26 An HISTORY of AGARICS, 



XXVII. AG ARICUS Jlipitltatus, pileo conico, fubfufco lacerato fquamofo, 

 iamefiicus. lamellis integris grifeo pallidis, Jiipitefjlalofo albido. 



DOMESTIC AGARIC. 



TAB. XXVI. 



'TpHE root confifts of a great number of dawny grey fibres^ 

 fome of which infinuate themfelves into the fubftance of 

 the putrid wood, whereon it grows ; the reft creep like mouldi- 

 nefs upon its furface. The plants moft commonly grow in 

 bundles from the fame root. 



The item is white, and mines with a filky glofs ; it is fiftu- 

 lar, of a thin light fubftance, the thicknefs of a goofe-quill, 

 and three or four inches high ; it eafily divides in white glitter- 

 ing filaments, and often abides after the pileus is fallen. 



The curtain is extremely delicate, and vanifhes as foon as 

 the rim of the pileus begins to feparate from the ftem. 



The gills are in one feries, numerous, broad, and deep ; at 

 iirft of a pale grey colour, but in decay difTolve in a black inky 

 liquor. 



The pileus is at firft of an oval figure, and wrapped up in a 

 volva which is peculiar to itfelf, and does not inwrap the root. 

 The volva is of a cottony fubftance, and a very pale grey brown 

 colour ; as the pileus increafes in bignefs it burfts in fragments, 

 and remains like warts on the furface. From an oval, the 

 pileus changes to a conical figure; the margin undulated, next 

 becomes bell-fhaped, and at laft lacerates and diflblves. 



Grows on decaying pieces, of moift wood, in cellars, cold 

 kitchens, &c. in plenty. 



