GROWING about HALIFAX. 49 



AGARICUS Jlipitatus, pileo pulvinato fubvifcido margine in- LVI. 

 tegro JiriatOy lamellis minoris bafi truncatis, — volva lata fuhinatus. 

 lobata permanere, velo nulla. 



CUSHION AGARIC. 



TAB. XLIX. 



/ T~ V HE root is bulbous, large, and furrounded with a large, 

 •*■ thick, lobed, grey, davvny volva, which remains till the 

 decay of the plant; it emits fibres from its bafe. 



The ftem folid, upright, round, fmooth, and of a dead 

 dark grey colour; it is thick and grofs at firft, but decreafes in. 

 thicknefs as it advances in height. There is no curtain. 



The gills are arranged in three feries, and are ftraight or even 

 on the edges, making the under furface plain or flat; the firft. 

 feries terminate in a point at the bafe, and do not adhere to the 

 ftem ; thofe of the fecond and third feries are cut off at the 

 bafe by a right line obliquely, by which peculiarity the fpecies 

 is at once diftinguifhed. 



The pileus at firft globular, and glutinous, afterwards be- 

 comes cufhion-fhaped and dry ; the margin even, and ftrongly 

 ftriated ; the furface is of a clothy touch, and a kind of mixed 

 brownifh moufe colour; the internal fubftance white and 

 fpongy. 



This fpecies is rare about Halifax; it grows in woods, in 

 fhady moid places. The fpecimen here defcribed, I gathered 

 in Ramfden, September 27, 1787; and have feen the plant in. 

 fome other woods in this neighbourhood. 



