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A G A R I C U S Jiipitatusy pileo convexo cinerea verrueofo, verrucis LIV.
lamellifque albis, Jlipite bafi bulbofo. Hudfon Ang. 613, wrrunfut.
No. 11.
W A R T Y AGARIC.
T A B . XLVII.
THE root, as in the laft fpecies, is a little fwelled, or approaching
to a bulb-ihape, efpecially while the plant is
young; it is furround^d with a large, white, lobed, permanent
volva^ which emits a number of fibres from its bafe.
The item is firm, folid, upright, cylindrical, of a brittle
fubilance, and four or five inches high.
The curtain is white, tough, foft and dawny to the touch;
it feparates from the pileus all round the rim, without being
torn, and remains on the ilem.
The gills are arranged in three feries, but variable in their
refpedtive lengths; they are deep or broad, white, foft, pliable,
and numerous.
The pileus is globular at its firit eruption from the volva,
and clofely covered with prominent warts, which are not the
fragments, of any volva, but of a fubilance fimilar to that of
the pileus, and grow thereupon they are hard, of a firm texture,
and on being forced from the pileus will break its furface j
they increafe proportionably with the plant in the progrefs of
its growth, and at its maturity are eafily feparable therefrom,
leaving pale marks on the parts of the furface which they
occupied.
The colour of the warts is a little paler than that of the
furface of the pileus, both are of a brownifh duiky moufe
colour; the fleih is thick, white, and brittle.
Grows in woods, about the roots of trees, but is a rare
fpecies here. The fpecimen here reprefented, I gathered in
the Shroggs, oppofite Birks-Hall.
It differs from the A. nobilis and A. mufcarius, in that the
inequalities on it's furface are growing tubercles, and not loofe
fragments.
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