APPENDIX. 155 



AGARICUS Jiipitatus, pileo convexo albo, Limellis trifdis albidis, CCIII. 

 Jiipite gracili bafi cmjjiufculo fubrubro. alumnus. 



FOSTERED AGARIC. 



TAB. CLV. 



THE root is inferted into the fubftance on which it grows, 

 without vifible fibres. 



The ftem is white, and (lender towards the top, near the bafe 

 it is fuelled, and fometimes tinged very gently with red. 



The gills are arranged in three feries ; they are few, broad in 

 proportion to the fize of the plant, and loofe at the bafe, not ad- 

 hering to the flemj they are white, and of a foft downy fub- 

 ftance. 



The pileus is convex ; in fome fpecimens the fummit a little 

 raifed ; it is white and deftitute of flefh. The fpecimens before 

 me grew on old plants of the Agaricus integer, in a ftate of utter 

 decay, when turned black and quite rotten. 



Grows in Woodboufe-Wood, but is rare there. 



This fpecies is nearly related to the Agaricus tuberofus of 

 Bulliard, PI. 256. but I can difcover no downy circle near the 

 bafe of the ftem, and the tubrous root is wanting. 



