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Agaricus muscarius. Hist. 27
Fly Agaric

This I gathered in Birks near Halifax
close by the Watergate Septr. [September] 23, 1786.

The Pileus is sometimes in this species <s>covered</s>
covered with a kind of loose gr<s>a</s>eyish
scales, which are the fragments of a general
Volva, but as these fragments only adhere to
imperfect and sickly plants, and as my specimen
had them not, I chose to imitate just
what was before me. The stem is solid and the
root a bulb, the Gills & Curtain white.
        