'50 An HISTORY of AGARICS, 



LVII. AGARICUS totus luteus, Jlipite fubbulbofo annulate, pileo obtufo 

 luteus. conico pilofofquamofoy velo araneofo, fubflantiajicca. 



YELLOW COTTONY AGARIC. 



TAB. L. 



THE root is a misfhapen piece of fungous matter, covered 

 with innumerable grey mouldy fibres, and produces nu- 

 merous plants in fuccemon. 



The flem is fwollen or bulbous at the bafe, diminifhing 

 gradually upwards. 



The curtain is extremely delicate and tender, breaks and 

 vanifhes while the plant is young ; it originates in a dawny an- 

 nulus or ring, which furrounds the Hem, and abides after its 

 difappearance. 



The gills arranged in one feries, numerous, lance-fhaped, 

 not adhering to the item, the fubftance light, tender, and de- 

 licate. 



The pileus cone-fhaped, blunt at top, in its infancy 

 wrapped up in a dawny volva or epidermis, which is proper to 

 itfelf, and which is broken by the increafe of its growth, and 

 remains in little, foft, cottony tufts on the furface ; the margin 

 is irregularly waved and undulated, and in the laft ftages of the 

 plant becomes ftriated. 



The whole plant is of a bright yellow colour, and of a dry, 

 light, cottony fubflance. 



The fpecimen here figured and defcribed, grew amonft the 

 bark in the pine-flove belonging to J. Caygill, Efqj at Sha, 

 near Halifax, in Auguft, 1785. 



