So AN HISTORY* OF AGARICS,
AGARICUS totus luteus, Jlipite fubbulbofo annulato, ptleo obtufo
conico pilofofquamofo, velo araneofo, fubjlantia Jicca.
YELLOW COTTONY AGARIC.
t a b . L.
' " p H E root is a misihapen piece of fungous matter, covered
with innumerable grey mouldy fibres, and produces numerous
plants in fucceffion.
The item is fwollen or bulbous at the bafe, d'iminiihing
gradually upwards.
The curtain is extremely delicate and tender, breaks and
vaniihes while the plant is young; it originates in a dawny annulus
or ring, which furrounds the item, and abides after its
difappearance.
The gills arranged in one feries, numerous, lance-ihaped,
not adhering to the item, the fubitance light, tender, and delicate.
The pileus cone-ihaped, blunt at top, in its infancy
wrapped up in a dawny volva or epidermis, which is proper to
itfelf, and which is broken by the increafe of its growth, and
remains in little, foft, cottony tufts on the furfacej the margin
is irregularly waved and undulated, and in the lait ftages of the
plant becomes ftriated.
The whole plant is of a bright yellow colour, and of a dry,
light, cottony fubitance.
The fpecimen here figured and defcribed, grew amonit the
bark in the pine-itove belonging to J. CAYGILL, Efq; at Sha,
near Halifax, in Auguit, 1785.