A P P E N D I X. 155
AGARICUS ßipitatus, pileó còhvexo albo, lamellis trißdis albidis, . OCITI.
. ß i f ite gracili baß crajfiufculo fubrubro* alubmus.
F O S T E R E D AGARIC.
T A B. CLV.
' - p H E root is inferted into the iubftance on which it grows,
«p- without vifible fibres.
The item is white, and ilender towards the top, near the bate
it is fwelled, and fomctimcs tinged very gently, with red.
The gills are arranged in "three feries ; they are few, broad in
proportion to the fize of the plant, and loofe at the bafe, not ad|^?
hering io the ftem ; they are white, and of a foft downy fubftance.
The pileus is convex ; in fome fpecimcns the fummit a little
•raifed ; it is white and deftitute of fleih. ' The fpécimens before
me grew on old plants bf;|the Agaricus integer, in a ftate of utter
decay, when turned black and quite rotten.
Grows in Woodhouße-Wood, but is rare there.
This fpeciesffisì nearly related , to the Agaricus tuberofuS' of
Bulliard, PÌ. 256. but I can difcover no downy circle near the
bafe of the ftem, and the tubrous root is wanting.
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