CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI Meili: 147. 
- depressed: stem light brown, stiff. » | 
Grits fixed, light brown, few, in pairs. fim fs 
Piveus light brown, slightly convex, centre rather darker, and 
depressed, scored from the gills appearing through, tear- 
ing at the edge, full ¢ of an inch diameter, = = 
Stem solid, light brown, stiff, 3 to 2 inch high, not thicker 
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M. Gills few, light-brown + pileys light browny:centre fus'cus. 
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M. Stem solid, often compressed : gills decurrent, braneh- Cantharel’- 
~ ed, anastomosing. H OG jo bas abooW lug. 
Bull, 62= Bolt. 62-Batsch. 120-Schef. 82. 9062 Fe B. iii, 
© 832-FL dan. 20—-Vaill. xi. ©. 10. 11.144 15—Battar. 
14. A. B, C,—Batsch. 37-Ger. 1384. 2-Trag. 94C- 
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Grits decurrent, fleshy, branched, anastomosing. Substance 
the same as that of the:stem and the pileus; very different 
, . from the gills of Agarics. In the microscope they appear 
covered with very minute granulated particles. hind, 
Prteus concave, curled’at the edge, often ve ry irregular, 1 to 3 
_ © inches over. ““R/esh’ spongy, whitish, = sed 
Stem solid, tapering downwards, often compressed, and then 
“* Yarely centtal ; 1 to < inches’ high, {to 3 ofan inch in 
~ -S- diameter. HGR gib 2 
Oss. Whole plant yellow as the yolk of an egg: Tt does 
not soon rot and decay as the Agarics do, nor is it much Jiable 
to the attacks -of insects. It is very apt to be sportive and 
- Monstrous in its growth, as may be seen in the following 
figures, Batsch. 34, fan-shaped, Vaill, 12. 13, very much 
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__Pileus turban-shaped, flattish, edge mostly bent in. , Gills 
deep yellow, short, naked. Lisx.—Colour mostly pale yellow, 
sometimes deep yellow, and even saffron coloured. Ray Syn. 2, 
n. 3.—It is remarkable that this plant, which univetsally takes 
the lead in the genus Agaricus, most certainly does not belong 
to that genus; having no regular gills, but only projecting veins 
variously branched and anastomosing, but of the same substance 
as the pileus ; they ‘much’ resemble the veins of the Peziza cor 
nucopioides and P. aéetabulum. The mode in which this plant 
discharges its seed does not appear to be known, It seems to | 
“pproach néarer'to an Helvella than to an Agaric. Perhaps this gre 
plant, the Ag. infundibuliformis of Bolton, (which seems to be 
Ag. comucopioides of Bulliard,)»Agz candidus of Hudson, and 
the 2 Pezize above mentioned, ought to,form a new genus. Mr. 
Woopwaxn.—Pilexs, hollow, undulated,; and. fringed at the 
