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AGARICUS Jlipitatus, pileo fufco crajfo margine undidato rimofo, L. 

 lamellis bifidis crafts pallidis, Jlipitc longo fufco incequale. rigidus. 



RIGID AGARIC. 



TAB. XLIIL 



'-pHE root confifts of a number of fhort brown fibres iffulng 

 from the bottom of the ftem ; there is no volva. 



The flem is generally curved or bent, it is five or fix inches 

 in length, terminating in a kind of obtufe point below, or ra- 

 ther appears as if the point was bitten off; upwards it increafes 

 in thicknefs for about half its length, and decreafes again to the 

 top ; it is an inch or more in diameter, in the thickeft part ; 

 while the plant is young it is folid, afterwards becomes fiftular, 

 in both ftates is of a brown grey colour, and of an hard, dry, 

 brittle fubflance : there is no curtain. 



The gills are in two feries, few, narrow, of a very pale 

 yellow, rigid, brittle, and very much crumpled and undulated, 

 by reafon of the rolling in, or inflection of the pileus. 



The pileus is at firft round, afterwards becomes bluntly 

 cone-fhaped ; while young the margin is much inflected round 

 the rim, lb as to embrace the ftalk ; in the next ftage of growth . 

 it is much undulated or crumpled round the margin ; at laft it 

 fplits in feveral places, falls and diffolves. Its colour is a dufky 

 reddifh brown, from firft to laft; the fubftance of the flefh 

 thick, brittle, dry, and white. 



Grows in the plantations and wood grounds, about Ftxby- 

 Hall, in July and Auguft, I have not feen it elfewhere. 



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