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ebur’neus. 
CRYPTOGAMIA! FUNGI) Agaricus ‘Sélid! and De- 
current. WHITE. 
Prrevs white brown, gently convex, turned'up when old, about 
soso tod} inch diameters: ove bs jatdy 
the thickness of a pin. © > 
In Bolton’s figure it does not that the gills are decur- 
rent; Sibthorpe expressly tells‘us they are not, and yet he refers 
to the fig. of Bull. in which they are distinetly so. I suspect it 
will be that two distinct species grow in a similar manner 
on the fallen branches of trees. aig 
Ag. Psendo-androsaceus and Ag. ramealis. Bull. Ag. candi- 
dus. Bolts har) lve ea) bas ah 46 Begs) | 
On sticks, and on the fallen branches of -trees. Oct. 
Srem solid, white, + inch high, 
Ac. (Bot.) Gills white, few, very short, in pairs : pileus 
_ white, convex :*stem white, cylindrical. 
Bull, 188 and \18—-Sowerby 32-Facq. misc. ii, 15. 1-Bolt. 
4, the lower figures ; very small-Mich, 73. 6. 
Giits white, decurrent, not numerous, in pairs. 
Pitsus white, smooth, from 4 to 14 inch diameter, or more, 
convex, or alittle conical, edges turning up when old. 
Stem solid, white, from + to 14 inch high, from the thickness of 
a small crow, to that of a swan’s quill. | , 
This Agaric varies very much in its size, but it has in every 
state the appearance and the feel of ivory. In damp weather 
rather viscid, and in wet seasons 'semi-transparent. When very 
_ young some woolly fibres connect the pileus to the stem in place 
gi gante” us, 
of a curtain. 
Ag. virgineus. Jacq. and Sowerby. Ag.cbhurneus, and ericens. 
Bull. Ag. denticulatus, Bolt. BeeeSesce: co 
Amongst short grass ; often near trees, Edgbaston. = Oct. 
Ac. Gills white, broad, 4 ina set, but.irregular: pileus 
white, rather tapering upwards. 
Buxb. 4, 45 “78 , 
Grits decurrent ; very numerous. 
Pirevs from 4 to 14 inches diameter, turned up when old so as 
to assume the shape of a funnel.” 
Stem solid, 2 to 4 inches high, 1 inch diameter, nearly cylin- 
drical, rounded at the base. , 
Found by Dr. Sibthorpe on Shotover Hill, near Oxford. Oct. 
[And x Mr. Dickenson in a meadow at Blymhill, where it 
eyathifor’- 
mis, 
a fiery ring 17 yards in diameter.] 
Ae. (Buxt.) Gills white, 4 or8 ina set: pileus white: 
glass-shaped : stem white, nearly evlindrical. 
dirty white, funnel-shaped, the edge reflected ; stem 
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