2 An HISTORY of AGARICS, 



II. AGARICUS ftip'itatus pileo convexo fufco, lamellis trifidis 

 latiis. latijfimis cameo pallldis. 



BROAD AGARIC. 



TAB. II. 



'T^HE root is a little fwelled, or approaching to a bulbous 

 figure; it is hard and firm if preffed between the fingers, 

 of a white colour within, and of a dry brittle fubftance ; 

 covered on the outfide with innumerable dawny fibres, by 

 means whereof it brings up a covering of the mould, amongft 

 which it grows, when it is gathered. It produces one plant 

 only, and has no volva. 



The Hem round, upright, firm, folid, and is eafily diviiible 

 in fine, mining, filky filaments, is about the iize of one's middle 

 finger, and four inches high. The colour, a dufky white on the 

 outride, and of a lilver white within -, it has no curtain. 



The gills in three feries, broad, deep, and large, as expreffed 

 at A; they are numerous, thin, and pliable: they are white, 

 and faintly tinged with a kind of duiky fleih colour. 



The pileus from four to feven inches diameter, of a fmooth 

 dry fubftance, feels like fine woollen cloth, and is. of a kind of 

 brownifh moufe-colour. The fubftance of the flefh brittle and 

 fpongy, and of a fair white. —  — This plant differs from the A. 

 integer, in that the gills are in three feries, from the A. muf- 

 can'us, and A, annulatus, in having neither volva or curtain. 



Grows under old wood piles, and amongft rotten faw dull, 

 in September and October. 



