G R O W I N G ABOUT HALIFAX. 49
AGARICUS Jlipitatus, pileo pulvinato fubvifcido margine in- LVI.
tegro jlriato, lamellis minor is bafi t rune at is,—volva lata fuhihafut.
lobata permanere, velo nulla.
C U S H I O N AGARIC.
T A B . XLIX.
THE root is bulbous, large, and furrounded with a large,
thick, lobed, grey, dawny volva, which remains till the
decay of the plant; it emits fibres from its bafe.
The ftem folid, upright, round, fmooth,, and of a de^d
dark grey colour; it is thick and grofs at firft, but decreafes in
thicknefs as it advances in height. There is no curtain.
The gills are arranged in three feries, and are ftraight or even
on the edges, making the under furface plain or fiat; the firft
feries terminate in a point at the bafe, and do not adhere to the
item; thofe of the fecond and third feries are cut off at the
bafe by a right line obliquely, by which peculiarity the fpecies
is at once diftinguiihed.
The pileus at firft globular, and glutinous, afterwards becomes
cuihion-ihaped and dry j the margin even, and ftrongly
ftriated the furface is of a clothy touch, and a kind of mixed
browniih moufe colour; the internal fubftance white and
fpongy.
This fpecies is rare about Halifax; it grows, in woods, in
fhady moift places. The fpecimen here defcribed, I gathered
in Ramfden, September 27, 1787; and have feen the plant ilk
fome other woods in this neighbourhood.