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AGARICUS Jiipitatus, pilco pulvinato cceruleo-viridi, lamcU'is CXCI. 

 fufcis, Jiipite longo virefcente. cyanem. 



GLAUCOUS AGARIC. 



TAB. CXLIII. 



THE root is hard, and furnifhed with a few ftrong, hard, 

 white fibres ; it produces fometimes one plant, fometimes 

 feveral. 



The ftem is three or four inches high, cylindrical, upright, of 

 a pale glaucous blue green, and near the bottom is magged with 

 loole cottony films of a paler colour. Thefe filmy fubftances are 

 the remains of a curtain, which break when the plant is young, 

 and abide in fragments, both here, and alfo around the rim of 

 the pileus. 



The gills are in three feries, of a dufky colour, inclining a 

 little to red ; the firft feries adhering, by the bafe, to the top of 

 the ftem, are broadeft in the middle, rendering the lower furface 

 of the pileus prominent. 



The pileus is cufhion-fhaped, but with a gentle elevation in 

 the centre ; it is of a bright glaucous blue green, and covered 

 with a flippery glutinj when old, the colour changes to a dirty 

 brown. 



It is a rare fpecies. Grew in Mr. Pollard's Garden, at 

 Stannary, November the 12th, 1790. 



