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G R O W I N G ABOUT HALIFAX. 55
AG ARICUS Jlipitatus, pileo convexo margine involuto, lamellis LXUI.
trtfidis decurrentibus, Jlipite adfcendente. adjcenden-
C U R V E D AGARIC.
T A B . LV.
THE root is hard, of a dark brown, fends out many black,
hard, ihort fibres, and fuftains one plant only.
The ftem is hard, folid, of a browniih fnufF colour, and
about three inches high ; it grows on the perpendicular furface
of the broken earth, befides deep lanes and pathways in woods ;
it grows at firft horizontally, and then curves gradually upwards.
The gills are in three feries ; thofe of the firft running down
the ftem, in a narrow pointed bafe ; they are numerous, of a
dry pliable fubftance, and a pale brown colour.
The pileus is convex from firft to laft, very much rolled in
at thé margin, where it is fmooth and entire ;—a little above
the margin, on the molt prominent part of the pileus, all
round about, is a band or belt of a velvety furface; it is about
one fourth of an inch in breadth, more or lefs, in proportion
to the fize of the fpecimen above this, on the top or upper
part, the pileus is fmooth, and ihines as if it were glazed :—
the fubftance of the whole is hard, dry, and brittle ; the colour
a reddiih brown.
This plant agrees with the A. laBifiuus in fome particulars,
but differs from it in having the ftem conftantly curved, in the
velvety belt on the pileus, and in that the whole is of a dry
fubftance, and yields no milk.
Grows in the Burks, and other woods about Halifax, in
September and Odtober.
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