24 An HISTORY of AGARICS, 



XXV. AG ARICUS Jlipitatits, pileo campaniformi albido lacero, lamellis 

 ixtinaorius. niveis, Jiipite fubbulbofo fubulato nudo. Linn: Flo: Suec: 



1 196. Sp: PI: 1643. Hudjon Angl: 617, 29. 



EXTINGUISHER AGARIC. 



TAB. XXIV. 



'TpHE root is a little fwelled, hard, white, and emits brown 

 fibres from the fides ; fometimes it fuftains feveral plants, 

 fometimes only .one : it is not furrounded by a volva. 



The ftem is cylindrical, fmooth, white, fiftular, with a 

 fmall perforation, wherein is a foft dawny matter like cotton ; 

 it is an inch in circumference, and five inches high : there is- 

 no curtain. 



The gills are in one feries, extremely numerous, thin, 

 deep, and delicate ; of a pure white colour at firft, afterwards 

 turn to a pale brown, and in decay diflblve in a dark brown 

 liquor. Their great number makes the pileus heavy as in the 

 Agaricus jimilarius , plicatus, luridus, 6cc. 



The pileus is fhaped like an extinguifher, terminating 

 bluntly above, and fpreading out at the rim, where it is a little 

 waved and undulated ; the furface is fmooth while the plant is 

 young, afterwards becomes ftiated, and at lail lacerates and 

 diffolves. The colour is white at firft, except a gentle tinge of 

 brown near the top, as it advances in age, the white changes 

 to a very pale brown ; and in feme fpecimens there are a few 

 dawny fcales or tufts of a pale brown, as in the Agaricus 

 jimitarius. 



Grows amongft fand, in moid and fhady.fituations about 

 Halifax, but is rare there. 



