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Agaricus repandus Hist. 6.
Spreading Agaric.

Agaricus castus

This Agarick grows only in the
thickest parts of moist dark and shady
woods, and is rare in the neighbourhood
of Halifax; I have seen it
in common wood and Woodhouse Wood.

The specimen here figured I gathered
in a wood near Highfield in Ovenden
August the 29th, 1787, -- I call it castus
from an appearence [appearance] of delicasy [delicacy] or chastity
which I thought the plant exhibited,
and which in some degree is, I think,
retained in the Drawing.
        