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AGARICUS Jlipitatus, piko convexo lutefcente irrorato, lamcllis CLXXXIX. 

 ■pallidis, Jlipitibus annularis, farftis. Flo. Dan. Fas 17, P. melkus. 

 9. Agaricus obfcurus. Schcef. P. 32, No. 65. 



HONEY'D AGARIC. 



TAB. CXLI. 



THE root is large, and of a dark brown; the plant fome- 

 timcs folitary, fometimes a number grow together, adhering 

 by their numerous brown fibres. 



The ftem is folid, fpongy, largeft, and darken: coloured near 

 the bafe ; it is fometimes a little fcaley. 



The curtain is white, thick, woolly, tough, and abiding; fepa- 

 rates from the rim of the pileus without tearing ; contracts and 

 abides on the ftem like a little thick ruffle. 



The gills are in three feries, arched, at firfl white, changing 

 brown with age ; they adhere, by a broad bafe, to the top of the 

 ftem. 



The pileus is at firft convex, in time becomes flat, at Ian: 

 funnel-fhaped, and lacerates in decay ; it is of a dufky cinnamon 

 brown colour, growing darker with age. The furface, more or 

 lefs, covered with little tufts or fcales of a colour ftill darker; 

 and while young, efpecially in moifl weather, covered with a 

 glutin, which looks like a honey dew. 



This fpecies came up, abundantly, in the wood called Sbroggs, 

 near Halifax, A.D. 1790. 



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