CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. Sold and De- 161 
‘current. WHITE. 
‘Ag. velatus, Bot. arr. ed. ii. Fir plantations at Barr, Staf- 
fordshire. ve Sept. 1791. 
Ac. Gills grey white, much branched: pileus convex, vela'tus, 
entirely covered by the membranaceous curtain. 
Sowerby 7-Schaff. 30.1. 2.3.4. 
Gitts somewhat decurrent, whitish, with a mixture of ash-. 
' colour, twice and sometimes oftener branched, so that the 
number counted at the margin is at least four times the 
number counted at the stem. 
‘PrxgUus varies from ash-coloured to brown or yellowish white, 
é Curtain at first clear and transparent, resembling a 
thin bladder, entirely covering the pileus and connectéd with 
the stem, on which it leaves a spurious ring. It remains 
in shreds round the edge of the pileus, and at length 
entirely disappears, ‘This curious kind of curtain seems 
peculiar to this species, srs iad ; 
Stem solid, brown, paler upwards, largest at the bottom. 
Ag. glutinosus. Scheff. and Sowerby. “Pine Groves’ at Ear- 
sham Broome, and Kirby, Norfolk. Mr. Woopwarp.—Planta- 
tions at Packington, Warwickshire, | re 2 eiigg ess 
‘Ac. Gills white, 4 in a-set: pileus reddish brown} woolly cumula‘tus, 
~ ©: and tufted: stem yellow brown or olive, bulbous at 
the base ; Ring woolly, permanent. 
Bolt, 141—Bull. 377, but more of a red cast than our specia 
mens—Bolt, 140, in a less advanced state of growth, 
Guts decurrent, white, edges reddish brown when the seeds 
begin to be discharged ; not very numerous, 4 in a set, 
shortest series very short. 
- Prrzus reddish brown, darkest in the center, convex, from 3 to 
6 inches over, woolly and tufted, edges turned in, but 
cracking with age and turning up, Flesh spongy, white 
thin at the edge. : 
Stem solid, olive brown below, reddish brown above the ring, 
with whitish streaks; 4 to 6 inches high, 1-%dto * inc 
diameter, seldom straight; thickest downwards, bul- 
bous at the base.’ aoe : : 
Ring .permanent, tough, woolly, yellowish white, 
__ turned down on the stem. 
Should this in its younger state appear to be veiled by the 
curtain like the preceding, it may rank only as a variety of that, 
but I have never found it with such an appearance. : 
Ag. annularius. Bull. Ag. congregatus and melleus. Bolt. 
Grove, Edgbaston, on the stumps of trees which. had been cut 
down rather below the level of Si ground, It grew in pro- 
or. IV, 
