8 An HISTORY of "AGARICS, 



IX. AGARICUS Jlipitatus, pileo lobato, lame His trifidis decurren- 



cornuco- tWUS, Jlip'itC tOrtUofo. 



CORNUCOPIA AGARIC. 



TAB. VM. 



' I ''HE root is tough, irregular, much twirled, and furrounded 

 with numerous woolly fibres, of a red brown colour; an 

 inch or two from the bottom divides in feveral flat twifted fur- 

 rowed ftems, of a black brown colour, and a tough elaflic 

 leathery fubftance; upwards they enlarge, and become more 

 vifibly twilled, are flrongly corded or nerved, which cords or 

 nerves are a continuation of the decurrency of the gills. Thefe 

 flems grow four or five in number, from the fame root, are 

 four or five inches high, and of a dead brown colour. 



The gills are in three or four feries, they are remote, nar- 

 row, tough, and of a dead buff brown ; they are remarkably 

 decurrent, their bafes running down the flem, even to the 

 root. 



The pileus three inches diameter, ljbed in a Angular and 

 not inelegant manner. The lobes are four or five in number, 

 waved and curled on the edges, thin, or almoft deftitute of 

 flefh, of a tough elaflic fubflance, and a dufky cinnamon 

 colour. 



Grows in fhady woods about Halifax, but not plentifully. 

 The plant here figured, I gathered in a little wood, near the 

 farm called Brakenbed, in Ovenden, September 3, 1787. 



