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AGARICUS jlipitatus, fafciculofus pileo planiufcuh fufoo, Jlipite 

 nudo tenerrime villofo fuligonojb. Relhan, Flor. No. 942, 

 456. Vaill. Paris, t. 12, fig. 8, 9. 



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VELVET-STALKED AGARIC. 



TAB. CXXXV. 



HE root is 4>lack and hard; it is furnifhed with black 

 fibres, and fuftains feveral plants. 



The ftem is firm, folid, the thicknefs of a fwan's quill, 

 often crooked or bent, and two inches high. It is white 

 within, but on the outfide of a very dark chocolate brown, 

 inclining to black ; and is covered with a very fhort velvety 

 down. 



The gills are in three feries, few, very broad and large, 

 pellucid, tough, and of a yellow colour. Thole of the firft 

 feries not adhering to the ftem, but rounded oif at the bafe. 



The pileus is cufhioned, glutinous ; the rim deflected and 

 acute. The colour about the centre a ftrong orange brown, 

 changing to a dufky gold colour ; at the margin, in decay, it 

 turns black, and diffolves. 



The fpecimens here figured and defcribed, grew on the 

 flumps of fallen trees in Southowram, in February, 1789. 



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