GROWING about HALIFAX. 



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AG ARICUS flipitatus, pileo plicato membranaceo, lamellis baft latioribus. 

 Sp: PI: 1643. Lightfoety Scot: 1026, 18. Hudfon, Angl: 261, 24. 



UMBRELLA AGARIC. 



TAB. XXXIX. FIG. A. 



THE Root confifts of dawny fibres, adhering to decayed leaves, &c. 

 — The Item an inch high, very feeble and delicate; of a pellucid 

 watery fubftance. — The gills in one feries, very delicate, broadeft at 

 the bafe, and white. — The pileus the fize of an hemp-feed, white, and 

 gently ftriated. Grows in damp woods common about Halifax. 



AGARICUS flipitatus, pileo luteo convexo ftriato, lamellis Jlipitaque 

 albis. Sp: PI: 1644, Hudfon Angl: 622, 45. Lightfoot, Scot: 

 1027, 20. 



PIN AGARIC. 



TAB. XXXIX. FIG. B. 



IT grows in fimilar places with the lalt, and is about the fame fize, 

 but of a firmer fubftance. The colour of the pileus is a brownifh 

 yellow, fometimes orange-coloured, or of a bright fcarlet ; of a dry 

 opaque fubftance, and generally contracted round the rim ; in decay it 

 withers, and abides for Tome days in a dry ftate. 



AGARICUS flipitatus, pileo bemifpb.-crico, lamellis Jlipitaque albis. 



Hudfon Ang; 620, 39, 

 WHITE AGARIC. 



TAB. XXXIX. FIG. D. 



THE root confifts of dawny fibres, by which it adheres to the fallen 

 and decaying ftalks of plants.— The ftem half an inch in length, 

 loft flexible and of a dead white colour. — The gills white, dry, and 

 flexible; — The pileus of a dead white, at firft cqnical, afterward nearly 

 horizontal, but inflected at the rim. It withers in decay, and abides 

 for a long time. — They often grow many near together, on the fame 



'ftick, but have feparate roots. Grows in Wood-boufe-JVcod, but is 



rare there. 



AGARICUS flipitatus, pileo radiato plicato, Jlipite pellucido filiformia. 

 WHEEL AGARIC. 



TAB. XXXIX. FIG. C. 



THE root white, dawny.— -The ftem an inch and a half high, watery, 

 pellucid, extremely brittle and tender. — The pileus at its firft 

 appearance conical, and of a red brown colour ; is in a ftate of per- 

 fection in the fpace of two or three hours, when it becomes of a blackifh 

 afh colour, and pellucid. It confifts of two membranes, plaited to- 

 gether like a fan ; the angles of the plaits a little fubtend beyond the 



margin. — It appears like a fmall wheel, with fpokes. Grows on 



horle-dung, after rain, in the month of Auguft. 



XLI. 



umbelliferus. 



XLII. 



(lav us. 



xliil 



Candidas. 



XLIV. 



r ad i at us. 



