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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus, Solid and De2 
~ current, BROWN. : : 
Ac. Gills pale brown, numerous, 4 ina set: pileus cin- 
namon colour, flecked, gently convex but sinking in 
the middle: stem cinnamon, smooth, crooked: 
juice like whey. . 
Bull. 54, nearly resembles it, but the pileus does not sink in 
the middle. : 
Gixts a little decurrent, brown, numerous, in fours, regular. 
Prieus cinnamon colour, fleckered with darker shades ; gently 
convex but a little hollowed in the middle, darkest in the 
a ‘hollow; from 1 to 2 inches diameter, 
Stem solid, smooth, cinnamon coloured, central, crooked, cylin. 
drical, 2 inches high, and 3-8ths diameter. ws 
Juice dilutely milky, not acrid. 
Pastures, Edgbaston. ; Oct. 1790. 
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sero’sus, 
Ac. (Linn.) Gills red brown: pileus dark red brown; lactif‘luus, — 
stem buffy : juice white, milky, mild. , 
Grits decurrent, red brown, but paler than the pileus. — 
Pitgus rich red brown, nearly flat, 4 inches over. 
Srem solid, reddish buff; 2% inches high, 2 inch diameter. 
. Mr. Stracksouss. pie 
_. Ag. stipitatus. Pileo plano carneo lactescente, lamellis rufis, 
stipite longo carneo. Linn, Sp. Pl. 
Srrm 1 to 4 inches high, reddish, somewhat thickest and brown 
at the base, paler and smallerupwards. =) sits 
Piiezus of a deeper colour, from 1 to 4 inches broad, erally 
smooth, flattish but depressed in the centre, and bent in 
at the margin; sometimes marked with one or two Cif. 
cles near the edge. 
Gitts paler than the pileus ; long ones sometimes branched at 
the base. The juice white, at first mild, but leaving a 
pungent taste on the tongue. Mr. Woopwarb. : 
Ag. lactifiuus. Scheff. Sent from Woolhope, Herefordshire, 
by Mr. Sracxnousr.—Pine groves, near Bungay, Suffolk. Mr. 
OODWARD. : z 
Var. 2. Pileus funnel-shaped : stem rich red brown, thinner 
_ downwards, with yellow bristly hairs at the base., 
Grits decurrent, red brown, numerous, 8 ina set, long ones 
sometimes cloven, paler than the pileus; brittle. 
Piteus red brown, funnel-shaped, 2 to 34 inches over. Flesh 
spongy, thin, reddish white... 4 . ae 
Stem solid, rich ted brown, redder than the pileus, tapering 
downwards, redder at the base, and set with bristly hairs, 
often crooked and eccentric, 2 inches high, 3-10ths 
diameter, a ; e 
