4 Aw HISTORY of AGARICS, 



iv. AGARICU5 (lipitatus, pileo 



i  ins. lamellis margine dent at us, ji'ipu 



TOOTHED GILL'D AGARIC. 



TAB. IV. 



THE root is hird and oblique, of a brown colour, and 

 covered with dawny fibres; it is not iurroundcd by a 

 volva. 



The ftera is the thicknefs of a goofe-quill, hollow, the 

 fubftance thin, pliable, and tough, eafily fplitting in thin iilky 

 filaments ; the colour a very pale brownifh hue,, height two or 

 three inches ; it has no curtain. 



The gills in three feries, deep, and adhering to the ftern by 

 their bafe; they are remote, thin, pellucid, of a pale, livid, 

 watery, purple colour, and are remarkable in being dented along 

 the edges with vifible ruft coloured dents, as is exprejfed at A. 

 Thefe dents, according to the ingenious Hedwig, are the 

 male parts of fructification. See his Theoria Cryftogamicarum, 

 P. 162. tab. 34, Jig. 196, 197. 



The pileus hemifpherical, two inches diameter, a little 

 deflected, and flriated at the rim; of a dull livid purple, al- 

 mclt deftitute of fleih, and of a watery fubftance ; it d . 



in decay. 



Grows in woods near Halifax, but not plentifully. The 

 fpecimen here defcribed, grew in Stump-Wood, in Nortbowram t 

 September 10, 1787. 



V. 



tlurnius. 



AGARICUS Jlipitatus, pileo piano, lameilis bejidus Jlipite, 

 lame lice et pileo albo. 



IVORY AGARIC. 



T A B. IV. F I G. II. 



THE whole plant is of a pure white colour, pellucid, and 

 feems as if made of ivory. 

 Grows in meadows, amohgft the grafs, in September. The 

 Specimen here figured, I gathered amongft the grafs under the 

 elm trees near Stannary-Lane, September, 1787. 



