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154. 
_ obe’sus, 
CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. ‘Solid and De- 
current, WHItTE. 
Gixts very decurrent, white, numerous, narrow, thin, tender, 
brittle, the long ones often forked. ares: + 
Pitevs brown buff, thin, pellucid, tender, smooth, hollow in the 
_ centre, convex and turned down at the edge; 1} to3 
~ inches over: in the ‘small plants the edge is even, but 
_ in the larger ones very much plaited or curled. . 
Stem solid, brown buff, striated, disposed to twist, nearly 
~ eylindrical, white within, 13 to 24 inches high, from 
_ the thickness of a crow’s, to that of a swan’s quill. 
Ag. Ee cipesrane Bull. Ag. fimbriatus. Bolt. . Planta- 
tions, Edgbaston, after much rain. - a 
Var, 2. Gills but little decurrent, turning to a watery jelly 
when bruised. . Pileus. dead. white, thin, funnel.shaped : stem 
white, smooth, tough, pellucid. : 
Bolt. 61. 
In the Park at Packington. 
Ag. (Batscx,) Gills white, greatly decurrent, branching 
_ and inosculating ; pileus white, nearly flat: stem 
_ white, very thick, short, mversely. conical. 
Bartsch. 216-Scheff.307 3 too much coloured. 
Grxts white, numerous ; very narrow, so decurrent as to unite 
the pileus and the stem into one uniform substance. In 
eneral there is a short anda long gill alternately, some- _ 4 
times there are 4 ina set, but the long ones frequently 
divide into two as they approach the edge of the pileus, 
and moreover the branches unite one to another so as to 
form a kind of net-work. — 
Pizeus white, turning brown, smooth; at first a button, then 
growing flat, at length the edges: rise’ so as to form a 
shallow concavity at the top, but the extreme edges still 
turned. down, Diameter i ; to i 4 inch. 
Stem solid, white, widening so much upwards as to be nearly 
equal to the breadth of the pileus ; often flatted ; about 
3 inch high. Reet none but the rounded end of the 
stem. 
Ag. claveformis. Scheff. Ag. obesus. Batsch, Pastures 
amongst moss. Edgbaston, Aug. 170. 
*Var. 2. Pileus pale dead brown, violet coloured at the edge: 
Bolt, 146, ~ 3 
On stumps of trees, Northowram. Ang. 1791. Bott. 
_. GenveXs stem whitish, conical, crooked. 
Batsch 02, (but a little different in the calaur of the Pilews./ 
- pistilla’ris. Ac. Gills white, in pairs, very short: pileus whitish, 
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