48 An HISTORY of AGARICS, 



LV. AGARICUS fipitatus totus albus, Jiipite bulbofo volvato, pileo 

 •vemalis. hemifphcerico fplendente glutinofo, velo areneofo manente. 



BULBOUS VERNAL AGARIC. 



TAB. XL VIII. 



MpHE root is a large globular bulb, of a foft fpongy fub- 

 -■" fiance, white, and furrounded by a foft, white, bilobate 

 volva. 



The item is folid, fmooth, upright, white, foft, fpongy, 

 brittle, and three or four inches high. 



The curtain is white, very delicate, while it is extended 

 over the gills it appears like a thin dawny fpider's web ; after 

 it is difengaged from the rim it contracts, and abides on the 

 flem for a fhort time. 



The firft feries of gills lance fhaped at both extremities, 

 not adhering to the flem ; they are interfered by a fecond and 

 third feries, irregularly ; are white and of a thin and delicate 

 fubflance. 



The pileus is at firfl globular, at lafl hemifpherical ; the 

 furface fmooth as fine vellum, and covered with a flippery, 

 fhining glutin ; the flefh or internal fubflance is foft, white, and 

 dawny. 



I have feen a large variety of this fpecies wherein the curtain 

 was wanting, and the flem covered from to top to bottom with 

 a kind of loofe cottony dawn. 



Grows in woods about Halifax, both in fpring and autumn. 



I have named it vemalis rather than bulbbfus, becaufe Hud- 

 son has already given the latter name to a very different fpecies. 

 — It is of a poifonous quality, and many have fuffered by eating it. 

 'The mojl approved cure, according to Bulliard, isfi r fl of all to 

 take an ILmetic, and afterwards ten or twelve drops of Vitriolic 

 /Ether in wine ; if this fljould not fucceed, bruife a clove of Garlic 

 in milk, and give it to the patient. 



