GROWING about HALIFAX. 6$ 



AGARICUS Jtipitatus, pileo pallido, difco jlellatini luteo, lamellts LXXiir. 

 fulphureis. Sp. PL 1642, 13. ejueJ}rit , 



STARRY AGARIC. 



TAB. LXV. 



npHE root is hard, brown, and globular; furnifhed with a 

 -*■ multitude of brown capillary fibres ; it fuftains one plant 

 only. 



The item is upright, fmooth, cylindrical, fiflular, and four 

 inches high ; the fubftance thin, delicate, and eafily fplits in 

 ilender mining fibres or filaments ; there is a fibrous or dawny 

 matter in the perforation; the colour is a pale dufky yellow. 



The gills regularly arranged in three feries, of a femioval 

 fhape, pointed at both extremities, and do not adhere to the 

 ftem; they are numerous, thin, pliable, delicate, and of a pale 

 yellow with a tinge of green ; fulphur coloured. 



The pileus is at firft. of an oval fhape, afterwards convex; 

 fometimes the apex projecting in form of a blunt point; the 

 colour is a pale kind of vellowifh, with a caft of buff, the apex 

 a little darker : — when the plant is young the pileus is fleightly 

 glutinous, afterwards becomes dry and is fmooth; in decay the 

 rim changes to a dufky hue, which hue gradually moots to- 

 wards the middle in concentric points, forming the appear- 

 ance of a yellow ftar, of ten or twelve rays, in the centre; at 

 laft the whole becomes dufky, and falls and diffolves, in about 

 the fpace of two days from its firft appearance. 



Grows in meadows and pafture grounds about Halifax, in 

 July and Auguft. 



This plant feems nearly related to the A. clypeatus, and may 

 poffibly be a variety of it. 



