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very much indeed like the one described by the Rev. M. J. Berkly, in the 

 English Flora, page 107. The one I am about to describe was a very fine 

 specimen, on which the curious monstrous form was growing ; it measured 

 five inches in diameter. The monstrosity was like a smaller specimen, 

 without a stem, and with its back; that is the top of the pileus was growing 

 out on the top of the larger one. But the margin of the monster was distorted 

 and irregular, and the gills were also irregular, and somewhat broken into 

 teeth-like laminae, and placed as it were promiscuously, some one way and 

 some another, in the pileus ; their margins, also, very irregular in form, 

 resembling in miniature the horns of the Moose Deer, without the lower 

 antler; these curious gill-like processes were exactly the same colour as the 

 true gills of the typical form of the species, and also produced spores just 

 the same. 



A. campestris, variety pratensis, of Dr. Badham This is not a common 

 Agaric with us, I think this j)lant has as much right to rank as a species as 

 many others that are called species. It has always a different place of growth 

 from the true species, growing on old clay hedge-banks and margins of wood, 

 in dense tufts. The pileus, too, is always of a brown colour, and the gills 

 are of a much deeper flesh colour, and the veil is also much more dense, Ihe 

 flesh more solid, and harder than in campestris. With these distinctions I 

 think we might venture on calling it a true species. 



A, precox. This is not a very plentiful species, though I have met with 

 several lots of it, and also several varieties, 



A. semiglobatm. Common in rich meadows round Exeter. 



A. ceruginosus. This is also a plentiful species in short grassy meadows 

 and lawns. 



A. lachrymabundus. I have only met with two or three specimens, 



A. fascicularis. Very common on the stumps of old trees, in dense tufts. 



A. callosus. Rare. Two specimens only, in Mr. Pince's Nursery, Exeter. 

 Jan. ]4th, 1853. 



A. fcenisecii. This is also rare ; one or two specimens only I have found, 

 and in the stoves at Messrs. Veitches' Nursery, Exeter. 



A. areolatus. A very distinct species. I met Avith this in the garden of 

 Coaver House, near Exeter. Sept. 1853. 



A. Candollianus. Rare. One specimen only in the stove at Coaver House. 



A. bifrons. Rare. A very pretty little species ; I met with it in an old cow- 

 dung, at Coaver. Nov. 1 3th, 1854. 



A. atomatus. This is a very beautiful little Agaric, found amongst rotten 

 sticks, &c., on the margins of woods. Not common. July 28th, 1853. 



A. corriigis. Rare, in this neighbourhood. 



A. gracilis. Not common. One or two specimens in the grounds of Parker's 

 Well House. Aug. 1854. 



A. semiovatus. Common on dung of animals in meadows round Exeter. 



