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AGARICUS Jlipitatus, pileo palliado Jlriato contorts), lame/Us XLVI. 

 rugojis, Jlipite arcuata. «fp- 



TURF AGARIC. 



TAB. XLI. F I C. C. 



THE root is round, hard, and black ; emitting mort fibres 

 of the fame colour : there is no volva. — The ftem is an 

 inch long, bended or bowed ; it grows from the perpendicular 

 fides of the pits where peat has been dug. — The gills are very 

 remote, much diftorted and crumpled. — The pileus an inch in 

 diameter, filiated, pellucid, much diftorted, and of a yellovviih 

 clay colour. 



AGARICUS Jlipitatus, pileo fufco Jlriato undulato, lameUis 



carneis, Jlipite brevi. 



CRUMPLED AGARIC. 



TAB. XLI. FIG, A. 



THE root is fmall, black, and fibrous. — The ftem a quarter 

 of an inch high, of a dufky flefh colour ; as are alio the 

 gills. — The pileus is of a dark reddifti brown, marked with a 

 fewjlria; it is convex at firft, afterwards becomes horizontal, 

 or funnel-fhaped ; the margin lobed, crumpled, and diftorted 



in various directions. Grows in rich garden- mould, about 



the roots of fuch plants and fhrubs as afford much fhade. 



XLVIl. 

 tort His. 



AGARICUS Jlipitatus, pileo hemifpharico purpurea, lamellis XLVlll. 

 trijidis albis, Jlipite pur pur eo. purpuras, 



PURPLE AGARIC. 



TAB. XLI. FIG. B. 



'Hp'HE root is a round, hard tubercle, furnifhed with brown 

 ■*• fhort fibres. — The ftem fiftular, an inch high, and of a 

 livid purple. — The gills deep, arranged in three feries, and 

 white. — The pileus more than half an inch in diameter; while 

 young hemiipherical, of a livid purple, and a little clammy ; 



afterwards horizontal, and of a pale brown. Grows under 



clofe plantations of fir, about Halifax, in July, plentifully. 



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