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AGARICUS FIT^ T K " M " I S 'JSL Jlipitague violaceis. Hud/on Angl. b 12, o M
A M E T H Y S T AGARIC.
T A B. LXIII.
* v M root is brown, roundiih, thicker than the ftem, and
T fumiihed with a great number of grey dawny fibres, ot a
mould-like fubftance.
i t s .
quently three or four roots are entangled together by tn
fibres. 1
The gills are in three feriesi irregularly waved on the edges
r u „nrl few thev are broadeil at their bale, where
g k ™ « « ° a e t a , wSch is inferud in» the .op o .he
s s a a s s a s s s
bloomy powder.
The pileus is deftitute of fleih, from one to two ^ h e s dimeter
at firft convex, the rim contracted and waved, after-
^ r d s becomes irregularly horizontal, at laft M Q
UD becomes lacerated, changes from a purple to a hrowni H
ftraw colour, and at laft falls and diifolves-xn a brown turbid
gelly. -
Grows plentifully in moift, fteep, rocky woods about
c o n t J e s in fucceffion from Auguft to Noycmber.
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