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G R O W I N G ABOUT HALIFAX. 65
AGARICUS Jlipitatus, pileo pallida, difcoJhllatini lúteo, lamellis LXXIII.
fulphureis. Sp. PI. 1642, 13. t^jirit.
S T A R R Y AGARIC.
T A B . LXV.
THE root is hard, brown, and globular; furniihed with a
multitude of brown capillary fibres ; it fuitains one plant
only.
The item is upright, fmooth, cylindrical, fiilular, and four
inches high; the fubftance thin, delicate, and eaiily fplits in
ílender ihining fibres or filaments; there is a fibrous or dawny
matter in the perforation; the colour is a pale duiky yellow.
The o-ills regularly arranged in three feries, of a femioval
ihape, pointed at both extremities, and do not adhere to the
item; they are numerous, thin, pliable, delicate, and of a pale
yellow with a tinge of green; fulphur coloured.
The pileus is at firit of an oval ihape, afterwards convex j
fometimes the apex projefting in form of a blunt point; the
colour is a pale kind of yellowiih, with a cait of buff, the apex
a little darker:—when the plant is young the pileus is ileightly
glutinous, afterwards becomes dry and is fmooth ; in decay the
rim changes to a duiky hue, which hue gradually ihoots towards
the middle in concentric points, forming the appearance
of a yellow fiar, of ten or twelve rays, in the centre; at
lait the whole becomes duiky, and falls and difiolves, in about
the fpace of two days from its firit appearance.
Grows in meadows and pafiure grounds about Halifax, in
July and Auguil.
This, plant feems nearly related to the'^i. clypeatus, and may
pofiibly be a variety of it.
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