GROWING about HALIFAX. 



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AGARICUS flipitatus, pilao convexo luteo, lamellis virefcentibus, XXX. 

 Jlipitefavo. Hudfon Angl: 615, 20. Fungus mediae \viag- fafchularis. 

 nitudinis pileolo fuperne rajo favicante, lamellis fubtis for aide 

 viniitibus Rait: Syn: 10, 57. 



BUNDLED AGARIC. 



TAB. XXIX. 



*~T" S HE root is a mifhapen piece of fungous matter, large in 

 -*~ proportion to the number of plants it fuftains, emits a few 

 fibres, is of tough fubftance, destitute of volva, and fuftains. 

 numerous plants, from three to fifteen. 



The ftem curved, growing at firft horizontally, and then 

 riling gradually upwards j it is about the thicknefs of a fwan's- 

 quill, fiftular and three inches high; it is of a duiky yellow 

 colour, with a tinge of green, and thinly covered with a dawny 

 kind of filaments* 



The curtain is of a pale yellow, flcnder and delicate as the 

 fineft fpider's web: found only when the plant is juft fprung 

 up, breaks, and vanilhes when the verge of the pileus begins 

 to unfold. 



The gills are extremely thin and numerous, they are narrow 

 of a fof: pliable fubftance, and greenifh olive colour ; they ad- 

 here lightly to the ftem by a narrow claw. 



The pileus from one to two inches diameter, fmooth, of a 

 pale yellow, near the margin, growing ftronger near the top, 

 where it is of an orange or fcarlet colour ; the top or central 

 elevation, is not always in the middle, but bears to one fide, 

 which gives the pileus the figure of a nipple fhell. In decay 

 the whole changes to a dirty brown, and diflblves in the fpace 

 of five or fix days from its firft fpringing up; 



Grows on putrid wood, or on the ground amongft timber. 

 in wood-yards, or near the roots of trees, about Halifax, in 

 Auguft and September, plentifully. 



