36 An HISTORY of AGARICS, 



XXXVI. AGARICUS fipitatus, pileo convexo, lameUis trijidis profundi*, 

 ™beus. jlipite longa, tot a plant a ruherrimo. 



RED AGARIC. 



TAB. XXXVI. 



'HPHE root confirvs of a great number of fhort dawny fibres, 

 connected to the bottom of the ftem : it is not furrounded 

 by a volva. 



The fiem is hard, folid, generally curved or bent; it is 

 fwollen near the bottom, elfewhere equal, and about the thick- 

 nefs of a goofe-quill; ic is four or five inches high, and of a 

 ftrong bright red, as are all the other parts of the plant : there 

 is no curtain. 



The gills are in three feries, deep, regularly and beautifully 

 arranged j they are thin, tranfparent, and, when feen between 

 the eye and the light, are of a bright and glowing ruby colour. 



The pileus is an inch and a half in diameter, opaque, and 

 of a fine dark red ; it feels cottony to the touch, but there is no 

 perceptible dawn. 



This Agaric I faw growing in feveral places in a little range 

 of wood, belonging to Sbib den-Hall, near Halifax, October 29, 

 1786; where I gathered the five fpecimens which are exactly 

 figured on plate 36. — I never met with it elfewhere. 



