durus. 



GROWING about HALIFAX. 67 



AGARICUS Jiipitatus, pileo convexo pallide luteo, lamellis Lxxvx 

 trifdis numerofis profundis Jlipite folido fragile, velo fugaceo. 



HARD AGARIC. 



TAB. LXVII. FIG. I. 



'TpHE root confifts of a number of fibres ifluing from the 

 •*• hard comprefled bottom of the ftem. 



The flem is round, folid, two inches high, and of a pale 

 whitifh buff colour. 



The curtain is very delicate and tender; it is white, and 

 breaks and vanifhes in the infancy of the plant. 



The gills are extremely numerous, deep, femioval, and re- 

 gularly arranged in three feries ; they are thin, and of a pale 

 greyiih colour. 



The pileus is convex, even, and fmooth at the rim ; the 

 furface fmooth, of a pale duiky yellow, and feels like vellum •> 

 the fubflance of the whole plant very hard and brittle. 



AGARICUS Jiipitatus, pileo convexo vifcida aurentio, lamellis LXXVIL 

 luteis, Jlipite nudo. Lightfoot, Scot. 1025. aunntius. 



CHERRY AGARIC. 



TAB. LXVII. F I G. II. 



,_ F*HE roct is hard, compreffed, of a brownifh colour, and 

 ■*■ furnifhed with a few fibres. 



The ftem often comprefled and crooked ; it is hollow, of a 

 thin fubflance, eafily fplitting, of a pale yellow within, and a 

 golden or orange colour on the outfide. 



The gills are in three feries, remote, of a tender fubftance, 

 terminating in a narrow point at the bafe, and varying in colour 

 from a pale yellow to an high orange. 



The pileus irregularly cone-fhaped or convex, of a brittle 

 fubftance, glutinous, and when young of a full bright cherry 

 colour, turning pale as it advances in age. 



Grows in dry and barren paftures, frequent, about Halifax, 



