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AGARICUS Jtipitatus, pileo hemifphcerico centra fcepe fiiftigiato CXCVII. 

 pallide Jia-vo, petiolo tereti pleno baji crajjiufculo, veloj'agjcio. flavidus. 

 Ag. fiavidus. Schcef. P. 17. No. 30. 



BRIGHT YELLOW AGARIC. 



TAB. CXLIX. 



'"THE root is fmall and hard, emitting black-brown fibres. 



The ftem is two inches high, fmooth, largeft at the bafe, 

 hollow, yellow both within and without, and eafily fplits in 

 yellow finning filaments. 



The curtain is white, extremely light and delicate; it vanilhes 

 in the infancy of the plant, and leaves no mark on the ftem. 



The gills are in three feries, of a narrow oblong figure, thin, 

 and tender; they are at firft white, afterwards yellow, and change 

 at laft to a dufky brown. 



The pileus at firft conical, and covered with a tough flippery 

 glutin ; afterwards becomes convex, but moft frequently with 

 the centre a little elevated; in the progrefs of growth, the margin 

 becomes ftriated, and frequently rent; at laft the whole plant dif- 

 folves in a brown gelly. 



Grows on dunghills, after rain, in June and July. 



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