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CLXXIV. AGARICUS ex uno pede multiplex, pileo defuper ex fpadiceo
fitfco-pallidm. \ jlavefcente,. Mich. Gen.81,jig. 2.
P A L E - B R O W N AGARIC..
T A B. CXXXVI. -
' 1 VHE root is fwollen, fpongy, of a foft grey brown on the
outfide, and white within. ( It ^mits many brown capillary
fibres, and frequently fuilains feveral plants.
The item is five inches high, of a pale brown-grey colour
on the outiide. It coniifts of a bark or rind, half a line in
thicknefs; which is filled with a fpongy or cottony matter, of
a pure white. It is largeft at the bafe, from whence it
diminiihes gradually upwards.
The curtain is white, of a foft downy fubftance, and foon
vaniihes. It originates in a thick foft annulus, which abides
on the Item till the decay of the plant.
The gills are arranged in three feries j they are narrow,
arched, thin, flexible, and white.
The.pileus while young is convex, afterwards nearly flat;
the furface vellumy, but with a few fmall fcales at the fummit,
in fome of the younger plants j the rim defledted; the colour
a pale duiky brown j the fleih is white, foft, and fpongy.
Grows in woods about Halifax, but is rare.
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