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Agaricus piperatus Hist. 21.
True Pepper Agaric.

Agaricus pungens

This has grown in plenty
this year in North dean and other woods
about Halifax. It abounds with a
milk of a most acrid and burning taste.

It is abundently [abundantly] different from the
common pepper agarick in the shape
and size of the plant[,] in the number[,]
figure and arrangement of the gills[,]
in the colour[,] texture and duration of
its substance[,] agreeing with it in
no circumstance but in yielding an
acrid milk, and yet the two species
have been confounded by writers.
        