GROWING about HALIFAX. 25 



AGARICUS Jlipitatiu, pileo conico grifeo vifcido, margine XXVI. 

 incequale, lamellis intcgris profundi's Jordide cceruleus, ftipite hridus, 

 folida arcuata. 



FOUL AGARIC. 



TAB. XXV. 



' r v HE root is hard and mifhapen, of a dirty brown, emitting 

 -*- many fibres, fuftaining one or more plants, and is deflitute 

 of volva. 



The ftem is hard, folid, crooked, or bent in various direc- 

 tions ; it is about the thicknefs of one's little finger, of an ugly 

 pale litter-celour, and four inches high : there is no curtain. 



The gills are in one feries, extended from the rim of the 

 pileus to the centre, but do not adhere to, or even touch the 

 item ; they are extremely numerous, and very clofely arranged ; 

 they are deep and large, rendering the pileus heavy by their 

 great number; they are of a difagreeable fordid greyifh blue, 

 and in decay difTolve in a brown itinking fluid. 



The pileus irregularly cone-fhaped, diameter of the bafe 

 two inches and a half, height from the bafe to the top about 

 the fame meafure ; it is of a kind of dufky greyifh hue, with 

 a caff, of dirty olive colour ; is quite fmooth, and covered with 

 a thick flippery loathfome half-congealed fluid. The margin is 

 lobed, and iinuated in an irregular manner ; the lobes and hol- 

 lows being very unequal and fometimes feparated by deep 

 ga flies. 



Grows on Gibbet-Hill, and in fome other places near Hali- 

 fax. — It differs from the A.Jlriatus, as will be feen hereafter. 



In this fpecies we frequently find feveral young plants ad- 

 hering to the root of a full grown one. 



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