CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI) Agaricus. ‘Solid and De» 153 
. current. Wuire: 
Ball. 248, A.=Bolt. V7=-Scha fs 207, ill coloured yf. 35° the 
best.—ib. 39, more fleshy than our specimens. — z 
Gixts white, narrow, very decurrent ; 4 in a set in the younger, 
_ ~~ but 8 in the older specimens, from the greater extension 
~~ Of every other long one down the stem. 
Piieus white, satiny, 1 to 2 inches over, irregular at its edge, 
~ Often tearing as it expands; , flattish when: young, and not 
~~ “always hollow as Burtiiarp says. Edges are at first 
turned down, even though the central part be much hol- 
lowed, but at length they turn up, the whole plant in 
. that state greatly resembling a drinking glass. 
Stem solid, white, 1 to 2 inches hich, thick as a swan’s quill, 
rather thickest upwards, seldom quite central. a 
Ag. cyathiformis. Bull. Ag. umbilicatus. Bolt. and Schef. 
Pastures, Edgbaston. Aug. 
Var. 2. Pileus and stem buff-colour. 
Bull. 248.Be S 
Pileus without flesh, deeply hollowed. Stem 21 inches high. — 
Woolhope ;' Beckbury Hill, Herefordshire, not uncommon. 
Aug. Mr. Sracxuousr. Bulliard in his pl. 575 has figured 
several other varieties which I have not seen. ') © 
Ac, Gills white: pileus white, bossed, centre yellowish : ni'tens, 
___ stem whitish buff, very long. ~ Stag 
takes Scheff. 238, not good. 
Giits decurrent, white, few, short, in pairs. 
Piteus white, boss yellowish, at first conical, then flat, lastly 
inverted; 2 inches diameter. 2° = 00 8 
Stem solid, whitish buff, bending, 3 inches high or more, full 
—— diameter, oe be rae ee = 
__ . Whole plant very viscid, but drying immediately when ga- 
thered. Norw ahendding its size and the »great length Ge 
a8 I suspect it to be only an unusually large plant of the Ag. 
eburneus, id pie 
Ag. nitens. Scheff. not of Fl.‘dan. In Packington Park, 
Warwickshire. eee . ~ > Autumn. 
Ac. (Buxt.) Gills watery* white, pellucid, narrow, 4 infundib’u- 
or 8 in a set: pileus funnel-shaped, brownish-buff: lifor’mis, 
Bull. 286—Bolt. 61-Sterbeck 15. B. B. very like it, but the yo 
- stem too short and too thick. 
By watery white, is meant, that kind of appearance which is given 
to white linen or paper by wetting it; pete oomga eon 
sity of the whiteness, but increasing the transparency, The term 
likewise bEsecaatonatly aaa to express a similar effect on other colours. 
