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AGARICUSJlipitatus, pileo infundibuliforme margine elegantiffime LXIX.
crifpato lobato fimbriato tenue albo femitranfparente, lamellis fimbriate,
trifidis longijfimis angajlijjimis pellucidis, Jiipite gracile breve.
F I M B R I A T E D AGARIC.
T A B . LXI.
THE root confifts of a few fibres iiTuing from the bottom of
the item.
The item is about an inch high, fmooth, folid, tough, pellucid,
and of a duiky watery white colour.
The gills-are arranged in three feries, diftinft, very long,
very narrow, very thin and delicate; the fubftance is pellucid,
tender, turning to a watery gelly, on being preffed between
the fingers j the colour a greyiih watery white.
The pileus at its firft appearance is convex, afterwards becomes
horizontal, and when at maturity funnel-ihaped; the
margin at all times waved, lobed, curled, and undulated in the
moft elegant manner;-the furface is fmooth as vellum, ihines
a little, by m e a n s of a moifture which is.not glutinous, and is
of the fame colour as the item and gills; the fubftance is
thin, tender, and femitranfparent.
I have feen this plant in feveral ihady moift woods about
Halifax. The fpecimen here defcribed, I gathered in Stump-
Wood, in Northowram, in Auguft, 1787.
The fubftance and figure of this plant, diftinguiih it at once
from all its congeners.—I find no fatisfaftory account of it in
any author, fince STEERBECK, who in his theater of Fungujfes,
P. 119, calls it auricula leporis alba, and has given two figures
of it. Plate 15, J3. JB.
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