GROWING about HALIFAX. 71 



AG ARICUS ftipitatus, pileo campanulato obtufo fufco flavifcente^ lamellis I-XXXI. 

 atro-grifeis,ftipitefiftulofogrifeovillofo. Hudjon AngL 619,36. ajuofiu. 



WATERY AGARIC. 



TAB. LXXI. FIG. I. 



THE whole plant, while young, is wrapped up in a foft dawny 

 covering, which breaks and falls off, when the fpecimen has ac- 

 quired about half its height; it firft vanifhes on the pileus, abiding 

 longer on the ftem, to which it gives a woolly appearance. 



The ftem is an inch high, fiftular, and of a dufky white. 



The gills are in three feries, white at firft, and turning brown in 

 decay. 



The pileus is glutinous, bell-fhaped, of a pale dufky yellow, and 

 fmooth furface ; the whole plant is of a tender, watery, pellucid, fub- 

 ftance. 



In 1784, fpecimens of this plant, in an advanced ftate, were 

 brought me, growing on putrid wood, found under the fprinklings of 

 the ftream of Elm-Cragg-tVell, at Bell-Bank, near Bingley ; and I faw it 

 in the fame place, in all its ftates, in April, 1788. 



Agarics, halved, not fupported on a central Jlem. 



AGARICUS fubftipitatus, -pileo albido levi, lamellis fubfimplicibus LXXXII. 

 pallidis Jlipite later alt. Hudjon Angl. 624, 51. lattralis. 



LATERAL AGARIC. 



TAB. LXXI. F I G. II. 



THIS plant adheres fometimes by the fide of the pileus, fometimes 

 by a fhort lateral foot-ftalk to decaying branches and trunks of 

 trees. 



The pileus is convex, fmooth, and of a pale dufky buff colour; 

 the fize is from one to two inches diameter ; the fubftance tough and 

 elaftic. 



The gills in young plants fimple, in thofe of older growth bifid; 

 they are numerous, tough, and of a pale brownifti buff colour. 



The figure on plate 71, is an exact reprefentation of the plant, as 

 it grew on the decaying ftock of an elm tree, in Auguft, 1779. 



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