GROWING about HALIFAX. 35 



AGARICUS Jiipitatus, fileo conico, margine undulato flriato, XXX VI. 

 lamellis trifdis aurnticarneis, Jlipite Jijfa longa minute jlriat a. ff"s- 



SPLIT-STALKED AGARIC. 



TAB. XXXV. 



' I % HE root is a round, hard tubercle, of a brown colour, 

 furniihed with numerous fhort dawny fibres ; and is not 

 furrounded by a volva. 



The flem is the thicknefs of a gdofe-quill, and four or five 

 inches high ; it is fiftular, and moft commonly flat or com- 

 prefled. It appears to be of a pale grey colour, but on being 

 clofely examined, is found to be neatly flriped with fine longi- 

 tudinal ftripes, alternately, of a moufe-colour and a filky 

 white, arid'as fine almoif. as hairs. It is further remarkable in 

 this, that when the plant is arrived to its perfect ftate, it fre- 

 quently fplits from top to bottom, the two halves rolling their 

 edges together, and forming each an hollow tube; after which 

 it abides for feveral days, and appears as if the pileus was f up- 

 ported upon two flems : there is no curtain. 



The gills are arranged in three feries, deep, numerous, thin, 

 flexible ; and of a colour between carnation and orange. 



The pileus from one to two inches in diameter, flriated near 

 the margin, where it is of a dufky kind of olive colour, but 

 brown at the apex. 



Grows in the S/jroggs, the Burks, the North-Dean, and 

 feveral other woods about Halifax, as I have obferved this year 

 1787. 



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