An History of Fungusses, growing about Halifax (Vols 1-2)

II. latus.

Agaricus stipitatus pileo convexo fusco, lamellis trifidis latissimis carneo pallidis. original: "Stalked Agaric with a convex brown cap, and very broad, three-parted, pale flesh-colored gills."

THE root is a little swelled, or approaching to a bulbous figure; it is hard and firm if pressed between the fingers, of a white color within, and of a dry, brittle substance; it is covered on the outside with innumerable downy fibers, by means of which it brings up a covering of the mold, among which it grows, when it is gathered. It produces one plant only, and has no volva A cup-like structure at the base of some mushrooms..

The stem is round, upright, firm, solid, and is easily divisible into fine, shining, silky filaments. It is about the size of one’s middle finger and four inches high. Its color is a dusky white on the outside and a silver-white within; it has no curtain A veil-like membrane protecting the gills of an immature fungus..

The gills are in three series—broad, deep, and large, as expressed at A. They are numerous, thin, and pliable; they are white and faintly tinged with a kind of dusky flesh color.

The pileus The cap of a mushroom. is from four to seven inches in diameter, of a smooth, dry substance; it feels like fine woolen cloth and is a kind of brownish mouse-color. The substance of the flesh is brittle, spongy, and a fair white. This plant differs from the A. integer The species described on the previous page. in that the gills are in three series; it differs from the A. muscarius and A. annulatus in having neither a volva nor a curtain.

It grows under old woodpiles and among rotten sawdust in September and October.