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AGARICUS ftpitatus, piieo fulminato ca>ruleo-viriJit lamellis• ; cxeifufcis,
Jlipite lorigoivirefcente. cyaneus,
G L A U C O U S AGARIC.
T A B. CXLiXL
q-^HE root is hard, and fumiihed witWa few ftrong, hard,
X white fibres ; it produces fometimes one plant, Jfomctimes "
feveraL
The ilem is three or four inches high, cylindrical, upright, of
a pale glaucous blue green, and. near the bottom is ihagged "with
lOofe cottony films of a paler colour.- Thefe filmy fubftances are
the remains of a curtain, which break when the plapt is.young,
and abide in fragments, both here, and alio around the rim of
the pileusv
Thè gills are in three feries, of a duiky colour, inclining a
little to red ; the' firit feries'adhering, : by the bale, to the top of
the (lem, are broadeft in the middle, rendering the lower furface
of the pilcus' prominent.
The pileus is cuiliion-ihaped, $ut with a gentle.elevation in
the centre j itPs of a bright glaucous blue green, and covered
with a flippery glutin j when old, the: colour changes to a dirty
brown.
It isla ràre fpecies. Grew in Mr. POLLARD'S Garden, at
Stannary, November th? x ath, 1790.