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An HISTORY of AGARICS, 6cc. 



Li. AG ARICUS JlipitiJtus, pileo campanidato lacero, lamellis lateraUter 

 fmitarius. fiixuoJh,jVipitefiJhdofo. £/>: /7: 1643. Hudfon Angl: 617 ',28. 



Lightfoot Scot: 1021, 13. 



EGG AGARIC. 



T A B. XLIV. 



npHE root is bulb-ihaped, tapering to an obtufe point below; 

 -^ it is white, emits a few dawny fibres, and is not inclofed 

 in a volva. 



The ftem is cylindrical, fiftular, with a fmall perforation ; 

 it is white, a little dawny, and fix or eight inches high. 



The curtain is white and delicate; breaks, and entirely 

 vaniihes, while the plant is young. 



The gills are very numerous and clofe, broad, deep, and 

 render the pileus heavy ; they are in one feries, being all ex- 

 tended from the rim of the pileus almoft to the centre, but do 

 not adhere to, or even touch, the ftem. They are at firft white, 

 afterwards change to a pale reddifh colour, and at laft dilfolve, 

 with the pileus, in a black inky liquor, which falls from the 

 rim in round drops. 



The pileus is conical, terminating bluntly above, while 

 young of an oblong oval figure; it is from four to fix or eight 

 inches high, and one or two diameter at the bafe ; it is of a 

 brown or fufcous colour at the apex, which colour is loft in a 

 dufky white, at a little diftance below. The furface, in fome 

 fpecimens, is covered with a kind of browniih dawny fcalcs, 

 which are not the fragments of volva, but grow from its fur- 

 face ; while the plant is young thefe fcales do not appear, and 

 fometimes it is at all ages deftitute of them. In decay the pileus 

 lacerates, and the whole diflblves. 



Grows in fand befides grafs-beds, and by-paths, near towns 

 and villages, in September and October. 



