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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. Solid and De- 
current. Brown. 
“expanded the whole turned up and quite funnel-shaped: 
Flesh spongy, yellowish white, : cagae 
SreM rich yellow brown, cylindrical or tapering, 13 to 3 inches 
high, and half inch diameter, = 
Gills rather paler than the pileus. Stem yellowish at the 
base, the colour of the gills upwards. Mr. Woopwarp. Pileus 
varying from.deep chocolate to chesnut ; darkest in the centre, 
with sometimes a few scales. Stem generally tapering. 
This is a very common species, growing in numerous circular 
patches under shady trees. ed : 
Ag. cinnamomeus. Bolt. Woods neat Bath. Powick, Worces- 
_térshire. Mr. Sracxnousr:—Hedge banks, Castle-bromwich. 
rubes’cens, 
Mr. Woopwarp.—Pine Grove, Kirby, Norfolk. Edgbaston, 
under large oaks and beeches. Aug.— Dec, 
Var 2. Gills 4 to $8 in a set: pileus concave, dotted. 
a Scheff. 259, 
Gixts decurrent, from cinnamon to chesnut, paler than the stem, 
tas numerous, 2 long gills often united near the stem, and 
then they include only one intermediate gill, with a little 
tooth on each side. ; 
Prieus from full cinnamon to chesnut, dotted with little pits, 
the central part concave, and the edge turning up with 
age. e 
Stem solid, brown cinnamon, crooked, thinnest downwards, ¢ 
to 2 inches high, 3-sths diameter. 
FA. dan. 1011, (cyathiformis) is by Mr. Vahl referred to 
the above species of Scheffer, but the Danish plant is described 
as having a woolly pileus, and is figured with a hollow stem, 
whereas Schzeffer expressly says that his plant has a solid stem. 
Ag. cyathiformis. Scheff. Pastures, Edgbaston, Oct. 
Ac, (Scn#rrer.) Gills reddish brown, 8 in a set: pileus 
reddish brown, with darker concentric circles. 
_ FI. dan. 1069. 2-Scheff. 73. 
Giixs decurrent, reddish brown, narrow, 8 in a set.. 
Piteus reddish brown, marked with concentric circles of 4 
darker shade; in general flat, but hollow in the centre, 
and waved and bent down at the edge, clothy to the 
touch, 13 to 3 inches diameter; sloping, __ 
Stem solid, reddish brown, whitish within, 1 to 3 inches long ; 
near ¢ inch diameter, nearly cylindrical, but rather thin- 
_ her downwards, apc 4 eccentric, 
Juice white like milk, hot and acrid like that of Mezereon 
or Cuckowpint. . 
Ag. rubescenis. Scheff. Plantations, and pool dam, Edgbas- — 
ton, in a clayey soil. - Sept. 
