GROWING about HALIFAX. 9 



AGARICUS Jlipitatus, pileo tejiaceo, fucco lutefcente, Sp: PI: x. 

 1 641. Hud: Aug: 613. Battar,jung, tab. 16, jig. H. delido/u 



ORANGE AGARIC. 



T A B. IX. 



THE root is an obtufe termination of the flem ; it is hard, 

 and emits numerous dawny brown fibres ; gathering a 

 , portion of mould with it, when taken up : there is no vifible 

 volva. 



The flem is hard, crooked, and brittle j the thicknefs of a 

 fwan's quill, and two inches high ; the fubflance brittle, white 

 within, and not divifible in fibres; when old becomes fifiular. 

 There is no curtain. 



The gills thin, narrow, arranged in three feries ; the fecond 

 and third feries irregular in length j they are of 3 brittle fub- 

 flance, and a pale buff colour ; when broken a milky fluid 

 iflues out in drops, of a yellow colour, and of a foft herby 

 tafte in general ; but in fome a little acrid, efpecially while 

 young. 



The pileus a little waved round the rim, and while young 

 defledled ; then becomes horizontal, and at lafl; umbilicated in 

 the centre; but the margin does not rife, fo as to give it a fun- 

 nel fhape. The colour of both pileus and flem is a fine full 

 bright orange. In decay it turns brown and diflblves. 



Grows in Ramjden, and many other woods about Halifax, 

 in October. 



It differs from the A. laffifluus, in being of a fcarlet or 

 orange colour, in bleeding a yellow milk, in being a fmaller 

 plant, and in that it never becomes funnel fliaped. 



