GROWING about HALIFAX. 31 



AGARICUS Jiipitatus, pileo campanulato jlriato pellucido, XXXII. 

 lamellis adfcendentibus , Jiipite nudo. Sp: Pi: 1643. Hud- campanulatus. 

 fon Angl: 618, 31. 



BELL AGARIC. 



TAB. XXXI. 



/ "T" V HE root is a little brown bulb, emitting brown fibres from 

 ■*■ its bottom and fides. 



The ftem is cylindrical, fiftular, tranfparent, of a whitifh 

 grey colour, the thicknefs of a fwallow's quill, and five or fix 

 inches high. 



The curtain is very delicate, vanifhes when the plant is 

 about an inch high, but leaves a black veftage on the flem* 

 which abides for a little time, and then difappears. 



The gills are in two feries, narrow, thin, tranfparent, and 

 of a grey colour, changing black in decay. 



The pileus is atfirft conical, fmooth, and brown, afterwards 

 the rim begins to diverge, and to appear dimly ftriated, with 

 fine tender lines •; the next ftage a black ciliation begins to ap- 

 pear round the rim, and as it advances in growth the pileus 

 expands, and what before appeared to be ftria, are now found 

 to be adtual plaits, the angles whereof are alternately brown 

 and lead-coloured ; the black ciliation is divided into little tufts, , 

 which adhere to the extremities of the brown angles, and give 

 a pretty appearance to the rim of the pileus. It is about an 

 inch and a half in diameter, of a tender watery fubflance, and 

 femi-tranfparent ; in decay it dhTolves in a brown liquor. It 

 grows up in one night, and perifhes the next day. 



Grows in meadows where the foil is rich, in September and. 

 Oftober, about Halifax plentifully. 



