G R O W I N G ABOUT HALIFAX. 51
AGARICUS Jiipitatus, pileo Jubconico Jicco elajlico, lamellis LVIII.
paucis trifidis, Jlipite prcelongo gracili. atm.ru/us.
LITTLE DARK - BROWN AGARIC.
T A B . LI. . F'l G. I.
HpHE root is a little round tubercle, the fize of a rapefeed,
emitting a few dawny fibres.
The item is cylindrical, filiform, dry, elaitic, and of a
brown colour. There is no curtain.
The gills are in three feries, few in number, tough, pliable,
and of a reddiih brown colour.
The pileus bluntly cone-ihaped or convex, fmooth, dry,
and of a dark brown.
Grows in dry and barren paiture grounds, amongft various
kinds of mofs.
AGARICUS Jiipitatus luteus, Jiipitis parte inferiore et pileo . Llxcomco
villofis, lamejlis albis numerous denfis. croceus.
SAFFRON - COLOURED AGARIC.
T A B . LI. FIG. II. .
»•JpHE root confifts of a multitude of dawny fibres, adhering
to a misihapen piece of fungous matter, which fends up
numerous plants in fucceifion.
i The is round> upright, folid, three inches high, and
the greateft part thereof, as well as the whole furfaceof the
pileus, is covered with a clofe nap or hairy dawny covering of
a pale faffron colour, which ferves. the purpofe of a volva to
the pileus and item, but does not enwrap the root.
break^ a n d ^ / r °Vh e fiH N S * Unf° l d ' the volva
and of a ^ l e t e l W a i r v r ' 3 ffiffiS 1 i F 3 "a k e d '
nuni?ousglllS ^ in thr e e f e r i ^ they are white and
Grows in the Burks, and other woodsabout Halifax.