
          (96)

Agaricus villosus. Hist. 42
Shaggy Agaric.

Ag lepupedis

This Agaric grew in great plenty in
a little Wood call'd [called] Ramsden four Miles Northwest
of Halifax October ye 30th, 1786. It grows
in the dry and steep part of the Wood near the
Roots of Oak Trees.

Stem solid, and fibrose when broke, of
equal thickness till near the Root where it
swells a little, the Pileus is covered with a
thick dawny Nap, -- the partial Volva or curtain
is white as light and delicate as a
spiders web, and when newly torn by the
gradual expansion of the pileus, hangs
pendent from its verge in dawny fragments.
        