CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Merulits, _ 145 
Grits fixed, white, mostly in pairs in the small, in fours in 
the larger plants, long ones about 18. , 
Pitevs white, convex,.a little bossed,. sides plaited, very. thin 
and semi-transparent, 4 to 2 of an inch over. 
Stem hollow, whitish, smooth, 2 to 24 inches high, not thicker 
than a horse-hair in the smaller plants, nearly as thick as 
-acrow quillin the larger. | 
__ Ag..stipitatus, pileo.plicato membranaceo, lamellis basi lati- 
oribus. F/. suec. 1192. Ray Syz. p. 9.m. 46, 
The delicate structure of this plant causes it to tremble 
when held in the Hand; as Haller/has observed. © The ileus has 
sometimes a little mouse-colour in its centre, and so has the stem 
in the larger plants towards the bottom. It dries when old, 
and then turns wholly of a brownish colour. Mr. Stackhouse 
once found, and figured one specimen with a ring on the stem.— 
Tt is sometimes very minute. Stem not 4 inch high, and a 
pileus not larger than the head of a pin. Baron Haller, Miche- 
lius, and others, are inaccurate in describing this species as stri- 
ated. ‘That character, strictly speaking, ought to imply cer- 
tain streaks or marks inherent in the pileus, whereas the striz 
which they aflude to, are nothing more than the edges of the 
gills appearing plainly through, 
Ag. stipitatus, pileo plicato membranaceo, lamellis basi la- 
tioribus. Linn. and Huns. 621.—Ag. candidus. Huns. 620. 
Ag. umbelliferus. Linn. but the gills being of the same sub- 
stance as the pileus, and therefore, like the Chanterelle, not pro- 
perly an Agaric. Mr. Woopwarp. Ag. corticalis, Bull. Ag. 
umbelliferus, Bolt, 
Common in hedge bottoms and amongst moss, attached to 
dead leaves and half rotten sticks, Oct.—Noy,. 
ed Syn. t. 1. f. 2. a. a. can hardly be shewn tobe different 
this, ; : " os 
M. Gills white, decurrent: pileus white, convex, centre androsa'ceus 
depressed : stem red brown below, shining. 
Vaill. xi. 24, 21. 22. 23—( Bocce. muse. 143. t, 104; is alse 
quoted by Linneus.)—Bull, 569. 2. oN 2 
Gills extremely thin. Pileus membranaceous, plaited. Stem 
black, very slender. Liyn.—Vaillant observes that his figures 
resent the largest sized specimens; that the gi//s are few, 
white, very distant from one another ; the pileus white, and so 
thin that the gills seem to pass aries | it; the stems solid, 
smooth, rather shining, dark coloured, Vaiut. par. p. 69. 
Gi118 somewhat decurrent, white, few, mostly in pairs, 
Piievs brownish white, flat, the edge turned down, the centre 
ne ; very thin and semi-transparent, nearly ¢ inch 
lameter, e 
Stem solid, white at the top, shining and purplish brown below, 
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