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G R O W I N G ABOUT HALIFAX. 53
AGARICUS Jìipitatus, pìleo conico primo tetto pulvere niveo,
pojiea glutinofo, margine cìliata, lamellis trijìdis nignis, Jiipite
bulbojò.
• E Y E L A S H E D AGARIC.
T A B . LIU.
THE root is fwollen fo as to approach-to a bulb-ihape, and
emits numerous black fibres.
The item is hard, cylindrical, folid near the bafe, but
fiftular, with a fmall perforation, near the top ; it is round,
fmooth, firm, and five or fix inches high ; eafily fplits in fine
ilender filaments, is white, and fometimes covered with a grey
powder.
The curtain breaks and vaniihes while the plant is young,
leaving a grey indiftinét annulus on the item.
The gills are of a footy grey, arranged in three feries, irregularly
; they are narrow at thè bafe, and broad towards the external
extremity, of a foft and tender fubftance.
The pileus while young (if the feafon is dry) is covered
with a fnow white powder, the particles whereof glitter when
viewed in the fun, juft like thofe on the petals of a white lily,
or anarciifus :—this powder foon diifolves, and covers the pileus
with a ilippery "glutin ; at full growth it is of a conical ihape,
blunt at top, of a pale kind of ftraw colour, and a fmooth
vellumy furface. It is lingular^ in that the margin is extended
beyond the extremity of the gills, and terminates in a lhort
black ciliation.
Grows moil frequently on freih dunghills -, fometimes I
have feen it in pafture grounds.
It differs from A. plicatus, Jtriatus, luridus, et Jimetarius, in
that the gills are in feveral feries, of unequal length; from the
A. clypeatus, in magnitude, and in the blunt external termination
of the gills ; and from all others in the marginal fringe.
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