroggs, the Burks, the North-Bean, and
feveral other woods about Halifax, as I have obferved this year