48 AN HISTORY OF AGARICS,
LV. AGARICDS Jiipitatus totus albus, Jiipite bulbofo volvato, pileo
nsrnalii. hemifphcerico Jplendente glutinojb, velo areneofo manente.
BULBOUS VERNAL AGARIC.
T A B. XLVIIIV
'"T^HE root is a large globular bulb, of a ibft fpongy fub-
"®> " ftance, white, and furrounded by a foft, white, bilobate
volva.
The ftem is folid, fmooth, upright, white, foft, fpongy,
brittle, and three or four inches high.
The curtain is white, very delicate, while it is extended
over the gills it appears like a thin dawny fpider's web; after
it is difengaged from the rim it contradts, and abides on the
item for a ihort time.
The firft feries of gills lance ihaped at both extremities,
not adhering to the ftem; they are interfered by a fecond and
third feries, irregularly j are white and of a thin and delicate
fubftance.
The pileus is at firft globular, at laft hemifpherical; the
furface fmooth as fine vellum, and covered with a llippery,
ihining glutin; the fleih or internal fubftance is fofti white, and
dawny.
I have feen a large variety of this fpecies wherein the curtain
was wanting, and the ftem covered from to top to bottom with
a kind of loofe cottony dawn.
Grows in woods about Halifax, both in fpring and autumn^
I have named it vernalis rather than bulbofus, becaufe HUDSON
has already given the latter name to a very different fpecies.
—It is of a poifonous quality, and many have fuffered. by eating it.
'The moji approved cure, according to B U L L I A R D , is JirJi of all to
take an Emetic, and afterwards ten or twelve drops of Vitriolic
/Ether in wine-, if this Jhould not fucceed, bruife a clove of Garlic
in milk, and give it to the patient.