GROWING about HALIFAX. 27 



AGARICUS Jlipitatus, lamellis dimidieatis folitariis, Jlipite XXVIII. 

 volvato, apice dilitato, bafe ovato. Sp: PI: 1640, 4. mufcarius 



Agarkus canlefcens pileo fanguineo verrucis, lamellifque albis, 

 Jlipite albo bafi globofo. Flo: Lapp: 595. Hudjbn Angl: 

 612. Light] oot Fl: Scot: 1010, 3. 



FLY AGARIC. 



TAB. XXVII. 



npHE root is large, and bulb-fhaped, of a foft fpongy fub- 

 A ftance, and together with the young plant furrounded by 

 a thick volva, when the item begins to moot, the volva breaks, 

 and the pileus appears ; as it advances in growth, the bulb at 

 the root diminimes in fize, and is often nearly exhaufted in full 

 grown plants 



The item is white, brown, or reddifh ; foft, fpongy, and, 

 while the plant is young, folid ; afterwards becomes fiftular, 

 the thicknefs of one's thumb, and four or five inches high. 



The curtain, after it has performed its office, is feparated 

 from the pileus all round the rim, without being torn, and re- 

 mains for fome time on the Item, like an elegant white ruffle. 



The gills are in two feries, moft of them extended from the 

 item to the rim of the pileus, but are interfperfed with others 

 extending but half way j they are white. 



The pileus, at its firft eruption from the volva, is of a 

 globular figure, fmooth and mining, with a flippery glutin j 

 when full grown becomes horizontal, and the furface nearly 

 flat ; it is of various colours, but generally tinged, more or 

 lei's, with red. In dry feafons, or improper foils, the volva 

 does not feparate from the pileus, but remains in broken frag- 

 ments, like warts, upon its fuface. 



Grows in dry woods about Halifax, from Auguft to Oclober. 



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