54 An HISTORY of AGARICS, 



LXII. AGARICUS jlipitatus, pileo campanulato fufco Jlriato glabro, 

 fitiatu:. lamellis grifeis margine crifpis, Jiipite fjlulofo. Hud/on 



A?7gl. 617. 



STRIATED AGARIC. 



TAB. EIV. 



THE root confifts of a few fibres iffuing from the bottom of 

 the ftera. Authors mention a taper root, running under 

 ground, which I have not yet been able to difcover. 



The ftera is upright, white, fiftular, gently tapering from 

 the root, and five or fix inches high. 



The curtain vanifhes as foon as the rim of the pileus begins 

 to expand, leaving an obfcure black mark on the ftem, which 

 foon vanifhes. 



The gills are all of equal length, broadeft in the middle, 

 and gradually diminifhing to each extremity, where they are 

 pointed; they are grey in the firft ftages of the plant, turning 

 black in decay. In large fpecimens, when juft ready to fall, 

 the feeds are fometimes vifible to the naked eye, lying like a 

 red powder, on the edges of the half-diffolved gills. 



The pileus is of an oval-fhape, with one end lopped off; 

 the rim is lobed and much contracted ; the furface fixongly 

 flriated, from the verge to near the fummit, where it is fmooth ; 

 the colour is generally a reddifh brown, fometimes it inclines 

 to an afh colour; and in very damp places, I have feen the 

 pileus in young plants covered with pellucid grains, which, 

 when rubbed off, feel fharp between the fingers. 



The plant varies greatly in various foils ; fometimes it grows 

 fingly on the ground, is large, and of a red brown ; fometimes 

 in vaft clutters upon wet decayed wood; and is of a pale 

 brown, afh colour or grey : — 'the whole at lafl. diflblves in a 

 black liquor. 



