56 An HISTORY of AGARICS, 



LXIV. AG ARICUS Jlipitatus, pileo convexo fulvo glabro, lame His trifidis 

 fuho/ui. remotis crajjis decurrentibus, Jlipite Jolida baft acuminata. 



FULVOUS AGARIC. 



TAB. LXIV. 



'"T" S HE root confifts of a few fibres, ifluing from the pointed 

 ■*■ termination or origin of the item ; the part from which 

 thefe fibres iflue, in this as well as moft other Agarics, is co- 

 vered with a mucor-like dawninefs, which poflibly may be the 

 remains of a volva, which covered the plant when in a ftate of 

 embrio, too minute for our obfervation. 



The ftem is round, upright, folid and firm ; it is eafily di- 

 vided into fine flender filaments, of a fliining white; it tapers 

 near the root, where it terminates in an obtufe point ; it is a 

 pale kind of buff colour, nearly white. 



The gills are in three feries, grofs, remote, .arched, and 

 adhering to the item by a broad decurrent bafe; the colour is 

 a pale, pleafant, fulvous brown. 



The pileus is of a globular fhape at firft, in the progrefs 

 becomes hemifpherical, and laftly horizontal ; fometimes the 

 rim rolls back, fo as to fhew the points of the gills all round, 

 on the upper-fide; the colour is at firft a bright fulvpus brown, 

 growing paler as it advances in age, and in decay changes to a 

 pale dirty white; the furface is fmooth and filky to the touch. 



Grows in dry and barren pafture grounds about Halifax, in 

 September and October. 



