GROWING about HALIFAX. 15 



AGARICUS Jlipitatus, pileo cumpanulato fufco vifcido, lamellis XVI. 

 trifidis albis, Jlipite fiftulofo albo. concimus. 



NEAT AGARIC. 



TAB. XV. 



HpHE root is a little fwollen, frequently comprefled, or of 

 ■*" an irregular figure -, it has a few proper fibres, and is not 

 furrounded by a volva. 



The ftein is the thicknefs of a goofe-quill, white, fiftular, 

 and of a tender delicate fubftance ; it is two or three inches 

 high, and has no curtain. 



The gills are in three feries, numerous, deep, of a thin, 

 pliable texture, clofely and beautifully arranged ; their colour, 

 like that of the item, is white. 



The pileus of a dark moufe coloured brown, while young 

 of a bell-fhape, and covered with a vifcid flippery fluid; after- 

 wards becomes dry, and expands, but not fo as to become 

 horizontal : the flefh is thin and white, in decay it diilblves in 

 a brown turgid jelly. 



Grows in moift places in feveral woods about Halifax. The 

 fpecimen here figured, I gathered in the Birks, or Burks ti 

 September 23, 1786. 



