GROWING about HALIFAX. 21 



AGARICUS Jlipitatus, pileo planiufculo laBefcente margine XXII. 

 dejiexo, lame II is ramojus pallidis . ^ piper atus> 



WHITE PEPPER AGARIC. 



TAB. xxr. 



/ TpHE root confifts of a few fhort fibres, adhering to the bot- 

 -*■ torn of the item, which terminates in an obtufe point : 

 there is no volva. 



The ftem is white, fmalleft above and below, fwollen in 

 the middle, where it is an inch or more in diameter; the fur- 

 face is fmooth, and the fubftance firm, folid, hard, and very 

 brittle : there is no curtain. 



The gills are extremely numerous and irregular ; their cen- 

 tral extremity juft touches, fcarce adheres to, the top of the 

 ftem ; they are narrow, and of brittle fubftance ; of a very pale 

 milk colour, and exhibit no proper arrangement, the lhorter 

 being united unto the longer, or ifTuing from them in a branched 

 order ; fome are entire for their whole length, others are divided 

 and fubdivided in a difhotomous order, as in the Agaricus 

 chanterellus. 



The pileus is white, fmooth, hard, and brittle; at firft 

 much deflected round the rim, afterwards becomes horizontal, 

 and at laft funnel-fhaped. When either the pileus, gills, or 

 ftem are wounded, there iffues out a milk, of an hot peppery 

 tafte, and leaves a difagreeable fenfation on the tongue for fome 

 hours. 



Grows in woods about Halifax. 



This is the true Pepper Agaric, found by Dr. Lister in 

 Morion woods, under Pinno-Moor, Craven. See Raii: Syn: 

 p. 5. 1 here is another Agaric, with which this feems to have 

 been confounded, as will appear in the courfe of this work. 



