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LXXIV.
*varias.
AGARICUS fiipitatus, pileo conico obtufo, colore vario cinorio
grifeo five nigro, lamellis trifidis Jilpitefiliforme.
V A R I A B L E
TAB. LXVl.
A G A R
F I G. I.
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T ^ H E root coniiits of an hard tubercle, the iize of a rapefeed;
it is furnilhed with numerous ihort fibres.
The item is cylindrical, fiftular, the thicknefs of a fwallow's
quill, white, but dufky near the root, and three or four
inches high.
The gills are arranged in three feries, and run into a point
at the bafe; the firit feries adhering to the top of,the item by a
fmall claw.
The pileus is generally grey, but fubje£t to great variety in
its colours, being fometimes aih coloured, duiky pale brown,
or of a full footy black.
Grows amongit the grafs in paiture grounds, in Oitober.
LXXV. AGARICUS fiipitatus, pileo conico acuto ruber-fufico, lamellis
eufpidalus. Juk}uß" aKgufiis> fiipite fiftulofo.
P O I N T E D AGARIC.
TAB. LXVI. F I G. II.
' T , lHE root is a round hard tubercle, furniihed with numerous
fibres.
The item cylindrical, fmooth, upright, hard, of a browniih
hue, and four or five inches high j it is- fiitukr, with a very
fmall perforation, and ealily fplits in fine filaments.'
The gills are in three feries, of a pale duiky brown, a thin
pliable fubitance, and pointed at the bafe.
The pileus is acutely cone-ihaped, the rim even and entire,
the furface fmooth, and filky to the touch; of a pretty reddiih
brown, inclining to a cinnamon colour.
Grows in fallowed fields, where the weeds have been burnt,
in woods, or places where charcoal has lately been made.
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