42 An HISTORY of AGARICS, 



XLIX. AGARIC US f.ipitatus, pileo villofo fulvo, lame/h's trifidis 

 villifut. lencophteus, cortina alba, Jlipite adfcendente, an picromyces 



tunicatus. Battar: p. 47, 'tab. 8, Fig. H. Sive, Agaricus 



mutabUis. Hudfon Angl: 615, 22. 



SHAGGY AGARIC. 



TAB. XLII. 



'"T^HE root confifts of a mouldy grey dawn, adhering to the 

 -*■ bottom of the ftem; it is not furrounded by a volva. 



The ftem is of an hard dry brittle fubftance, of a duiky 

 white, inclining a little to a pale buff colour; it grows at firft 

 horizontally, and then curving upwards, is five or fix inches 

 long, and diftinguifhed by a thick dawny atif?u/us, which fur- 

 rounds it near the top, and in which the curtain originates. 



The curtain is wite, fine as a fpider's web, lacerates, and 

 hangs for fome time, in white dawny fragments, round the rim 

 of the pileus. 



The gills are arranged in three feries, they are arched nume- 

 rous, narrow, and of a pale greyifli afh colour. 



The pileus is at firft round or globular, afterwards becomes 

 hemifpherical, and three inches in diameter ; it is covered with 

 a pile or nap, of a dawny, or rather hairy matter, and of a 

 fulvous brown, or fox-colour. The flefli of the pileus is white 

 and brittle ; in decay it lacerates and diffolves. 



Grows under the roots of trees, in woods where the foil is 

 dry. I faw it in great plenty, in October, 17S6, in the dry 

 and fteep part of the wood called Ramfden, it grew, not only 

 from under the roots of trees, but from the fides of breaks, 

 and from under the rocks ; the item being hidden, and hori- 

 zontal ; and the pileus with only juft the curved part of the 

 ftem appearing. 



