
          (142)

Agaricus domesticus. Hist. 6.
Domestic Agaric. House Agaric.

Agaricus laceratus

This is an extremely tender plant
springs up in the space of one night is
perfected and fallen before noon the succeeding
day -- the gills are numerous close
and in one series melting in a black &
inky fluid which falls off in drops and
presently turns to a sooty powder,
the pileus is covered with a glutend
and scabbed with the fragments of a broken
Volva. It grew on the end of a decay'd [decayed]
beam in a cellar in Halifax July ye 15, 1787.
        