GROWING about HALIFAX. 23 



AGARICUS Jlipitatus, pileo campanulato fubfufco fquamato, 

 lamellis albidis, Jlipite bulbofo analato. Ligbtfoot's Flora 

 Scot: 1025. Agaricus (procerus). Hudjons Flo: A?ig: 

 612, 10. 



RUFFLED AGARIC. 



TAB. XXIII. 



'"T~ V HE root is bulb-fhaped, of a foft and fpongy fubftance, 

 -*■ about the fize of a pigeon's egg, and fends out numerous 

 proper fibres : there is no volva. 



The ftem is upright, fmooth, round, and gradually tapering 

 from the root upwards ; it is white, fiftular, and has a fine 

 dawn in the perforation ; the fubftance foft, elaftic, and eafily 

 divifible in foft filky filaments ; the colour is white at firft, 

 but afterwards changes to a pale ftraw colour. It is five or fix 

 inches high. 



The curtain is a little tough, white, fperates from the rim 

 of the pileus, abides on the ftem like a ruffle, and is moveable 

 upwards and downwards, by means of a central ring, to which 

 it adheres, and in which it feems to originate. 



The gills in two or three feries, of various irregular lengths, 

 numerous, thin, and deep ; at firft gently tinged with a light 

 rofe colour, as in the common mufhroom, next they become 

 white, and laftly of a pale brown. 



The pileus is at firft of a globular figure, afterwards be- 

 comes conical, or bell-fhaped fometimes beaked at the vortex, 

 with a little prominence, the fize of a fleeve button; when full 

 grown is wide expanded round the rim, and approaches to an 

 horizontal pofition ; changes from white to a pale brown, and 

 is covered with foft brown fcales, which are not the fragments 

 of a volva, as in the Agaricus, mufcarius, but grow from the 

 fubftance of the pileus. 



Grows in the dry parts of woods about Halifax, in October, 

 but not plentifully. 



XXIV. 

 annulatus. 



