2 o An HISTORY of AGARICS, 



XXI. AGARICUS jiipitatus, pileo campanulato plicato afro, fdpite 

 fMatus. longo "oentricofo albido. Fungus pileolo cumpanulato vert ice 



kvi, &c. Mich: Gen: p. 189, t. Bo, Jig. 5. 



MOURNING AGARIC. 



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/ "TpHE root coniifls of a few grey dawny fibres, furrounding 

 the bottom of the item, and extending themfelves on the 

 furface of the matter wherein it grows, for a fmall fpace, round 

 about. 



The flem is {even, or eight inches high, of a filver white, 

 fiflular, and fwelling towards the lower part, jufl like the feed- 

 ing flem of an onion ; it is of a very tender fubflance, and 

 eafily divides in white filky tender filaments. 



The pileus and gills feem to be infeperable, or united in 

 one fubflance; they are plaited like a fan. The fubflance ten- 

 der, watery, pellucid, of a pale colour, but thickly covered 

 with a black glutin, or moift powder, which diffolves on being 

 touched. The weight of the pileus, and weaknefs of the flem, 

 makes it very difficult to take up the plant without breaking 

 the neck of the flem ; as is expreffed in one of the figures. 



Grows in the fpace of a night, and falls and diffolves the 

 following day. The fpecimen, from which I took the figure, 

 diflblved in the time of drawing into a black vifcid liquor, 

 which, when dry, lay like a footy powder on the table, June 

 22, 1786. 



Grows on dunghills, or in fat meadows. The pileus at its 

 firfl appearance, is covered with a grey dawny volva, which 

 foon vanifhes. 



