S 8 An HISTORY of AGARICS, 



LXVL AGARIC US fipitatus, piieo hemifpherico fubpellucido, lamellis 

 pnonatuu trifidis paucis angujiis pellucidis, Jiipite parte fuperior glabro, 



inferior lanuginofo, baji arcuato. 



SPATTERDASHED AGARIC. 



TAB. LXVIII. 



THE root is flat, compreffed, crooked or bowed, and adheres 

 by numerous fibres to heaps of fallen decaying oak leaves, 

 in moift and putrid places. 



The ftem is folid, firm, and tough ; of a pale ftraw colour, 

 and three inches high : the upper part is cylindrical and fmooth, 

 but from the middle downwards, it is furrounded with an erecT: 

 cottony dawn or woollinefs, of a bright yellow colour, — which 

 not unaptly refembles the ftraw fpatterdajlo, worn in time of 

 fnow by the mountaineers in Torkjhire. 



The gills are in three feries, few, thin, and narrow; thofe 

 of the firft feries adhering to the ftem by a narrow bafe; they 

 are of a pale watery ftraw colour, and pellucid. 



The pileus is hemifpherical, acute at the rim, where it be- 

 comes waved when old ; it is thin, femipellucid, and deftitute 

 of flefh; the furface feels clothy to the touch, and appears to 

 the eye like a mixture of brown and white wool. 



It is a rare fpecies here ; grows in the deep and moift parts 

 of woods, amongft the fallen oak leaves. The fpecimens here 

 figured and defcribed, grew in a little wood, called Trough of 

 Holland, in Northowram, near Halifax, September 10, 1787. 



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