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12 An HISTORY of AGARICS, 



Xlir. AGARICUS Jiipitatus, pileo hemtfphcerico rugofo, latnellis 



trifidis albidis, Jlipite alio. 



BLUE AGARIC. 



TAB. xir. 



'"TpHE root confifts of an irregularly compreffed termination, 

 or rather origin of the flem ; it emits numerous fine 

 dawny grey fibres : there is no volva. 



The ftem is upright, round, hard, and folid; the fize of a 

 fwan's quill, and three inches high ; it is of a dufky white 

 colour, and has no curtain. 



The gills in three feries, white, grofs, and brittle; they 

 are narrow, and adhere to the ftem by their bafe. 



The pileus hemifpherical, two or three inches diameter, of 

 a greyifh blue colour, and dry furface ; feels like cloth made of 

 coarfe wool, is firm and hard, but yet very brittle. The fub- 

 ftance of the flefh white and thick. 



Gathered in the wood below Wheat ly, Auguft 16, 1786 j 

 and again in Auguft, this prefent year 1787. 



