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HISTORY of AGARICS, 



G R OWING about HALIFAX. 



AGARICUSJlipitatus, lamellis omnibus ceequalibus, Sp: PI: 1640. 



Agaricus Jlipitatus, pileo convexiufculo vijcido purpurea, r 

 lamellis omnibus ceequalibus albis. Hud: Angl: 610: 4. Bat- 

 tar, Jung, tab. \§tjig. E. 



EQUAL GILL'D AGARIC. 



TAB. T. 



"HE root is alitttlc fwollen and irregular, terminating the 

 ftem obtufely ; it is firm and feels folid, is of a brittle 

 fubfbance, emits a few proper fibres, and fuftains one plant only. 



The Hem round, upright, folid, of a fpongy brittle fub- 

 ftance, the thicknefs of one's thumb, and two or three inches 

 high. The colour is a perfect white, both within and with- 

 out ; there is no curtain. 



The gills in one feries, regularly extended from the head of 

 the ftem to the rim of the pileus ; lbmetimes, however, there 

 are a few intermediate ones extending but half way. They 

 are conitantly of a pure white colour, while young of a tender 

 fubftance, and greedily devoured by the fnails. 



The pileus lmooth, while young of a globular figure, and 

 covered with a glutin*. When in perfection horizontal, fm'ooth, 

 plain, fometimes white, often ftrongly tinged, efpecially to- 

 wards the rim, with a fine crimfon, a carnation, or a purple 

 colour, which in decay changes to a dirty blue or green; di- 

 ameter from two to four inches, abounds with fleib of a fpongy 

 brittle fubftance, and white colour; at laft diflblves in a brown 

 turged jelly. 



Grows in all the woods about Halifax, in plenty, from 

 Auguft to November. 



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* A gummy or glutinous fluid, which is found, like a varnifh, on the furface of many 

 Armies. 



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