So An HISTORY of AGARICS, 



XXXL AGARICUS Jlipitatus, pileo convexo viridi lamellis fafcis befidis, 

 /•tow? cortina glauco grifeo, Jilpite brevi. 



GREEN POLISHED AGARIC. 



TAB. XXX. 



>TpHE root is hard, firm, obtufc, and covered with numerous 

 grey dawny fibres : there is no volva. 



The ftem is round, hard, firm, iolid, and an inch and a 

 half high; it is of a warm brown, or ferruginous colour, and 

 rather diminishes in thicknefs from the bottom upwards. 



The curtain is of a greyifh pale blue green, on the outfide, 

 and fcems covered with a glaucus duft -, on the infide it is the 

 fame colour as the gills : it abides in fragments on the ftem, 

 and on the rim of the pileus, for a little while after its break- 

 ing. 



The gills are in two feries, not adhering to the ftem ; they 

 are deep, and of a pretty ferruginous brown ; they are numerous, 

 and of a thin pliable fubftance. 



The pileus is at firft egg-fhaped, then becomes hemifpheri- 

 cal, afterwards fpreads out at the verge, and lacerates ; it is 

 two or three inches diameter, and of a beautiful bright blueifh 

 green j at firft it is covered with a glutin, or gummy fluid, which 

 when dry ads like rich varnifh, and gives an excellent fhining 

 gloffy polifh to the furface. In decay the colour fades, and the 

 plant diffolves at the age of eight or ten days. 



Grows under fir trees in the plantations about Fixby-Hall, 

 and elfewhere. It takes root amongft the fallen leaves, juft as 

 the Hydnum aurifcalpum does, on the decaying cones ; I never 

 met with it growing in any other kind of foil. 



