GROWING about HALIFAX. 61 



AGARlCUSJlipitatus, pileo infundibuliforme margine elegant ifjime LXIX. 

 crifpato lobato Jimbriato tenue a/bo femitranfparente, lamellis fmbriam. 

 trifidis longijjimts angajlifjimis pellucidis,Jiipite gracik breve. 



FIMBRIATED AGARIC. 



TAB. LXr. 



'HpHE root confifts of a few fibres ifiuing from the bottom of 

 ■*■ the ftem. 



The ftem is about an inch high, fmooth, folid, tough, pel- 

 lucid, and of a dufky watery white colour. 



The gills are arranged in three feries, diftincl, very long, 

 very narrow, very thin and delicate ; the fubftance is pellucid, 

 tender, turning to a watery gelly, on being prefled between 

 the fingers ; the colour a greyilh watery white. 



The pileus at its firft appearance is convex, afterwards be- 

 comes horizontal, and when at maturity funnel-lhaped ; the 

 margin at all times waved, lobed, curled, and undulated in the 

 moft elegant manner; the furface is fmooth as vellum, fhines 

 a little, by means of a moifture which is not glutinous, and is 

 of the fame colour as the ftem and gills ; the fubftance is 

 thin, tender, and femitfanfparent. 



I have feen this plant in feveral fhady moift woods about 

 Halifax. The fpecimen here defcribed, I gathered in Stump- 

 Wood, in Northowram, in Auguft, 1787. 



The fubftance and figure of this plant, diftinguifh it at once 

 from all its congeners. — I find no fatis factory account of it in 

 any author, fince Steerbeck, who in his Theater of Fungujes, 

 P. 119, calls it auricula leporis alba, and has given two figures 

 of it. Plate 15, B. B. 



