
          (150)

Agaricus purpureus. Hist. 41. f. B.
Purple Agaric.

Agaricus lividus

This Agaric has the Pileus
of a purple livid colour the first day
of its appearance, the second it changes
to a dusky straw colour and the third becomes
horizontal falls & perishes.

It grows abundently [abundantly] amongst
the fallen and decay'd [decayed] Fir<s>r</s> leaves in
all the Plantations about Halifax in
the Month of August.
        