AN HISTORY OF AGARICS,
LXXX. AGARICUS Jiipitatus, pileo globofo cajlaneo, margihe lobata innuceis.
curvo, Ittmellis trijidis undulatis, Jiipite gracile albo JiJiulofo.
H A S L E - N U T AGARIC.
T A B . LXX.
root is an hard tubercle, furniihed with fibres of a
mouldy grey colour.
The ftem is upright, fiftular, of a pale dead white, and
about the thicknefs of a crow's quill near the 'root, growing
gradually fmaller upwards j the height is about four inches;
the fubftance thin, tender, and ealily fplitting in fmall ihining
filaments. -
The gills are arranged in three feries; they are broad and
thin, gently waved on the edges, and touch not the ftem with
their bafe; the fubftance is thin and delicate, and the colour a
pale pretty brown.
The pileus the fize and colour of a Spaniih haile-nut; the
top umbilicated, the margin lobed and very much rolled in, fo
as to touch the ftem, or even to pafs by it; the oppofite lobes
preffing againft, or lying over each other. It is deftitute of
fleih, of a dry pliable fubftance, and a fmooth, dry, filky,
ihining furface.
This fpecies came up in abundance, amongft the young fir
trees in the new plantation near Mount Pellon, in Odlober,
1787; I have feen it in other places, in dry and barren foils,
amongft heath and furze buihes.