64. An HISTORY of AGARICS, 



LXXII. AGARICUS Jlipitatus, pileo convexiufculo cameo fufco, lamdlis 

 farinaceui. convexis dijlantibus incarnatis pulverulentis, Jiipite longo. 



Hudjbn AngL 616, 26. 



POWDERED AGARIC. 



TAB. LXIV. 



/ TpHE root is compreffed, irregular, a little thicker than the 

 •*■ ftem; it is of a dark brown colour, hard, and firm, 

 emitting mouldy grey fibres. 



The item is crooked, fmallefl in the middle, fiftular, with 

 a fmall perforation, eafily fplits in filaments, is of a fordid 

 brownifh flefh colour, and three or four inches high. 



The gills in three feries, few, grofs, and brittle; the firft 

 feries about twenty in number; they are crumpled or waved on 

 the edges, of a brownifh dufky flefh colour, and, together with 

 the ftem, are covered with a mealy powder, of a pale greyifh 

 flefh colour. 



The pileus is convex; when full grown an inch and half in 

 diameter, the rim gently waved; it is, like the other parts, of 

 a brownifh flefh colour, but not powdered ; the furface is foft, 

 and feels to the touch like fine woollen cloth wetted ; the fub- 

 ftance is thin, watery, and pellucid; the whole falls and rots, 

 of a dirty brown colour. 



It is not a common plant here. The fpecimen before me, I 

 gathered in Old-Lane-Wood, near Halifax ; I have alfo feen it 

 in Woodhoufe-Wood, and in the plantations about Fixby-Hall. 



In number and figure this plant very much refembles the 

 A. amethyjiinvs ; I can find no character of distinction between 

 them, except colour, and am therefore inclined to think, that 

 this is no more than a variety of it; but as feveral authors 

 have confidered it as a diftinct fpecies, I have taken the liberty 

 to give it a place in this Hifiory. 



