S8 AN HISTORY OF AGARICS,
LXVT. AGAR ICUS fiipitatus, pileo hemifpberico fubpellucido, lamellis
perenatus. trifidis paucis angußis pellucidis, ßipite parte fuperior glabro,
inferior lanuginofo, baß arcuato.
SPATTERDASHED AGARIC.
T A B . EX VIII.
THE root is flat, compreffed, crooked or bowed, and adheres
by numerous fibres to heaps of fallen decaying oak leaves,
in moift and putrid places.
The item is folid, firm, and tough; of a pale ftraw colour,
and three inches high: the upper part is cylindrical and fmooth,
but from the middle downwards, it is furrounded with an eredl
cottony dawn or woollinefs, of a bright yellow colour,—which
not unaptly refembles the ftraw fpatterdaßj, worn in time of
fnow by the mountaineers in Torkfiire.
The gills are in three feries, few, thin, and narrow thofe
of the firft feries adhering to the ftem by a narrow bafej they
are of a pale watery ilraw colour, and pellucid.
The pileus is hemifpherical, acute at the rim, where it becomes
waved when old; it is thin, femipellucid, and deftitute
of fleih; the furface feels clothy to the touch, and appears to
the eye like a mixture of brown and white wool.
It is a rare fpecies herej grows in the deep and moift parts
of woods, amongft the fallen oak leaves. The fpecimens here
figured and defcribed, grew in a little wood, called Trough of
Holland) in Northoivram, near Halifax, September 10, 1787.
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