io An HISTORY of AGARICS, 



XI. AGARICUS Jlipitatus, piko jubconico caflaneo, lam el lis trifidis, 

 «& a *™' Jlipite albofijiiilofo, cortina alba. 



CHESNUT AGARIC. 



T A B. X. 



*TpHE root is a fmall, irregular, roundifh bulb, of a firm 

 fubftance, emitting a few hard brown fibres ; it is not fur- 

 rounded by a volva, and produces one plant only. 



The flem is cylindrical, white, and the thicknefs of a goofe- 

 q u ill ; it is fiftular, with a fmall perforation ; the fubftance 

 firm, elaftic, and ealily divides in fine lilky fibres. Its height 

 is about three inches. 



The curtain is thin and delicate, breaks from the centre, 

 hangs for a little while to the rim of the pileus, and then 

 vanilb.es, leaving no annulus on the flem -, it is white. 



The pileus at firft conial, with an obtufe point, afterwards 

 becomes hemifpherical, and at laft nearly flat. The furface is 

 fmooth, and of a bright beautiful chefnut brown. 



The gills are in three feries ; the third feries very fhort, and 

 while the plant is young imperceptible ; they are of a very pale 

 buff colour, and of a thin and delicate texture. 



This is a rare fpecies ; I have only feen it in two or three 

 places, particularly in a little wood called Bracken-Bed-JFood, 

 in Ovenden, where I gathered the fpecimen here figured and 

 defcribed, in October, 1786. 



