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_“alntost black at’ thé’base?’ about 3° itiches high; ‘hot thicker 
than. 4 ap ge pti cai 
Ag. androsaceus. Lriw. “Ag, epiphy lus. “Bors 
¥ Packington Park, amongst ihoss, 7" ate ae * © Autumn, 
; Feast atti ny me Sloat: ai "Ty : 
collaria‘tus. M. Gillswhite, uniform, fixed to'acollar'surrounding the 
stem: pileus white, skinny, dimpled* stem. white 
__ above, black below.) > = Jed a eee 
+ Bull. 64-Bolt. 32-Fl. danv1 134. 1-Schaff. 239-Mich.74.5. 
Gris loose, from the stem, but fixed to a band or collar sur- 
rounding the top of the stem, but at some distance from 
it; white, yellowish brown with age, uniform, from 17 
' Pireus white, convex, dimpled, ribbed at the sides, thin, 
_ skinny, 1-Sth to 3-Sths of an inch over. 
Stem hollow, scored, white above, dark mouse or almost black 
_ below, 1 to 3 inches long, not thicker than a pin. 
It does not appear by Mr. Bolton’s figure or description 
whether the gills are fixed toa collar, of tothe stem, but be 
that as it may, ours is certainly the plant of M. Bulliard, 
quoted above, though he says the stem is solid, and calls it the 
_ Ag. androsaceus of Linneus, but that is a very different plant, 
and had he given a dissected drawing, he would not have found 
_ the stem solid. ‘The gills are carelessly done both by Scheffer 
se and Bolton, and in the latter the dimple in the centre of the 
~~ is not expressed. ‘The plant at first is entirely white, 
t it dries, remains a long time, and gradually changes its co- 
Jour to a yellow brown, the stem becoming quite black. 
Ag. collariatus. Bot. arr. ed. ti. Ag. androsaceus of Schaffer ; 
Hudson, Lightfoot, Relhan, Bolton, &c. but not of Linnzus, 
Scopoli, or Haller. Ray Sy. 9.49. © 
_ Growing upon dry sticks in hedge bottoms; not sen POS 
buccina'lis. M. Gills white, decurrent; pileus white, funnel-shaped : 
_ Stem white, very short.” ie ghoae 
i | Batsch. 214. 
- Gills decurrent, white, few, 4 in a set, but irregular; larger 
ones: about 12. — Piles white, thin, leather-like, waved and 
cracking at the edge, hollow in the centre, scarcely } an inch 
diameter. _ Stem solid, white, crooked, 4 of an inch high, 
thick as a large pin, but gradually thicker upwards until it is in- 
sensibly lost in the pileus. Ag. duccinalis. Batsch. 
_ In the garden and amongst grass, at Packington, Warwick- 
shire, the seat of the Right Honourable the Earl of Aylesford. 
