6 An HISTORY of AGARICS, 



VII. AG ARICUS Jlipitatus, pileo repando femipllucido, laniellis trifidis 

 vepandus. cameo pallidis, jlipite fjlulojo albo. 



SPREADING AGARIC. 



TAB. VI. 



'"T^HE root tapers to a point, from which it fends out a few 

 hard crooked fibres, an inch or two in length ; it has no 

 volva. 



The Item white, mining, with a filky glofs, largeft near 

 the bottom, gradually tapering upwards, fometimes a little 

 twilled, and of an irregular furface. It is five inches high, 

 fiftular, and eafily fplits in fmall white mining filaments ; there 

 is no curtain. 



The gills are in three feries, deep and very remote, termi- 

 nating in a broad bafe, but not adhering to the ftera. Set: 

 Jigure A. They are of a tender foft pliable fubilance, and 

 tinged with a faint dufky rle(h colour. 



The pileus convex at firft, when in perfection horizontal, 

 fpreading out at the rim; four or five inches diameter; of a 

 dead white colour, a tender watery fubftance, and destitute of 

 fleih. 



Grows in the fhady parts of woods in the neighbourhood 

 of Halifax, in Auguft and September. 



