68 AN HISTORY OP AGARICS,
LXXVIII. AGARICUS flipitatus, pileo fubconico- pallide-flava margine
laceratm. lacerato, lamellis trißdis latißmis baß angußis, ßipite fißulojb
contorto.
R E N T AGARIC.
T A B . LXVIII.
n p H E root, as in moft others, confifts of a tuft of ilender
foft fibres, iiTuing from the bottom of thè item.
The item is as thick as one's little finger, of a pale clay
colour ; the fubilance is thin, and readily fplits in ilender fibres ;
it is often compreffed, fulcated, or twifted, and is three or four
inches high.
The gills are irregularly arranged, fometimes there are three
feries, fometimes only two ; they are extremely broad towards
the external extremity, and run out into a narrow point at the
bafe ; they are a little waved at the edges, of a tender foft fubilance,
and a pale, greeniih, yellow hue, or primrofe colour ;
prefled between the fingers they turn to a ilippery gelly, of no
unpleafant fmell.
The pileus is obtufely cone-ihaped ; the furface a pale
yellow, dry, fmooth, filky, and Ìhining ; when at maturity it
fplits or lacerates, the rents reaching almoft to the centre,
the divifions rifing up at the rim, and abiding for fome days in
an horizontal pofition ; it is deftitute of fleih, and diifolves in
decay.
Grows on dry banks and in barren paftures about Halifax,
but rarely.
Though this plant is fometimes deficient in the third feries
of gills, it will neverthelefs arrange with thofe of three feries,
becaufe it is found with three more frequently than with only
two ; every fpecimen having more or fewer of a third feries in
it, and fometimes all three compleat.
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