i 4 a APPENDIX. 



CXC. AGARICUS Jiipitatus, fileo ab initio albo tomentofo, pojl Jiriato 

 ihkaus. pulverc rubro obduclo lucerato. Lamcllis integris numerofis 



atris ; Jlipitihus fftulofus a/bus, velo albo permenere. Fungus 

 flerquilinus ex albo grifcus. Mich. Gen. P. i 8 1 . 



PLEASING AGARIC. 



TAB. CXLII. 



'"TpHE root is fwelled, and emits white downy fibres. 



The ftem is white, of a foft filky furface, and eafily fplits in 

 fhining white filaments ; it is hollow, but with a foft iilky down 

 in the perforation, 



The curtain is white, foft, downy, and feparates from the rim 

 of the pileus ; when the ftem has attained but a fmall part of its 

 height; it is permanent, abiding near the bottom of the ftem,' till 

 the decay of the plant. 



The gills are, while the plant is young, covered with a car- 

 nation-coloured powder, changing black in decay, rolling up- 

 wards, and diflblving in a black turbid gelly. 



The pileus at firft covered with a white downy epidermis „ 

 which foon difappears, and the furface becomes ftriated, and of 

 a foft, downy, livid, carnation colour; which colour, both in 

 the young and old plants, confifts of a foft powder, which at 

 laft changes black and diffolves. 



Grows on new dunghills ; but is rare about Halifax. 



