GROWING about HALIFAX. 5 g 



AGARICUSJfzpitatus, pileo et lamellis lividofufcis, centro urn- LXVn. 

 bilicate margine dejlexo, Jlipite bafi crajjiore. Dixon Cript. fordidm. 

 P. 16. T. 3. F. 1. 



SORDID AGARIC. 



TAB. LIX. 



npHE root or bafe is a little thicker than the ftem ; it is hard, 

 A of a dark brown colour, and emits a few black fibres. 



The ftem is cylindrical while young, folid, and of a pale 

 brown colour; afterwards becomes filtular, and changes to a 

 dark fordid brown. 



The gills are in three feries, thin, narrow, and arched ; 

 thofe of the firft feries touching the top of the ftem with a nar- 

 row bafe ; they are pliable, tough, of a dufky brown, tinged 

 with a flefhy hue. 



The pileus is at firft convex, a little waved round the rim ; 

 afterwards it becomes horizontal, next umbilicated in the 

 centre, and laftly funnel-fhaped ; the furface is fmooth, feels to 

 the touch like vellum, fhines a little, and is of a darkifh moufe 

 colour when at maturity ; it is thin of flefh ; the fubftance 

 tough and leathern ; it abides for a long time, and turns quite 

 black in decay. 



Grows in low meadows, where the grafs is deep and the foil 

 rich ; it is a late fpecies, being raoft plentiful in November and, 

 December. 



To feveral drawings of this Agaric, which I have formerly 

 made for my friends. I put the trivial pezizoides, but to avoid. 

 confufion, have here made ufe of fordidus, as given by my 

 friend Dickson- 



