GROWING about HALIFAX. 37 



AGARICUS Jiipitatus, pileo campanidato membranaceo, lamellis XXXVIU. 

 trijidis albidis pellucidis, Jlipite longijjimo pellucido albido. tenuis. 



SLENDER AGARIC. 



TAB. XXXVII. 



npHE root confifts of numerous white dawny fibres, which 

 inlinuate themfelves into the fubftance, or fpread upon 

 the furface, of decaying leaves, flicks, and other vegetable fub- 

 ftances : there is no volva. 



The ftem is equal, fmooth, white, pellucid, the thicknefs 

 of a fmall pack-thread, and fix inches high - x it is extremely 

 tender and brittle, breaks and diffolves on being touched : there 

 is no curtain. 



The gills are few, arranged in three feries, very thin and 

 delicate, white, and of a pellucid watery fubftance. 



The pileus at firft conical, afterwards bell-fhaped, fmooth, 

 pellucid, and of a watery white, except the apex, which is 

 tinged with a pale brownifh moufe-colour; the furface is 

 fmooth and plain till the plant begins to decay ; it then appears 

 ftriated round the rim, and prefently falls and diftblves. 



Grows in the deep, moift, and fhady parts of woods, where 

 the air is ftill and calm j particularly, in a little wood above 

 Lee-Bridge, near the Brook, below Burks-Lane, near Halifax. 

 The fpecimen above defcribed, was gathered there, in the be- 

 ginning of September, 1783. I have feen it in JVoodbaufe- 

 Wood, North-Dean, and feveral other like places. 



