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AGARICUS Jlipitatus, pileo ab initio planiufculo, pojl infundi- CXCIir. 

 bultformi. Stipitc bafin verfus crajjiufculo. Radice fibrofo. cyathoides. 



Agaricus cyathoides. Bulliard. Multiformis. Schcef. P. 9. No. 14. 



CUPPED AGARIC. 



TAB. CXLV. 



THE root is large, covered with a white mouldy down, and 

 emits numerous long, hard, white fibres ; it fupports a Tin- 

 gle plant, but fometimes feveral grow in clofe neighbourhood, 

 and are entangled together by thofe fibres. 



The ftem is folid, confifting of a ftrong bark or rind, filled 

 with a foft, fpongy, white pith; it is of a grayifh white on the 

 outfide, and marked with a kind of fmall longitudinal reticula- 

 tions of a paler colour. 



The gills are arranged in three feries ; white in the firft ftages 

 of the plant, changing afterwards to a pale brown. 



The pileus at firft fmall and horizontal, it increafes greatly in 

 the progrefs of growth, becomes cup-ihaped, and in fome fpeci- 

 mens contracts its margin at one or more places, fo as to form 

 feveral partial cups ; it is nearly deftitute of flefh, is of a plea- 

 umber brown on the furface, Imooth and filky to the touch. 



Grew under an old melon frame, in Mrs. Caygill's Garden, 

 at Sha, near Halifax, in February, 1790. 



