G R O W I N G ABOUT HALIFAX. 67
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AGARICUS Jlipitatus, pileo convexo pallide luteo, lamellis
trifidis numerous profundis Jiipite folido fragile, velofugaceo.
H A R D AGARIC.
TAB. LXWI. F I G. I.
THE root confifts of a number of fibres iffuing from the
hard compreffed bottom of the item.
The item is round, folid, two inches high, and of a pale
whitiih buff colour.
The curtain is very delicate and tender; it is white, and
breaks and vaniihes in the infancy of the plant.
The gills are extremely numerous, deep, femioval, and regularly
arranged in three feries they are thin, and of a pale
greyiih colour.
The pileus is convex, even, and fmooth at the i-im; the
furface fmooth, of a pale duiky yellow, and feels like vellum y
the fubftance of the whole plant very hard and brittle.
AGARICUS Jlipitatus, pileo convexo vifcido aurtntio, lamellis LXXVir.
luteis, Jiipite nudo. LightJ'oot,, Scot. 1025. - aurentiuu
C H E R R Y AGARIC.
TAB. LXVII. FIG. II.
THE root is hard, compreiTed, ef a browniih colour, and
furniihed with a few fibres.
The item often compreiTed and crooked ; it is hollow, of a.
thin fubftance, eafily fplitting,. of a pale yellow within,, and a
golden or orange colour on the outfide.
The gills are in three feries, remote, of a tender fubftance,.
terminating in a narrow point at the. bafe* and varying in colour
from a pale yellow to an high orange.
The pileus irregularly cone-ihaped or convex, of a brittle
fubftance, glutinous, and when young of a full bright cherry
colour, turning pale as it advances in age.
Grows in dry and barren paftures, frequent,, about Halifax...