APPENDIX. 147 



AGARICUSy?//) //#/».(•, pileo convexo-fufcefcente, lamellis ccerulef- CXCV. 

 centibus, Jlipite brevi baji bu/bofo, inoluceo. Agancus nudus. bulbof-.a, 

 Bulliard, 439. Caerulefcens. Schcef. P. 17. No. 29. 



BULBOUS AGARIC. 



TAB. CXLVH. 



THE root is bulb-fhaped, of a pale violet colour about the 

 upper part, brownifh at the bafe, where it emits fhort 

 fibres ; it is deftitue of volva. 



The ftem two inches high, of a pale violet colour, and a foft 

 clothy furface ; within it is white, and of a brittle fubftance j 

 while young folid, in decay becomes fiftular, and at laft diflblves. 



The gills are in three feries, thin, pliable, numerous ; while 

 frefh of a pale violet colour, which in decay vanifhes, and leaves 

 them of a dufky hue. 



The pileus is fmooth, feels like fine vellum, is convex and 

 deflected round the margin, which is remarkably fmooth and en- 

 tire ; whde young it is clouded with violet colour j when old 

 changes to a dufky brown, and diffolves. 



It is a rare fpecies. The fpecimens here defcribed, I gathered 

 in Ovenden, in a little wood above Old^Lane-Mill, in October, 

 1790. 



