GROWING about HALIFAX. 13 



AGARICUS Jlipitatus, pileo fufco lobato undulato, lamsUis XIV. 



trifidis profundus cameo pallidis, Jiipite jijlulofo grifeo, irregularis. 



IRREGULAR AGARIC. 



TAB. XIII. 



/ "T~ V HE root in this, as in moil other Agarics, confifts of an 

 hard abrupt termination of the flem, emitting a multi- 

 tude of fibres, of a grey colour, and a dawny, or mucor-like 

 fubftance; in this fpecies there is no volva. 



The flem is round, fmooth, fiftular, and of a pale grey 

 colour, eafily divifible into fmall filaments. 



The curtain is of a greyifh white, thin, and of a very light 

 and dawny texture; breaks and entirely vanifhes foon after the 

 plant appears above ground. 



The gills in three feries, deep, and remote; of a tough plia- 

 ble fubflance, and a pale dufky flefh colour. 



The pileus a fordid purple brown, covered with a glutinous 

 matter, two inches in diameter, lobed, waved, and crupled in 

 a very irregular manner -, while young irregularly deflected 

 round the margin, at all times a little beaked or elevated in the 

 centre. 



Grows in dry and barren pafture and meadow ground, about 

 Halifax, in great plenty, in Augufl and September. 



