36 AN HISTORY ©F AGARICS,
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XXXVI. AGARICUS Jlipitatus, pileo convexo, lamellis trijidis profundis,
Jjtipite lortga, tot a plant a r uberrima*
R E D AGARIC.
T A ; B. XXXVI.
n ^ H E root confifts of a great number'©/ ihort dawny fibres,
•connedted to the bottom of the item : it is not furrounded
by a volva.
The ftem- is. hard, folid, generally curved or bent5 it is
fwollen near the bottom, elfewhere equals and about the thicknefs
of a goofe-quill; ic is four or five inches high, and of a
ftrong bright red, as are all the other parts of the plant: there
is no curtain.
The gills, are in three feries, deep, regularly and beautifully
arranged they are thin, tranfparent, and, when feen between
the eye and the light, are of a bright and glowing ruby colour.
The pileus- is an inch and a half in diameter, opaque, and
of a fine dark red • ft-feels cottony to the touch, but there is no;
perceptible dawn.
This Agaric I iaw growing in ieveral places in a little range
©f wood, belonging to Shibden-Hall, near Halifax, October 29,
1786; where I gathered the five fpecimens which are exaftly
figured on plate 36.—I never met with it elfewhere..
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