GROWING about HALIFAX. 



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AGARICUS Jiipitatus, pileo conico primo tetto pulvere niveo, lxi. 

 pojiea glutinofo, margine ciliata, Iwnellis trifidis nignis, Jlipite alia™, 

 bulbojo. 



EYELASHED AGARIC. 



TAB. LIII. 



'~F V HE root is fwollen fo as to approach to a bulb-fhape, and 

 -** emits numerous black fibres. 



The Item is hard, cylindrical, folid near the bafe, but 

 fiftular, with a fmall perforation, near the top; it is round, 

 fmooth, firm, and five or fix inches high; eafily fplits in fine 

 flender filaments, is white, and fometimes covered with a grey 

 powder. 



The curtain breaks and vanifhes while the plant is young, 

 leaving a grey indiftincl: annulus on the flem. 



The gills are of a footy grey, arranged in three feries, irre- 

 gularly ; they are narrow at the bafe, and broad towards the ex- 

 ternal extremity, of a foft and tender fubftance. 



The pileus while young (if the feafon is dry) is covered 

 with a mow white powder, the particles whereof glitter when 

 viewed in the fun, juft like thofe on the petals of a white lily, 

 or a narciifus : — this powder foon diffolves, and covers the pileus 

 with a flippery glutin; at full growth it is of a conical fhape, 

 blunt at top, of a pale kind of ftraw colour, and a fmooth 

 vellumy furface. It is lingular, in that the margin is extended 

 beyond the extremity of the gills, and terminates in a fhort 

 black ciliation. 



Grows moft frequently on frefh dunghills; fometimes I 

 have feen it in pafture grounds. 



It differs from A. plicatus>Jlriatus, luridus, et Jimetarius, in 

 that the gills are in feveral feries, of unequal length; from the 

 A. clypeatus, in magnitude, and in the blunt external termina- 

 tion of the gills ; and from all others in the marginal fringe. 



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