52 An HISTORY of AGARICS, 



LX. AGARICUS Jlipitatus, pileo rimofo : margine violaceo tomentofo, 

 violaceus. Jiipite ccerulefente, lanaferrnginea. Linn. Sp. P/1641. 



VIOLET COLOURED AGARIC. 



TAB. LIf. 



/ "T"*HE root is fwelled, and approaching to a bulb-fhape; it 

 -*- is firm, hard, folid, and fends out many capillary fibres, 

 of a pale brown colour. 



The ftem is of a pale purple colour, firm and folid, eafily 

 divifible in fine, pale, purple, iilky filaments, and near the root 

 is covered with a ruft coloured dawn. 



The curtain is like a fine and tender fpider's web, foon 

 breaks and vanifhes, leaving no remainder; it is of a brownifh 

 ruft colour. 



The gills are arranged in three feries, but irregularly, they 

 are deep, membranaceus, and gently waved on the edges ; the 

 colour is a violet blue, turning brown in decay. 



The pileus at firft hemifpherical, afterwards convex ; the 

 rim a little waved ; the furface foft and clothy to the touch ; 

 while young of a full violet purple colour, but changes to a 

 pale brown or ruft colour; this change firft takes place at the 

 centre of the pileus, and gradually prevails till the purple is 

 quite loft even to the margin ; at laft the pileus lacerates, and 

 the whole diflblves in a turbid ftinking jelly, of a fordid 

 brown colour. 



Grows in Woodhoufe-Wood, and fome other woods about 

 Halifax, in Auguft and September, but not plentifully. 



