56 AN HISTORY OF AGARICS,
AGARICUS jlipitatus, fileo convexo fulvo glabra, lamellis trijidis
remotis crajjis decurrentibus, jiipite folida baji acuminata.
F U L V O U S AGARIC.
T A B . LXIV.
THE root confifts of a few fibres, Hiding from the pointed
termination or origin of the item; the part from which
thefe fibres iffue, in this as well as moft other Agarics, is covered
with a mucor-like dawninefs, which poflibly may be the
remains of a volva, which covered the plant when in a ftate of
embrio, too minute for our obfervation.
The ftem is round, upright, folid and firm; it is-eafily divided
into fine flender filaments, of a ihining white; it tapers
near the root, where it terminates in an obtufe point; it is a
pale kind of buff colour, nearly white.
The gills are in three feries, grofs, remote, arched, and
adhering to the ftem by a broad decurrent bafe; the colour is
a pale, pleafant, fulvous brown.
The pileus is of a globular ihape at firft, in the progrefs
becomes hemifpherical, and laftly horizontal; fometimes the
rim rolls back, fo as to ihew the points of the gills all round,
on the upper-fide; the colour is at firft a bright fulvous brown,
growing paler as it advances in age, and in decay changes to a
pale dirty white; the furface is fmooth and filky to the touch.
Grows in dry and barren pafture grounds about Halifax, in
September and O&ober.