GROWING about HALIFAX. 17 



AG ARICUS Jtipitatus, pileo lamellis et Jlipite albido, tola planta XVIII. 



coriacea. umbUicatus. 



NAVEL AGARIC. 



TAB. XVII. 



'T^HE root is a little hard tubercle, the fize of a fmall pea, 

 of a brownifh colour, and furnifhed with a great number 

 of fine fhort capillary greyifh fibres : there is no volva. 



The flem is round, cylindrical, the thicknefs of a duck's 

 quill, three inches high, of a dead white colour, and of a folid, 

 firm, tough, elaftic fubftance ; but eafily fplits from end to end, 

 in white, fpringy, fhining filaments: there is no curtain.] 



The gills are difpofed in three feries, rather broad than other- 

 wife, remotely placed, white, and of a tough and pliable fub- 

 ilance. 



The pileus at firft convex, afterwards becomes horizontal 

 and depreffed in the centre, with a cavity refembling a navel ; 

 it is from one to two inches diameter, of a white colour, a 

 fmooth furface, and a tough elaflic fubftance. The plant is 

 of a flow growth, and abides for weeks ; in decay the colour 

 changes from white to a yellowifh brown, after which it melts 

 in a brown liquor. 



, Grows in clofe plantations, particularly thofe of fir or 

 larch, from July to Odtober. It abounds in the plantations 

 about Fixby-Hall, the feat of T. Thornhill, Efq; The rich 

 and extenfive plantations around that rural and beautiful Villa, 

 have afforded me feveral curious and undefcribed fpecies of 

 Britifh Fungi. 



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