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Uns! 64 AN HISTORY OF AGARICS,
LXXll. AGARICUS Jlipitatus, pileo convexiufculo cameo fufco, lamellis
farînaceus. convéxis dijiantibus incarnatis pulverulentis, Jiipite longo.
Hudfon Angl. 616, 26.
P O W D E R E D A G A R I C .
T A B . LXIV.
'npHE root is comprefled, irregular, a little thicker than the
A ftem; it is of a dark brown colour, hard, and firm,
emitting mouldy grey fibres.
The ftem is crooked, fmalleft in the middle, fiftular, with
a fmall perforation, eaiily fplits in filaments, is of a fordid
browniih fleih colour, and three or four inches high.
The gills in three feries, few, grofs, and brittle; the firft
feries about twenty in number; they are crumpled or waved on
the edges, of a browniih duiky fleih colour, and, together with
the ftem, are covered with a mealy powder, of a pale greyilh,
fleih colour.
The pileus is convex, when full grown an inch and half in
diameter, the rim gently waved; it is, like the other parts, of
a browniih fleih colour, but not powdered; the furface is foft
and feels to the touch like fine woollen cloth wetted; the fubftance
is thin, waiery, and pellucid; the whole falls and rots
of a dirty brown colour.
It is not a. common plant here. The fpecimen. before me, I
gathered in Old-Lane-Wood, near Halifax, I have alfo feen it
in Woodhoufe-Woodx and in the plantations about Fixby-Hall.
In number and figure this plant very much refembles the
A. amethyjiinus; I can find no. character of diftindaon between
them, except colour, and am therefore inclined to think,, that
this is no more than a variety of it;, but as feveral authors.
have confidered it as a diftind fpecies, I have taken the liberty
to give it a place in this Hiftory.
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