“492 CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI, Agaricus. Solid. and De- 
Sy current. WHITE. . i 
digious quantities; in some places as many together as would 
have filled half a bushel. ty TA DGhe 
Var, 2. Gills 4 or 8 ina set, by their decurrence streaking 
the top of the stem quite down to the ring; pileus wrinkled or 
plaited at the edge. - WAS ets ae 
FI, dan. 1013-Scheffi 740° 
"This differs very little from the preceding, but from being 
less crowded in its growth assumes a more perfect form. By 
the more full expansion of. the pileus some of the long gills sepa- 
rate from the stem, which causes the appearance of § ina set in 
those parts ; and indeed. in this species the extent of the decur- 
rence of the long gills.is very variable... The discharge of the 
seeds which tinges the edges of the gills, the ring, and the top 
of the stem of a rich red brown, ‘seems always to begin in that 
‘part of the gill next to the stem... In the young and unexpanded 
plants or buttons the pileus is covered with a knap or frize of a 
rown glutinous wool, and the colour is that of an olive. 
_ Ag. obscurus. Scheff. Ag. melleus. Fl, dan, _ Edgbaston 
lanes, on sandy hedge banks. : ‘ Rs : ac yA Oct. 
Var. 3. Very large; stem full 1 inch diameter, both it and 
the curtains tinged with bright yellow. Mr. SrackHoust. 
_ aoralloi'des. *Ac.- (Scop.) “Gills-whitish, small, few: pileus tawny 
red, convex; smooth: stem whitish, thickest in the 
middle, ane : 
, Battar. 9, F—-Scop. subi. 350. * 
Guts decurrent, thinly set. 
Pixevus brownish, + of an inch over. . 
Srem solid, dirty white, 2 to 3 inches high, 2 of an inch dia- 
meter. One root sends out several stems, and also seve- 
ral jagged substances, the imperfect rudiments of other 
stems. Scop. Barrar. Dicxson fasc. 1. 16. 
In hollow trees. Be : : Oct. 
au‘reus, Ac. Gills white, yery short: pileus aie e buff, tufted, 
semi-globular : stem buff. : 
Bull. 92. 
‘Giuts decurrent, white, very short, 4 in a set. 
Piteus orange buff, globular when young, semi-globular when 
eapended 2 inches diameter, thinly sprinkled with small 
its of dark hair. Flesh uncommonly thick, buff c 
Curtaiz white. ’ 
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