G R O W I N G -ABOUT HALIFAX. 37
AGARICUS Jiiptatus, fileo campanulato membranaceo, lamellh xxxviir.
trifidis aMidifpdlucidisi Jiipite longi£irnopellucidQ albido. '
S L E N D E R AGARIC.
n r HE'root'confifts of numerous white dawny fibres, which
i infmuate themfelves into the fubftance, or fpread upon .
the furface; of decaying leaved fticks, and other vegetable iubftances
: tliere is no volva. _
The (lem is equal, fmooth, white, pellucid, the thicknefe,
of a fmall pack-thread, and fix,inCheSJhigh i « extremely
tender and brittle,' breaks,and diffolves.on being touched: there
is no curtain.
The ,gills arc few, arranged in three feries, very thin and
delicate, white, and of a pellucid watery fubftance.
Thi pileus-at firft conical, afterwards bell-ihaped, fmooth^
— and -of a Watery white, except the apex, which M
W W W pale browniih mtfufe-colourthe furface is,
fmooth and plain till the plant begins to,decay; it then appears
ftriated round the'rim,- and. prefently falls and. diffolves.
Grow« in the deep, moift,-andjhady parts of. woods, where
the air is ilill and/calm; particularly, in a little wood above
Lee-Bridge, near the Brook, below Burks-Lane, nea'r Halifax,
The fpecimcn above-defcribed, was gathered there, in the be_
ginning of September, 1783. I have. Teen it in Woodboufe-
Woodi North-Dean, and feveral other like places