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A G A R I C U S ftipilatus, pileo campmulato obiufo fufco-ftavifcente, lamellts LXXXL
atro-grijeis^ ftipite fiftulofo grifio villofo. Hudjon Angl. 619, 36. Hwfuu
W A T E R Y AGARIC.
T A B . LXXI. FIG. I.
TH E whole plant, while young, is wrapped up in a foft dawny
covering, which breaks and falls off, when the fpecimen has acquired
about half its height; it firft vanifhes on the pileus, abiding
longer on the item, to which it gives a woolly appearance.
' *The ftem is an inch high, fiftular, and of a dufky white.
The gills are in three feries, white at firft, and turning brown in
decay. ~
The pileus is glutinous, bell-(haped, of a pale duiky yellow, ancj
fmooth furface; the whole plant is of a tender, watery, pellucid, fubitäncc
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In 1784, fpecimens of this plant, in an advanced ftate, were
broug ht me, growing on putrid wood, found under the fprinklings of
the ft ream of Elm-Cragg-JVell, at Bell-Bank, near Bingley; and I faw it
in the fame place, in all its ftates, in April, 1788.
Agarics, halved, not fupported on a centralßem.
A G A R I C U S fuijiipitatus, pleo albido levi, lamellis fubfimplicibus LXXXII.
palUdis Jlipite laterali. Hudfon JngL 624, 51. laurdis.
L A T E R A L A G A R I C .
T A B, LXXI. F I G. II.
THIS plant adheres fometimes by the fide of the pileus, fometimes
by a ihort lateral foot-ftalk to decaying branches and trunks of
trees.
The pileus is convex, fmooth, and of a .pale duiky buff colour;
the fize is from one to two inches diameter; the fubftance tough and
The g ills in young plants fimple, in thofe of older growth bifid;
they are numerous, tough, and of a pale browniih buff colour.
The 'figure on plate 71, is an exadt reprefentation of the plant, as
it grew on the decaying ftock of an elm tree, in Auguft, 1779.
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