22 An HISTORY of AGARICS, 



XXIII. AGARICUS Jlipitatus, piko fordide fiavo, lamellis luteo rvjis. 



cinnamoiteus. Sp: PI: 1 642. 



Agaricus Jlipitatus, pileo convexo rufo lamellis jiavefcentihcs, Jlipite 

 longojlavo. Hudjbn, 615, 18. 



BROWN AGARIC. 



TAB. XXII. 



r TpHE root is hard, brown, comprefled or flat ; fometimes 

 irregularly diftorted, emits brown hard fibres, and takes 

 firm hold in the ground : it is not furrounded by a volva. 



The ftem is fmooth, fmalleft: near the root, gradually in- 

 creafing upwards ; while young it is lbiid, but becomes fiftular 

 afterwards ; the fubftance is tough, and eafily divided into flen- 

 der filaments -, the colour is a yellowifh brown ; it is three or 

 four inches high : there is no curtain. 



The gills are in three feries, deep, of a foft pliable fubftance, 

 and of a pale yellowifh cinnamon colour; comparitively they 

 are few in number. 



The pileus is at firft convex and waved round the margin, 

 afterwards it becomes horizontal, and more fenfibly waved and 

 undulated ; and at lafb the rim becomes fo much elevated, as to 

 give the pileus a funnel fhape, but with a gentle elevation in the 

 centre. The furface is fmooth, feels like vellum, and is of a 

 cinnamon colour ; the whole plant is of a tough pliable fub- 

 ftance, and continues for feveral days. 



Grows in woods about Halifax abundantly; greatly varying 

 in fize, according to foil and fituation. 



