CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. ‘Solid and De- 
current,. WHITE, 
diameter ; generally eccentric. 
The juice white like milk, hot and acrid, but not properly 
POPPE Y= ie a eer 
Under large beach trees, plantations, Edgbaston. Oct. 
Var. 3. Gills yellow white, numerous, and narrow: pileus 
white, oblique. - iLy afl 1 f 
Battar. 17. 4 chef. 83—Batsch. 5057 
Ag. piperatus, Batsch. In woods, Woolhope, Herefordshire. 
Mr. SrackHouse. bch clas sail roe ee 
Var. 4. Gills white: pileus buff, with yellow brown con- 
centric circles. | ; scat =~ 
Stem solid, white, inversely conical, uw inch long, 7 toz inch 
Bull. 104. 
,, Gills decurrent, white, very numerous, mostly 4 in a set. 
Pileus hollow in the centre, edge turned down ; 3 to 4 inches 
over, Stem white, tapering downwards, rounded at the end, 1 
to 14 inch high, and the same in diameter. Juice milky, 
abundant, very acrid. Buntiarp. Gills white, in age turning 
faintly yellow. —Pilevs when young cushion-shaped, and the 
margin rolled in, but even then it is always renee the 
centre; surface somewhat velvety, strongly marked with con- 
centric lines of a fulvous colour. Mr. Woopwarp, 
In groves, or amongst bushes ona clayey soil near Bungay. 
Mr. Woopwarp. 
Var. 5. Pileus greenish brown, flecked and gluey 
a a little decurrent, ees in a-sete21226.> ; 
ILEus flat, rather depressed, turned in, greenish brown, 
flecked and gluey, 22 inches weyers: 2 delgauk 
cylindrical, not quite central. — Milk white. » 
In Lord Aylesford’s Park at Packington.” _ Autumn. 
Very like the Ag. prasinus of Scheffer, but differs in the 
colour of the gills and in having a milky juice. Bulliard’s plate 
591, called Ag. orcella, may possibly be other varieties. 
Besides the above, I shall introduce to the acquaintance of 
the reader several other Agarics with milky juice, some mild, 
some acrid, which inadvertently, or as it would seem merely 
from the resemblance of the juice, have been seek belong 
to one or other of the two lactescent species of Linn: 
Sram solid, white, about 2 inches high, near an inch diameter, — 
157 
he Gills pure white, 4 in a set : pileus brown white, the adbeesi’vus, 
centre darker: stem white, gently tapering up- 
wards. i pore 
Gitus moderately decurrent, very white, not crowded, 4 ina 
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