GROWING about HALIFAX. 73 



AGARICUS acaulis ereftus planus ; lamellis trifidis lanceolatls . 

 FLAT AGARIC. 



TAB. LXXIL F I G. III. 



THIS is of a femicircular figure, the margin waved, the fur- 

 face fmooth, of a brownifh moufe colour, and marked 

 near the edge with three or four narrow concentric lines, of a 

 darker colour. 



The gills are arranged in three feries ; they are thin, pliable, 

 lance-fhaped, and the fame colour as the pileus. The fubftance 

 is foft and tender. 



Of this plant I found many fpecimens, growing erect on 

 the ground, in a fteep field by the footway leading from Elland 

 to Mills-Bridge, in October, 1787. 



LXXXV. 



planus. 



AGARICUS acaulis, lamellis labyrinthiformibus. Sp. PI. 1648. LXXXVl. 



_ _ _ quercinus, 



OAK AGARIC. 



TAB. LXXIII. 



/ *T" r HIS plant in the firft ftages of growth is of a circular figure, 

 ■** a.b. growing flat, with the gills upwards j the gills at this 

 time are diftinct and branched, their fides united by fmall lateral 

 projections, which are hardly vifible to the naked eye : as it ad- 

 vances in growth a part of the iide which has adhered to the 

 wood, and is hairy, c. gradually feparates from it, and takes 

 an horizontal pofition ; after this the horizontal part con- 

 tinues to grow and increafe, d. the other part ferving.it as a 

 bale : in procefs of time, the fmall Literal projections increafe in 

 growth, fo as to be equal with the gills in height and fubftance, 

 thereby filling up the interftices, and transforming the gills 

 into oblong pores. It varies greatly in fize, from three to ten 

 or twelve inches diameter, is perennial, of a woody nature, and 

 a brownifh cork colour ; when old the furface becomes fmooth, 

 as at e. and the concentric circles more eminent. 



This plant makes the link by which the Agaric 7 and Boleti 

 are naturally united ; and may with equal propriety be efleemed 

 the laft of the one, or the firft of the other. 



END of the AGARICS, 



