68 An HISTORY of AGARICS, 



LXXVIII. AGARICU3 flipitatus, pileo fubconko pallide-Jiavo margine 

 laceratus. lacerato, lamdiis trifidis latifflmis bafi anguftis, jlipite fjlulofo 



contorto. 



RENT AGARIC. 



TAB. LXVIII. 



THE root, as in mod others, confifts of a tuft of flender 

 foft fibres, ifTuing from the bottom of the flem. 



The Hem is as thick as one's little finger, of a pale clay 

 colour ; the fubftance is thin, and readily fplits in flender fibres ; 

 it is often comprefled, fulcated, or twirled, and is three or four 

 inches high. 



The gills are irregularly arranged, fometimes there are three 

 feries, fometimes only two ; they are extremely broad towards 

 the external extremity, and run out into a narrow point at the 

 bafe ; they are a little waved at the edges, of a tender foft fub- 

 ftance, and a pale, greenifh, yellow hue, or primrofe colour ; 

 prefled between the fingers they turn to a flippery gelly, of no 

 unpleafant fmell. 



The pileus is obtufely cone-fhaped; the furface a pale 

 yellow, dry, fmooth, filky, and mining ; when at maturity it 

 fplits or lacerates, the rents reaching almolt to the centre, 

 the divifions riling up at the rim, and abiding for fome days in 

 an horizontal pofition; it is deftitute of flefh, and diflblves in 

 decay. 



Grows on dry banks and in barren paflures about Halifax, 

 but rarely. 



Though this plant is fometimes deficient in the third feries 

 of gills, it will neverthelefs arrange with thofe of three feries, 

 becaufe it is found with three more frequently than with only 

 two ; every fpecimen having more or fewer of a third feries in 

 i%, and fometimes all three compleat. 



