GROWING about HALIFAX. 6g 



AGARICUS Jlipitatus, pileo convexo acuminata grifeo, lamellis LXXIX. 

 convexis grifeis crenatis Jiipite nndo. Sp. PL 1642, 15. mammo/m. 



BREAST AGARIC. 



TAB. LXIX. 



/ T^HE root confifts of black hard fibres, ifluing from the ob- 

 •*■ tufe bafe of the ftem ; it is folitary, and fuftains one plant 

 only. 



The ftem is upright, round, hard, firm, and folid; of a grey 

 brown above, paler near the root ; half an inch in diameter, 

 and four or five inches high j the fubftance within is white, 

 and eafily fplits in fine flender filaments. 



The gills are arranged in three feries, very broad, of a pel- 

 lucid fubftance, and a pale dufky grey, with a tinge of nefh 

 colour : their figure approaches to a femicircle, the bafe not 

 touching the ftem j they are waved on the edges near the ex- 

 .tremity ; near the bafe they are crenated. In the fpecimen before 

 me, there is one manifeft dent or tooth towards the bafe, in 

 thofe of the firft feries ; in thofe of the fecond and third no 

 dent or tooth, but only a gentle waving. 



The Pileus is convex, terminating in a nipple-like beak or 

 point at top; the colour is conftantly of a dufky grey, with a 

 tinge of reddifti brown ; and the furface looks and feels like 

 fine woollen cloth : it is about three inches diameter in a full 

 grown plant, and is deftitute of flefti, except juft under the 

 beaked top where the ftem is inferted ; it diflblves in decay. 



This fpecimen grew in Bracken-Bed-Wood, near Halifax, 

 September 1, J787. 



