GROWING ajsout HALIFAX. 55 



AGARICUSJlipitatus, pileo convexo margine involuto, lamellis LXHI. 

 t?-ifidis decurrentibus, Jlipite adfcendente. aifcendm- 



tibus. 



CURVED AGARIC. 



TAB. LV. 



^HE root is hard, of a dark brown, fends out many black, 

 •** hard, fhort fibres, and fuftains one plant only. 



The item is hard, folid, of a brownifh fnuff colour, and 

 about three inches high ; it grows on the perpendicular furface 

 of the broken earth, befides deep lanes and pathways in woods ; 

 it grows at firft horizontally, and then curves gradually up- 

 wards. 



The gills are in three feries ; thofe of the firft running down 

 the item, in a narrow pointed bafe ; they are numerous, of a 

 dry pliable fubftance, and a pale brown colour. 



The pileus is convex from firft to laft, very much rolled in 

 at the margin, where it is fmooth and entire; — a little above 

 the margin, on the moft prominent part of the pileus, all 

 round about, is a band or belt of a velvety furface ; it is about 

 one fourth of an inch in breadth, more or lefs, in proportion 

 to the fize of the fpecimen ; — above this, on the top or upper 

 part, the pileus is fmooth, and fhines as if it were glazed : — 

 the fubftance of the whole is hard, dry, and brittle; the colour 

 a reddifh brown. 



This plant agrees with the A. laSiifluus in fome particulars, 

 but differs from it in having the item conftantly curved, in the 

 velvety belt on the pileus, and in that the whole is of a dry 

 fubftance, and yields no milk. 



Grows in the Burks, and other woods about Halifax, in 

 September and Oclober. 



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