GROWING about HALIFAX. 



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AGARICUS Jiipitatus, pileo hemifpheerico plamofo murino, XXXIV. 

 lamellis trifidis albidis Jlipite longo plumofo. phmo/us. 



FEATHERED AGARIC. 



TAB. XXXIII. 



npHE root is round, hard, the fize of a pea, of a brownifh 

 black colour, and emitting a few long hard fibres : it is 

 not furrounded by a volva. 



The flem is hard, folid, cylindrical, often bended or waved, 

 the thicknefs of a duck's quill, and about four inches high ; it 

 is clofely covered with fmall dawny or feathery tufts, of a per- 

 fect moufe-colour : there is no curtain. 



The gills are in three feries, deep, and terminate in a claw 

 at the bafe, which juft touches the top of the flem ; they are 

 numerous, foft, flexible, white, and of a dry light fubflance. 



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

 of a perfect moufe-colour, and, like the ftem, thickly covered 

 with little tufts of a dawny matter, which grow from its fur- 

 face, and are of the fame colour with it ; there is a beautiful 

 fringe, of the fame dawn, all round its margin. The fub- 

 flance is thin, light, dry, and flexible: it withers in decay. 



This curious and beautiful Agaric, I gathered in a little 

 fleep wood, belonging to the farm called Ram/den, in the 

 townfhip of Ovenden, near Halifax, Augufl, 1787 ; it grew in 

 plenty there. 



