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fra'grans. 
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ORYPTOGAMIA: FUNGI. Agaticus, (Solid aiid De- 
current: Wruttr. 
itis ‘brown white, darker’ fn ‘the centre,’ flat, but a little 
bossed ; turned down; 1# to 23 inches: oyer, very 
“viscid. Flesh white, pithy. 
Stem solid, pithy, white within and without, 3 inghes high, 
i 2 “inch diameter," Resid —— seldom 
<9 gate: straight. ou3t 
“The pure milk whiteness of x 3 alles remains .unchariged dur- 
ing the life of the plant, ‘The viscidity of the pileus increases — 
by ‘keeping sO as to become uncommonly adhesive. Growing 
ngle, or in clusters. — 
Red Rock Aven ig Edgbaston. i fRRORDA TEAM, 
set aySlis ete cf 
a Gills whats 4 inaset: pileus een whitey semi- 
enecperend : stem brown white. 
ee og et FP o Somerby, dD. : 
This Ristici is by no meéaris uncommon with: us, lel if it 
_ grow i Other parts, it is matter of surprise that it should have 
remained urimoticed’ so Jong. It imparts a fragrant odour like 
that of new mown hay. Its colour approaches “nearly to our 
gee notion of a stone colour, afd “does not vary throughout 
the different parts of the plant. The transparency’ of the pileus 
shewing the form of the Gills through i its surface, it might be 
called striated, as’ well as’ -other fleshless Agarics’; but this dis- 
tinction, when it ‘does ‘not arise from colour, or some peculiar 
structure of the eg itself, is with more erent omitted, 
Major Vetirys 9 | 
Giits slightly deceaetti not-very numerous, 2 or 4s. in a set. 
Pitzus dead brown ' white, smooth, .gently convex, but_ rather 
dimpled i in the centre, becoming hollow with age but not 
= von) turnin: oe the ASC !o0t o> de aid 
Sten ‘solid,.: yi cylindrical, dead brown: white, 2 to.2 
» dnches highs thick as a crow.or a goose, quill. 
The- Pileus is' not always so transparent as.to shew the Gills 
dhistygtats “The cupping of the pileus.as._ the plant grows old 
tears the gills near the place of their. attachment to the stem. It 
smells like Hawthorn in. blossom, and its scent is so strong that 
’ . jib amayibe perceived at a considerable, sapsaiaes even before you 
om 
see the plant... 
oe g the firs on asearan Downe near e548 ‘Viaj. Ves: 
LEY. ston Park, under Spanish Chesnut Taste 
umbrac’u- Ac. ABarscn, ) Gills dirty white, 4 in.a set : pilens cool 
lun. 
Ct wn, conical, scored; stem cool , brown, Zane 
drical, cottony at the bottom. | 
F saci PA Sc cciit hen 
Gites a little — dirty white, 4 in a set, ieee ‘numerous. 
