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AGARICUS Jlipitatus, pileo convexo acuminato grifeo, lamellis Z-XXIX.
convexis griféis crenatisftipite nudo. Sp. PI. 1642, 15. mammo/uu
B R E A S T A G A R I C.
T A B . LXIX.
' T * H E root confiits of black hard fibres, iifuing from the ob-
- 1 tufe bafe of the item; it is folitary, and fuitains one plant
only.
The item is upright, round, hard, firm, and folid ¡ of a grey
brown above, paler near the root; half an in¿h in diameter,
and four or five inches high j the fubitance within is white,
and ealily fplits in fine ilender filaments.
The gills are arranged in three feries, very broad, of a pel-*
lucid fubitance,. and a pale duiky grey, with a tinge of fleih
colour : their figure approaches to a femicircje, the bafe not
touching the item; they are waved on the edges near the extremity
; near the bafe they are crenated. In the fpecimen'before
me, there is one manifeft dent or tooth towards the bafe, in
thofe of the firít feries •, in chofe of the fecond and third no
dent or tooth, but only a gentle waving.
The Pileus is convex, terminating in a nipple-like beak or
point at top i the colour is conitantly of a duiky grey, with a
tinge of reddiih brown; and the furface looks and feels like
fine woollen cloth: it is about three inches diameter in a full
grown plant, and is deititute of fleih, except juit under the
beaked top where the item is inferted; it diifolves in decay.
This fpecimen grew in Bracken-Bed-Wood, near Halifax,
September 1, 1787.
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