18 An HISTORY of AGARICS, 



XIX. AGARICUS jlipitatus, pileo conico albido acuminato, lamellis 

 confcrtis. J'ufco pallidis, Jlipite numerofo albido. 



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WHITE CLUSTERED AGARIC. 



TAB. XVIII. 



npHE root is an irregular lump of a tough hard fubftance, 

 emitting numerous fhort grey dawny fibres , it is not fur- 

 rounded by a volva, and fupports numerous plants. 



The Hem white, dry, gently tapering from the root upwards, 

 the thicknefs of a fwallow's quill, two inches high, of a dry 

 light filky fubftance, but not fiftular. There is a white dawny 

 curtain, vifible only juft when the pileus firft peeps above the 

 furface of the ground. 



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The gills are in one feries, being all extended from the rim 

 of the pileus to the top of the ftem ; they are clofely arranged, 

 and of a thin and delicate fubftance : their colour is white, with 

 a faint tinge of pale brown. 



The pileus is conical, terminating in an acute point, which 

 point is tinged with a yellowilh brown, the reft white, the fur- 

 face fmooth, the fubftance light and cottony. In large fpeci- 

 mens it is about an inch in diameter; in decay it withers, and 

 becomes like foft paper. 



Grows amongft the Bark in hot-houfes. The fpecimen 

 here figured and defcribed, grew in the Pine-Stove of J. Cay- 

 gill, Efq; at Halifax, November, 1785. 



