136 APPENDIX. 



CLXXIV. AGARICUS ex uno pede multiplex, pileo defuper ex Jpadiceo  

 fu/co-pallidus. flavefcente. Mich. Gen. t. 81, Jig. 2. 



PALE-BROWN AGARIC. 



TAB. CXXXVI. 



HpHE root is fwollen, fpongy, of a foft grey brown on the 

 -*■ outfide, and white within. It emits many brown capil- 

 lary fibres, and frequently fuftains feveral plants. 



The item is five inches high, of a pale brown-grey colour 

 on the outfide. It confifts 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 larger! at the bafe, from whence it 

 diminifhes gradually upwards. 



The curtain is white, of a loft downy fubftance, and foon 

 vanifhes. It originates in a thick foft annulus, which abides 

 on the ftem till the decay of the plant. 



The gills are arranged in three feries ; 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; the rim deflected; the colour 

 a pale dufky brown ; the flelh is white, foft, and fpongy. 



Grows in woods about Halifax, but is rare. 



