GROWING about HALIFAX. 7 



AGARICUS Jlipitatus, pileo lacerato plumofo, lamellis trifidh vill, 



Jltpite Jijluhfo. crijiatus. 



CRESTED AGARIC. 



TAB. vn. 



H^HE root is round, hard, and brown ; furrounded with foft 



dawny brown fibre 

 matter; it has no volva. 



dawny brown fibres, entangled amongft a grey mouldy 



The ftem is round, hollow, and fmooth ; two inches high ; 

 the thicknefs of a duck's quill; of a pale brownifh colour, 

 eafily dividing into filky filaments. 



The curtain white, tender, breaks and vanifhes while the 

 plant is young. 



The gills in three feries, white, of a tender fubftance, 

 broadeft towards the bafe, but not adhering to the ftem. 



The pileus at firft conical, afterwards becomes horizontal, 

 and lacerated round the rim ; two inches in diameter, and of a 

 foft filky fubftance : the ground colour a pale milky white. — 

 It is thickly covered with little tufts, of a brown red colour, 

 which are not the fragments of a volva, but grow from the 

 fubftance of the pileus. 



It grows in gardens, but not common. This fpecimen 

 grew in the garden of J. Cook, Efq; of Warley, Septem- 

 ber 15, 1787. 



