
          (3)

Agaricus politus Hist. 30.

Polished Agaric.

Tab: 3.

This beautifull [beautiful] Agaric I found
the 17th of September 1783, growing on the
bare ground under the thick plantation
of Fir<s>r</s> Trees behind the House at LeeBridge.

The Hat of a Glaucus Green Dry and Glossy,
the gills were in three series, and were
guarded from the attack of Insects, and from
the air, till the parts *[margin insert at bottom of page] of fructification had
performed their office and the seeds were
perfected, by a kind of semivolva or
Operculum, extended from the upper part
of the stem to the rim of the Hat. This Operculum
is of a thin & flimsy substance like
a spiders web, and when the seeds are perfected,
breaks from the rim of the hat, is
partly Dispersed in air, and partly <s>ha</s> hangs
in rags at the place of its insertion on [illegible] stem.

Agaricus glauconitidus.

[margin insert begins]* I Believe every Agaric to be an Hermaphrodite
and to contain within itself both Male & Female
principals.[margin insert ends]
        