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G R O W I N G ABOUT HALIFAX, 59
AGARICUS fiipitatus, pileo et lamellis livido fufcis, centro um- LXVII
bilicate margine deflexo, ßipite baß craßore. Dixon Cript. ford,dui
P. 16. T. 3. F.i.
S O R D I D AGARIC.
T A B . LIX.
THE root or bafe is a little thicker than the item it is hard,
of a dark brown colour, and emits a few blick fibres.
The item is cylindrical while young, folid, and of a pale
brown colour ; afterwards becomes fiftular, and changes to a
dark fordid brown.
The gills are in- three feries, thin, narrow, and arched;
thofe of the firft feries touching the top of theftem with a narrow
bafe ; they are pliable, tough, ef a duiky brown, tinged
with a fleihy hue.
Thè afterwards it becomes horizontal, next umbilicated in the
centre, and laftly funnel-ihaped ; the furface is fmooth, feels to
the touch like vellum, ihines a little,- and is of a darkiih moufe
colour when at maturity; it is thin of fleih; the fubftance.
tough and leathern; it abides for a long time, and turns quite
black in decay.
Grows in low meadows, where the grafs is deep and the foil
rich; it is a late fpecies, being moil plentiful in November and
December.
T o feveral drawings of this Agaric, which I have formerly
made for my friends, I put the trivial pezizoides, but to avoid
confufion, have here made ufe of ßrdidus, as given by my
friend DICKSON.