S 4 'AN HISTORY OF AGARICS,
AGARICUS ppitatus, pileo campanulato fufco Jiriato glabro,
lamellis grifeis margine crifpis, ftipite fiftuhfo. Uudfon
Angl. 617.
S T R I A T E D AGARIC.
T A B. LIV.
THE root confiits of a few fibres iffuing from the bottom of
the item. Authors mention a taper root, running under
ground, which I have not yet been able to difcover.
The item is upright, white, fiitular, gently tapering from
the root, and five or fix inches high.
The curtain vaniihes as foon as the rim of the pileus begins
to expand, leaving an obfcure black mark on the item, which
foon vaniihes.
The gills are all of equal length, broadeit in the middle,
and gradually diminiihing to each extremity where they are
pointed; they are grey in the firft itages of the plant turning
black in decay. In large fpecimens, when juit ready to fall,
t h e f e e d s a r e fometimes viiible to the naked eye, lying like a
red powder, on the edges of the half-diifolved gills.
The pileus is of an oval-ihape, with one end lopped off;
;
the rim his lobed and much contracted;' the furface ftrongly
itriated, from the verge to near the fummit, where it is fmooth;
the colour is generally a reddiih brown, fometimes it inclines
.to an aicolour; and in very damp places I have feent the
pileus in young plants covered with pellucid grains, which,
when rubbed off, feel iharp between the fingers.
The plant varies greatly in various foils; fometimes it grows
fingly on the ground, is large, and of a red brown; fometimes
in vait cluiters upon wet decayed wood; and is of a pale,
brown, a£h colour or grey-.-the whole at lait diffoives in a
black liquor.
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