14 An HISTORY of AGARICS, 



XV. AGARICUS jlipitatiis fileo globojb purpurea, lamellu croceis 



fir rath. ferratis. 



AGARIC with SERRATED GILLS. 



TAB. XIV. 



r T~ s HE root is an hard blunt termination of the ftem ; it is of 

 a brittle fubftance, and feems to adhere to the ground by 

 its bafe, without vifible fibres : there is no volva. 



The ftem is round, upright, hard, and folid; it is the 

 thicknefs of one's thumb, three inches long, and of a dufky 

 gold colour ; the fubftance within a pale yellow, brittle, and 

 fpongy ; not divifible in filaments : there is no curtain. 



The gills in three feries, rather remote, ftrong, grofs, and 

 brittle, adhering to the ftem by a narrow claw; their colour is 

 a fine gold yellow, and they are remarkable, in being vifibly 

 ferrated on the edges with a brownifh colour. 



The pileus globular, three inches in diameter, of a bloomy 

 purple colour; it is foft, and feels to the touch like fine wool- 

 len cloth, yet there is no vifible dawn. The flelh or fubftance 

 is thick, brittle, and white. The whole plant diftblves in a 

 brown loathfome jelly, about the third day from its firft fpring- 

 ing up. 



Grows in woods, but is rare. The fpecimen here figured 

 grew in the plantation at Bramham, near Leeds ; it grew under 

 the trees to the left hand, when you enter the park by a foot- 

 way from Keddow- Lane-Head, Auguft 28, 1786. 



